Scattered severe storms affected western North Carolina during the afternoon and early evening hours.
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 episode as NWS GSP wrote it up.
Scattered severe storms affected western North Carolina during the afternoon and early evening hours.
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 14, 9:48 AM EST, 3 hours 52 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1048 AM EDT THU JUN 14 2007 .SYNOPSIS... WEAK HIGH PRESSURE TO OUR NORTH AND A LOW IN THE GULF WILL CONTINUE TO HELP BRING MOISTURE INTO THE AREA THROUGH FRIDAY. A FEW MORE UPPER DISTURBANCES WILL ROTATE FROM NORTH TO SOUTH AROUND THE UPPER TROUGH LOCATED OFF THE EAST COAST AND PROVIDE PERIODS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THE UPPER TROUGH WILL MOVE AWAY FROM OUR AREA THIS WEEKEND...WHICH WILL BRING BACK WARMER...DRIER WEATHER. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/... PER THE SPC DISCUSSION... MID-LEVEL LAPSE RATES TODAY ARE FORECAST TO BE A BIT LESS STEEP THAN YESTERDAY. NONETHELESS... THE CWA REMAINS IN SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE CONVECTIVE STORMS. MODEL SOUNDINGS CONTINUE TO INDICATE A HEALTHY AMOUNT OF CAPE FROM MID AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING... SO CERTAINLY EXPECT STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP WHERE LOW LEVEL FORCING PROVIDED SUFFICIENT LIFT TO GET THINGS GOING. THICK CLOUD COVER SPREADING SOUTHWESTWARD FROM NORTHERN AND EASTERN WILL PROBABLY LESSEN THE CONVECTIVE POTENTIAL IN NORTHEASTERN PORTION OF CWA. HOWEVER... THE BOUNDARY COULD ALSO HELP TO ESTABLISH A REGION OF DIFFERENTIAL HEATING THAT WILL PROMOTE LIFE. USING THE RUC AS A STARTING POINT FOR FORECASTING SOUTHWESTWARD EDGE OF CLOUDS... WILL PLACE IT ALONG A LINE FROM NEAR CLT NORTHWEST INTO THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS. HEATING AND MIXING WILL PROBABLY BREAK UP THE CLOUD COVER A BIT AND AFTERNOON CONVECTION OVER HIGHER TERRAIN WILL ALSO COMPLICATE AFTERNOON CLOUD PATTERN. NONETHELESS... BELIEVE BEST REGIONS FOR CONVECTION TO INITIATE WILL BE OVER AND NEAR MOUNTAINS THEN ALONG BOUNDARY DEFINED BY CLOUDS AND SHIFT TO NORTHEAST WINDS. COLD POOL ALOFT MOVING SOUTHWARD TOWARD AREA THIS EVENING WILL FURTHER DESTABILIZE ATMOSPHERE SO THAT CONVECTION IS LIKELY TO CONTINUE INTO THE LATE EVENING. PLAN TO CONTINUE CURRENT AFTERNOON POP FORECAST EVEN THOUGH POPS IN NORTHEASTERN ZONES MIGHT BE A BIT TOO HIGH WITH CLOUDS MOVING IN. WILL CONSIDER LOWERING THEM IN A LATER ISSUANCE IF CLOUD COVER DOES NOT BREAK UP ENOUGH TO ALLOW HEATING. && .SHORT TERM /FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY/... BOTH THE NAM AND GFS INDICATE THE AXIS OF THE UPPER TROUGH WILL BE SITUATED FROM NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST OVER OUR FORECAST AREA ON FRIDAY. COOLER AND MORE STABLE AIR WILL BE OVER THE NORTHEAST SECTIONS WHILE THE SOUTHERN AND WESTERN SECTIONS WILL BE MORE UNSTABLE. HIGH TEMPERATURES ON FRIDAY WILL RANGE FROM THE LOWER 70S IN THE NORTHEAST TO AROUND 80 IN THE SOUTHWEST. IF THERE ARE MORE SEVERE STORMS ON FRIDAY...THAT WILL LIKELY BE OVER THE FAR SOUTHERN SECTIONS...GENERALLY SOUTH OF A GSP TO TOCCOA LINE. SIGNIFICANT CAPES AND LIS FOR FRIDAY AFTERNOON WILL BE LIMITED TO THOSE AREAS. A FEW MORE VORTICITY MAXES WILL BE CROSSING THE AREA FROM THE NORTH AND IN COMBINATION WITH THE MOISTURE THERE SHOULD BE ONGOING CONVECTION OF THE KINDER VARIETY FRIDAY MORNING. THIS WILL TRANSITION DURING THE DAY FRIDAY TO STRONGER CONVECTION IN THE SOUTH AND WEST WITH MAINLY JUST SHOWERS OVER THE NORTH CAROLINA PIEDMONT AND FOOTHILLS IN THE AFTERNOON. THE UPPER TROUGH AXIS WILL THEN BEGIN TO SHIFT SOUTHEAST FRIDAY NIGHT AND MOST OF THE REMAINING VORT MAXES WILL LEAVE THE AREA. EXPECT MUCH DRIER CONDITIONS ON SATURDAY WITH MORE SUNSHINE AND TEMPERATURES A LITTLE ABOVE NORMAL...IN THE 80S MOST LOCATIONS. THE DIFFERENTIAL HEATING IN THE MOUNTAINS MAY SPARK A FEW SHOWERS AND STORMS...BUT WITH VERY LITTLE MOISTURE TO WORK WITH THE COVERAGE WILL BE LIMITED. && .LONG TERM /SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... BOTH THE NAM AND GFS LIFT THE UPPER TROUGH OUT TO THE NORTHEAST LATE IN THE WEEKEND. THE GFS IS A BIT FASTER IN DOING THIS AS THE CLOSED LOW OPENS UP BY 6Z SUNDAY. THE NAM MAINTAINS THE CLOSED LOW THROUGH THE END OF ITS CYCLE AT 12Z SUNDAY. BOTH MODELS ARE SOMEWHAT CONSISTENT IN PLACEMENT OF THIS FEATURE OFF THE NEW ENGLAND COAST. AT ANY RATE...THE UPPER RIDGE WILL BE BUILDING IN FROM THE WEST ON SUNDAY. AS A RESULT...HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL BE AROUND 90 DEGREES IN THE PIEDMONT SUNDAY AND MONDAY. THE NEXT UPPER TROUGH WILL BE PROGRESSIVELY CROSSING THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ON TUESDAY. HPC HAS THE ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT REACHING OUR MOUNTAINS WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAX TEMPS WILL BE A BIT COOLER TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY WITH THE INCREASED CLOUD COVER AND ASSOCIATED PRECIPITATION. && .AVIATION /15Z THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY/... THERE HAVE BEEN SOME LOCALIZED SIGNIFICANT RESTRICTIONS THIS MORNING. AT ISSUANCE TIME KGSP WAS 1/4SM FG...AS WAS KAVL. OTHER SITES ARE GENERALLY EITHER MVFR OR VFR. ONCE THE FOG AND STRATUS BURNS OFF...WHICH SHOULD HAPPEN BY 14 UTC...IT WILL BE ANOTHER AFTERNOON WITH NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS. HAVE VCTS MENTIONED AT ALL THE TAF SITES...WITH CONVECTION BEGINNING IN THE EARLY AFTERNOON. WINDS WILL BE MAINLY NORTHEAST THIS MORNING...BUT AS A SHORT WAVE APPROACHES...THEY COULD VEER AROUND TO THE SOUTH. THIS IS MOST LIKELY AT KAND AND KGSP. THINK THAT KCLT AND KHKY WILL STAY MORE OUT OF THE EAST TO ENE. LATER TONIGHT THE MODELS SIGNIFICANTLY MOISTEN THE LOW LEVELS...AND I THINK THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE OF WIDESPREAD STRATUS. AVIATION OUTLOOK...EXPECT LOWERED VSBYS AND CIGS FRI AND SAT MORNINGS WITH A LIGHT NE FLOW. THERE WILL BE A GOOD CHANCE OF AFTERNOON TSTMS FRI AND NOT AS GOOD A CHANCE ON SAT. ON SUN ND MON THE AIRMASS WILL DRY OUT WITH LESS OF A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AND MORNING VSBY/CIG RESTRICTIONS. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...DEO NEAR TERM...LGL SHORT TERM...DEO LONG TERM...DEO AVIATION...LGL
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 449 AM EDT THU JUN 14 2007 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-150900- RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-ALEXANDER- IREDELL-DAVIE-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD-BUNCOMBE-CATAWBA- ROWAN-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA- HENDERSON-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION NC- CALDWELL MOUNTAINS-GREATER CALDWELL-BURKE MOUNTAINS-GREATER BURKE- MCDOWELL MOUNTAINS-EASTERN MCDOWELL-RUTHERFORD MOUNTAINS- GREATER RUTHERFORD-POLK MOUNTAINS-EASTERN POLK-OCONEE MOUNTAINS- PICKENS MOUNTAINS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS-GREATER OCONEE- GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG-CHEROKEE-YORK- ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER-GREENWOOD- 449 AM EDT THU JUN 14 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ANOTHER IN A SERIES OF UPPER LOWS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS THIS EVENING. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE LOW. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND DAMAGING WINDS OF 60 MPH. MUCH LIKE PREVIOUS DAYS...IT WILL BE HARD TO PINPOINT WHERE THE GREATEST THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS WILL BE. HOWEVER...LIGHT UPSLOPE WINDS WILL TEND TO CONCENTRATE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE LEE SLOPES AND ADJACENT FOOTHILL LOCATIONS OF NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA. AS THE UPPER LOW WILL BE ARRIVING DURING THE EARLY EVENING...THE THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS WILL LAST INTO THE LATE EVENING HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN AFFECT THE REGION FRIDAY AFTERNOON...AND A FEW MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 107 PM EDT THU JUN 14 2007 NCZ053-065-141800- BUNCOMBE-HENDERSON- 107 PM EDT THU JUN 14 2007 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN HENDERSON AND SOUTHEASTERN BUNCOMBE COUNTIES THROUGH 200 PM EDT... AT 101 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF BAT CAVE...OR 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF HENDERSONVILLE...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. KRENTZ
