Name: Lightning Strike in South Carolina, June 26, 2002
Start: 2002-06-26T18:00
End: 2002-06-26T18:00
Location: South Carolina

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $5,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 26, 2:35 PM EST, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 2:35 PM EST, 3 hours 25 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
335 PM EDT WED JUN 26 2002

QUITE A BIT OF CONVECTION ERUPTED ACROSS THE CWFA TODAY...AND IS
STILL ONGOING. WILL USE LIKELY EVENING WORDING...XCPT FOR NC MTNS
WHERE SCT SHOULD DO. CONVECTION SHOULD TAPER OFF AND EVEN END
OVERNIGHT.

DEEP MOISTURE EXITS THE AREA THU...BUT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND
INSTABILITY REMAINS. LEE TROF WILL PROVIDE ENOUGH LOW LEVEL
CONVERGENCE FOR SCT CONVECTION. WARMER TEMPS WITH SUNSHINE AND HIER
THICKNESSES. LEFT SMALL POP FOR EVENING CONVECTION THU NITE.

FRIDAY SFC FNT APPROACHES AND MIGHT MOVE INTO THE AREA BY LATE DAY.
AVN BRINGS UPR DIV BULLS EYE OVER THE AREA WHILE OTHER MDLS DO NOT.
ETA/AVN BOTH RETURN DEEPER MOISTURE AND KEEP DECENT LOW LEVEL
CONVERGENCE AND INSTABILITY OVER THE AREA. WILL UP POP OVER MTNS
WHERE PRECIP CHC BETTER. HOWEVER IF AVN VERIFIES...POPS WILL NEED TO
BE MUCH HIER. AVN STALLS FNT OVER AREA FRI NITE/SAT...SO WILL
CONTINUE WITH POPS ALL CWFA.

REST OF EXTENDED TRICKY. FNT OVER OR JUST SOUTH OF CWFA. WAVE FORMS
ALONG FNT. SOME MOISTURE PUSHES BACK OVER THE AREA. HOWEVER LOW
POSITION MEANS DOWNSLOPE WIND FOR SOME AREAS. ALSO INSTABILITY
MARGINAL EVEN WITH MOISTURE. ALSO BEST UPPER DIV/LOW LEVEL CONV TO
OUR EAST AND SOUTHEAST. THEREFORE HAVE DECIDED TO KEEP SUN THRU WED
DRY FOR NOW...ESP SINCE ENSEMBLE POPS ARE BELOW CLIMO THRU THAT
PERIOD.

GSP   70  89  70  87 /  40  40  30  40
AND   70  89  70  87 /  40  40  30  40
CLT   70  89  70  87 /  50  40  30  40
HKY   69  87  69  86 /  50  40  30  40
AVL   65  84  65  81 /  40  40  40  50

.GSP...
GA...NONE.
NC...NONE.
SC...NONE.

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The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 95 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:59 UTC.

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Event by event

1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.

Lightning, York

When: June 26, 6:00 PM EST
Where: York County, Rock Hill
Property damage: $5,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 34.975, -81.184 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Lightning struck a house and caused a small fire.

What these are

Lightning: A lightning strike that killed, injured or caused damage.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in South Carolina in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in South Carolina, June 2002

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5305886.