3 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 Columbia, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 6, 1:32 PM EST, 6 hours 13 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 232 PM EDT THU JUN 6 2002 SURFACE FRONT WEST OF THE AREA WILL MOVE IN OVERNIGHT. AIRMASS MOIST AND UNSTABLE. MODELS SHOWING GOOD LIFT AND SOME UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE AHEAD OF FRONT. WILL KEEP LIKELY POPS FOR TONIGHT. WAVE FORMS ON FRONT OVER GA AND FRONT HALTS ACROSS MY SOUTHERN ZONES FOR FRIDAY. PLENTY OF CLOUDS AROUND WITH CHANCE OF PRECIP FROM CENTRAL SC SOUTHWARD TO THE SAVANNAH RIVER AREA. AIRMASS STILL UNSTABLE. CHANCE OF SHOWERS LINGERING INTO FRIDAY NIGHT WITH WEAK SHORTWAVE CROSSING. SURFACE RIDGE BUILDING IN FROM THE NORTHEAST SATURDAY PUSHING FRONT OUT OF THE AREA. UPPER RIDGE OVER THE CNTRL U.S. SATURDAY BUILDING EASTWARD THROUGH TUESDAY. DRY WEATHER THROUGH SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. WILL KEEP CHANCE OF PRECIP FOR WED AND THURSDAY WITH NEXT FRONT CROSSING AROUND THURSDAY. FWC TEMPS LOOK TOO WARM SATURDAY WITH NORTHEAST FLOW. OTHERWISE GUIDANCE TEMPS LOOK REASONABLE. HIGHS FALLING TO THE LOW/MID 80S SATURDAY THE WARMING TO NORMAL FOR SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL BY MONDAY. FCSTID = 10 CAE 72 88 66 83 / 60 20 30 10 AGS 70 88 68 83 / 60 30 30 10 SSC 72 88 66 83 / 60 20 30 10 OGB 71 88 68 84 / 60 30 30 10 .CAE... GA...NONE. SC...NONE. LM
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
State Highway Patrol reported "numerous trees down countywide". Most of them were along roads and in fields.
Utility company reported large limbs and powerlines down in Rembert.
Utility company reported a few trees and powerlines down from Dalzell to the Municipal Airport.
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: 5295260, 5295261, 5295262.