1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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 30, 2:53 PM EST, 4 hours 22 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 353 PM EDT SUN JUN 30 2002 ISOLATED TO SCATTERED CONVECTION ACROSS THE CWFA TODAY. WILL DETERMINE JUST BEFORE ISSUANCE WHETHER TO INCLUDE ISOLATED OR SCT EVENING CONVECTION. ACTIVITY SHOULD DIE SHORTLY AFTER SUNSET. LOOKS LIKE A TYPICAL SUMMERTIME PATTERN THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. CWFA REMAINS JUST EAST OF THE UPPER RIDGE AXIS WITH A SURFACE TROF MEANDERING ACROSS THE AREA. WEAK IMPULSES ROTATE SOUTH DOWN THE RIDGE ACROSS THE AREA. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE REMAINS HIGH WITH SOMEWHAT DEEPER MOISTURE RETURNING TUESDAY. DIFFERENTIAL HEATING AND TROF TO PROVIDE THE LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE. ATMOS REMAINS UNSTABLE WITH NO APPRECIABLE MID LEVEL WARMING NOTED. HARD TO PINPOINT WHERE AFT CONVECTION WILL OCCUR...SO WILL MENTION LOW CHC POP ACROSS ALL CWFA. NOTHING TO INDICATE MUCH ORGANIZATION...SO WILL JUST INCLUDE FOR AFT. SFC FNT MOVES SOUTH OF THE CWFA SATURDAY. ATMOS REMAINS MOIST AND UNSTABLE UNTIL THEN. WILL INCLUDE CHC AFT POP ALL AREAS THRU FRI. WILL KEEP SAT AND SUN DRY FOR NOW AS DRIER AIR MOVES IN. GSP 69 91 70 91 / 20 30 20 30 AND 69 91 70 91 / 20 30 20 30 CLT 69 90 70 92 / 10 30 20 30 HKY 68 89 68 90 / 10 30 20 30 AVL 64 85 65 86 / 20 30 20 30 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. RWH
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED FOR WIND LOCATION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
648 PM EDT SUN JUN 30 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
640 PM WOODRUFF SC .88 INCH HAIL
06/30/02 SPARTANBURG
640 PM 1 E MOORE SC WIND DAMAGE
06/30/02 SPARTANBURG TREES DOWN NEAR I-26 AND
HIGHWAY 221 INTERSECTION
630 PM GREENVILLE SC .88 INCH HAIL
06/30/02 GREENVILLE
LANE/HGPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
711 PM EDT SUN JUN 30 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
700 PM 5 N SIMPSONVILLE SC .75 INCH HAIL
06/30/02 GREENVILLE SPOTTER REPORTS DIME SIZE
HAIL AND WIND GUSTS 45 TO
50 MPH.
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</html>The Greer radar (KGSP), 58 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:15 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Trees and powerlines were blown down in the Stonehaven Community. A fallen tree crushed a carport. Trees and powerlines were also blown down along Lake Hartwell.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Carolina in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in South Carolina, June 2002
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5305879.