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 117 PM EDT THU JUN 14 2007 NCZ071-141815- MECKLENBURG- 117 PM EDT THU JUN 14 2007 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT MECKLENBURG COUNTY THROUGH 215 PM EDT... AT 109 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF UNC CHARLOTTE TO MINT HILL...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 7 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR... I-77 AT I-85 BY 125 PM EDT. SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS. WATER LEVELS OF SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS MAY ALSO RISE...THEREFORE SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENED BY FLOOD WATERS. KRENTZ
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 123 PM EDT THU JUN 14 2007 NCZ082-141830- UNION- 123 PM EDT THU JUN 14 2007 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN UNION COUNTY THROUGH 230 PM EDT... AT 117 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF WINGATE...OR 7 MILES EAST OF MONROE...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... WINGATE BY 130 PM EDT. SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS. WATER LEVELS OF SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS MAY ALSO RISE...THEREFORE SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENED BY FLOOD WATERS. KRENTZ
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 141 PM EDT THU JUN 14 2007 NCZ065-507-141845- HENDERSON-RUTHERFORD MOUNTAINS- 141 PM EDT THU JUN 14 2007 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN HENDERSON AND WESTERN RUTHERFORD COUNTIES THROUGH 245 PM EDT... AT 134 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR BAT CAVE...OR 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF HENDERSONVILLE...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS. WATER LEVELS OF SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS MAY ALSO RISE...THEREFORE SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENED BY FLOOD WATERS. KRENTZ
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 211 PM EDT THU JUN 14 2007 NCZ059-063-141915- NORTHERN JACKSON-SOUTHERN JACKSON- 211 PM EDT THU JUN 14 2007 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT JACKSON COUNTY THROUGH 315 PM EDT... AT 204 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR CULLOWHEE...OR 6 MILES SOUTH OF SYLVA... MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH. SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS. WATER LEVELS OF SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS MAY ALSO RISE...THEREFORE SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENED BY FLOOD WATERS. KRENTZ
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 237 PM EDT THU JUN 14 2007 NCZ071-141915- MECKLENBURG- 237 PM EDT THU JUN 14 2007 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT MECKLENBURG COUNTY THROUGH 315 PM EDT... AT 237 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES EAST OF HUNTERSVILLE...OR 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF UNC CHARLOTTE...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... I-77 AT I-85 BY 310 PM EDT. PAW CREEK BY 315 PM EDT. PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. HG
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 109 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:39 UTC.
3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree was blown down north just north of Franklin, and another was downed south of town.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, June 2007
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: 41275, 41276, 41277, 41278.