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 May 2, 3:55 PM EST, 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 455 PM EDT SUN MAY 2 2004 ISSUING ZONE UPDATE AT 500 PM TO CLEAR ABBEVILLE...ANDERSON ...GREENVILLE...GREENWOOD...LAURENS...AND SPARTANBURG COUNTIES FROM WATCH. REST OF COUNTIES WILL REMAIN IN WATCH. THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN IN THE FORECAST THROUGH THE EVENING AS COLD FRONT APPROACHES. THERE IS SOME CONCERN ABOUT MID LEVEL DRYING INCREASING POTENTIAL OF WIND GUSTS IN CLEARED AREA...BUT SOUNDINGS ARE MOST STABLE AFTER BEING WORKED OVER BY PRECIP THIS AFTN. DICARLO
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 600 AM EDT SUN MAY 2 2004 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-021200- ABBEVILLE SC-ALEXANDER NC-ANDERSON SC-AVERY NC-BUNCOMBE NC-BURKE NC- CABARRUS NC-CALDWELL NC-CATAWBA NC-CHEROKEE SC-CHESTER SC- CLEVELAND NC-DAVIE NC-ELBERT GA-FRANKLIN GA-GASTON NC-GRAHAM NC- GREATER GREENVILLE SC-GREATER OCONEE SC-GREATER PICKENS SC- GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS SC-GREENWOOD SC-HABERSHAM GA-HART GA-HAYWOOD NC- HENDERSON NC-IREDELL NC-LAURENS SC-LINCOLN NC-MACON NC-MADISON NC- MCDOWELL NC-MECKLENBURG NC-MITCHELL NC-NORTHERN JACKSON NC- OCONEE MOUNTAINS SC-PICKENS MOUNTAINS SC-POLK NC-RABUN GA-ROWAN NC- RUTHERFORD NC-SOUTHERN JACKSON NC-SPARTANBURG SC-STEPHENS GA- SWAIN NC-TRANSYLVANIA NC-UNION SC-UNION NC-YANCEY NC-YORK SC- 600 AM EDT SUN MAY 2 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE... ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. PLEASE REFER TO THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK ISSUANCE OF CAESPSGSP FOR FURTHER DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS MONDAY NIGHT. PLEASE REFER TO THE 444 AM FREEZE OUTLOOK ISSUANCE OF CAESPSGSP FOR FURTHER DETAILS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON. RWH
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 306 PM EDT SUN MAY 2 2004 NCZ069>072-082-SCZ009-014-022200- CABARRUS NC-CHESTER SC-GASTON NC-LINCOLN NC-MECKLENBURG NC-UNION NC- YORK SC- 306 PM EDT SUN MAY 2 2004 ...THUNDERSTORMS TO MOVE THROUGH THE CHARLOTTE METROPOLITAN AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON... A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE PIEDMONT OF THE CAROLINAS FROM THE WEST LATE TODAY. WARM...MOIST AIR AHEAD OF THE FRONT WILL SUPPORT THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPMENT. NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE CHARLOTTE METROPOLITAN AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON...PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND GUSTY WIND. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. BY EARLY EVENING...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BEGIN TO DIMINSH FROM THE EAST. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE PROGRESS OF THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. 07
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
408 PM EDT SUN MAY 02 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0355 PM TSTM WND DMG CLOVER 35.11N 81.23W
05/02/2004 YORK SC COUNTY OFFICIAL
911 REPORTED SOME DEBRIS BLOWN INTO ROAD INCLUDING
BRUSH...LIMBS...ALSO 1 TREE BLOWN ACROSS ROAD WESTERN
PART OF COUNTY.
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JONESSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 456 PM EDT SUN MAY 2 2004 SCZ003-006-007-010>012-019-022200- ABBEVILLE-ANDERSON-GREATER GREENVILLE-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS-GREENWOOD- LAURENS SC-SPARTANBURG- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ABBEVILLE...ANDERSON...GREENVILLE... GREENWOOD...LAURENS...SPARTANBURG 456 PM EDT SUN MAY 2 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CLEARED THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 146... IS SOUTH CAROLINA... ABBEVILLE... ANDERSON... GREENVILLE... GREENWOOD... LAURENS... SPARTANBURG... SEVERE WEATHER HAS MOVED EAST OF THESE COUNTIES. MCAVOY
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Numerous trees were blown down along highway 84 in the southeast part of the county. There was also widespread power outages in the same area.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, May 2004
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: 5403080.