1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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 4, 7:50 PM EST, 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 850 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002 LATEST LAPS ANALYSIS SHOWS RIDGE OF CAPE FROM NORTHEAST GEORGIA MAX OF 4200 SOUTHWARD WEST OF THE SAVANNAH RIVER THEN EASTWARD ALONG CWFA SOUTHERN BORDER TO SOUTH OF CLT. LATEST RUC FORECAST LOOKS LIKE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHERN AREAS WELL PAST MIDNIGHT. ALSO CONCERN AS GEORGIA TSTMS DRIFT INTO LOWER STABILITY LATER TONIGHT. NORTH CAROLINA LOOKS PRETTY WORKED OVER AND NOT MUCH ACTIVITY EXPECTED IN MOUNTAIN COUNTIES. WITH ALL THAT IN MIND. CURRENT PLAN IS TO UPDATE ZONES AT 930 CONTINUING TSTMS PAST MIDNIGHT IN PIEDMONT AND RAISING POPS TO CHANCE CATEGORY OVER CLT AREA. .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. DICARLO
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
609 PM EDT TUE JUN 04 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
540 PM MONTREAT NC .75 INCH HAIL
06/04/02 BUNCOMBE REPORTED BY THE BLACK
MOUNTAIN FIRE DEPT.
553 PM TIGER GA .75 INCH HAIL
06/04/02 RABUN REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
545 PM OLD FORT NC .75 INCH HAIL
06/04/02 MCDOWELL
603 PM 2 EAST OLD FORT NC .75 INCH HAIL
06/04/02 MCDOWELL STRONG WIND BLEW A SOLAR
PANEL OFF A ROOF.
NEDPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
704 PM EDT TUE JUN 04 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
526 PM OLD FORT NC WIND DAMAGE
06/04/02 MCDOWELL TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN.
603 PM TIGER GA WIND DAMAGE
06/04/02 RABUN TREES DOWN ALONG WITH
HAIL. EVENT LASTED 10 -
15 MINS.
NEDPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
730 PM EDT TUE JUN 04 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
722 PM 3 SE TAYLORS SC .75 INCH HAIL
06/04/02 GREENVILLE DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY SPOTTER.
RBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
747 PM EDT TUE JUN 04 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
735 PM ROYSTON GA 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/04/02 FRANKLIN ESTIMATED WINDS AT 40
MPH.
NEDPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
857 PM EDT TUE JUN 04 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
835 PM 18 NE ANDERSON SC WIND DAMAGE
06/04/02 ANDERSON ANDERSON 911 REPORTS
POWER OUTAGES IN THE 3
AND 20 COMMUNITY...ON THE
SOUTH SIDE OF THE EASLEY
OUTER LIMITS. WINDS BLEW
DOWN TREES AND POWER
LINES AT THE INTERSECTION
OF HIGHWAYS 81 AND 86.
BURRUSPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
902 PM EDT TUE JUN 04 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
858 PM 7 SW OF CLARKSVILLE GA WIND DAMAGE
06/04/02 HABERSHAM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
CAUSED ONE HALF INCH HAIL
AND DOWNED TREES JUST SW
OF CORNELIA
PELISSIERThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Some sheet metal was blown off of 4 hangars at Flight World Airpark. Several trees were also blown down.
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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5305660.