Scattered severe storms affected western North Carolina during the afternoon and evening hours.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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 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 27, 1:35 PM EST, 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 235 PM EDT FRI JUN 27 2008 .SYNOPSIS... A COLD FRONT WILL CROSS THE REGION MONDAY. DRIER AND MILD HIGH PRESSURE WILL FOLLOW THE FRONT. THE HIGH WILL CONTROL THE WEATHER OVER THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA THROUGH LATE IN THE WEEK. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH SATURDAY/... SCT CONVECTION SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGH SUNSET OVER THE REGION. OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES ASSOCIATED WITH A LINE OF STORMS JUST MOVING INTO THE MOUNTAINS WILL LIKELY BE ONE OF THE MAIN FOCUSING MECHANISMS INTO THE EVENING HOURS. STORMS TODAY HAVE NOT HAD AS HIGH OF REFLECTIVITY IN THE MID LEVELS...OWING TO LAPSE RATES THAT ARE NOT AS STEEP AS THEY WERE YESTERDAY. IN ADDITION...DOWNSLOPE AND THE VERY DRY SOIL OVER THE FOOTHILLS HAVE RESULTED IN DEWPOINTS MIXING INTO THE U50S OVER THE WRN UPSTATE AND WRN NC FOOTHILLS. THIS WILL LIMIT COVERAGE IN THESE AREAS...BUT WITH OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES CONTINUING TO WORK ACROSS THE REGION...STORMS SHOULD GO UNTIL AROUND MIDNIGHT. STILL LOOKING AT 50-55 DBZ RETURNS UP AROUND 32KFT FOR SEVERE HAIL. WE HAD A 37 KT GUST AT THE GRD ASOS EARLIER...AND THE TCLT TDWR SHOWED SOME OVER 40 KT WINDS FROM A LOW TOPPED CELL OVER LINCOLN COUNTY. WITH SUCH LARGE DEWPOINT DEPRESSIONS IN THE LEE...AN ISOLATED DAMAGING MICROBURST IS POSSIBLE WITH NEARLY ANY CELL...MAKING IT A TOUGH WARNING ENVIRONMENT...ESPECIALLY AS THE CORES THAT HAVE CAUSED STRONGER WINDS HAVE BEEN QUITE LOW. SATURDAY LOOKS VERY SIMILAR TO TODAY WITH H5 WINDS AROUND 20 KTS...A FEW WEAK SHORTWAVES...AND SOME FORM OF LEE SIDE CONVERGENCE HELPING TO INITIATE STORMS OVER THE SRN UPSTATE AND NC PIEDMONT. STORMS WILL ALSO DEVELOP AGAIN OVER THE MOUNTAINS DUE TO OROGRAPHIC ASCENT. THE THREAT FOR A FEW SEVERE STORMS WILL EXIST ONCE AGAIN...MAINLY IN THE FORM OF 3/4 INCH HAIL AND MICROBURSTS AS DEWPOINT DEPRESSIONS INCREASE TO 30 TO 35 DEG IN THE LEE ONCE AGAIN. && .SHORT TERM /SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT/... AS OF 215 PM FRIDAY...SUNDAY WILL BE ANOTHER GOOD CONVECTION DAY WITH GOOD CAPE VALUES THROUGHOUT THE AREA. AFTER SUNDAY CONVECTION THE REAL FORECAST PROBLEM IS WHEN TO CLEAR OUR MENTION OF PRECIPITATION AS IMPULSE MOVES EAST OF OUR AREA. MODELS ARE IN FAIRLY GOOD ALIGNMENT AS FAR A SYNOPTIC POSITIONS ARE CONCERNED. STAYED PRETTY CLOSE TO THE GFS MODEL WITH A SLIGHT LEAN TO A DRY BIAS. NO MAJOR CHANGES IN THE TEMP FORECAST OTHER THAN SMOOTHING OUT SOME OF THE BOUNDARIES. && .LONG TERM /MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/... AS OF 235 PM FRIDAY...12Z MONDAY IS A GOOD BREAK POINT AS HPC PREDICTION HAS COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH AREA MONDAY MORNING. THIS CUTS OFF MOISTURE OVER THE AREA THROUGH THURSDAY AS FRONT STALLS JUST SOUTH OF CWA AND SLOWLY DISSIPATES OVER THE NEXT TWO DAYS. TEMPS DROP A LITTLE BEHIND FRONT BUT WE START SEEING A WARMUP BY THURSDAY. BY FRIDAY WE SHOULD SEE A RETURN OF CONVECTION AHEAD OF COLD FRONT THAT SHOULD EXTEND ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY BY FRIDAY EVENING. THE REMNANTS OF THE OLD FRONT MAY SERVE AS A FOCUS OF CONVECTION...BUT IT IS A LITTLE TOO EARLY TO PIN THAT DOWN. MODEL OF CHOICE CONTINUES TO BE THE GFS...BUT THERE REALLY IS NOT THAT MUCH DIFFERENCE BETWEEN IT AND THE EUROPEAN. && .AVIATION /19Z FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... SCT TO NUMEROUS TSTMS WILL PERSIST THROUGH SUNSET. I HAVE INCLUDED A CB AND VCTS AT ALL TAF SITES. WILL TRY AND TIME TEMPO GROUPS FOR CONVECTION AS CLUSTERS OF STORMS BECOME MORE ORGANIZED AND START TO AFFECT TAF SITES. OTHERWISE WINDS WILL BE OUT OF THE SOUTHWEST THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. LATER TONIGHT MVFR VALLEY FOG IS AGAIN A GOOD BET AT KAVL. WON/T CARRY LOW STRATUS AGAIN TONIGHT...BUT IF THE AIRPORT SEES A GOOD SHOWER THIS EVENING...THEN CONDITIONS WILL LIKELY BE MUCH WORSE TOMORROW MORNING. EXPECT SOLID CONVECTIVE COVERAGE AGAIN ON SATURDAY SO CB/S HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THE TAFS. WINDS WILL BE OUT OF THE SOUTHWEST AGAIN...AT SPEEDS A LITTLE HIGHER THAN TODAY. OUTLOOK...MOISTURE WILL INCREASE ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK. COVERAGE OF SHRA AND TSRA MAY INCREASE EACH DAY OVER THE WEEKEND...ESPECIALLY OVER THE MOUNTAINS. FOG MAY ALSO DEVELOP WITHIN THE MOUNTAIN VALLEYS DURING THE PRE-DAWN HOURS AND GRADUALLY DIMINISH AFTER SUNRISE. A COLD FRONT WILL CROSS THE AREA MONDAY...WITH DRIER CONDITIONS AND NO RESTRICTIONS EXPECTED TUE AND WED. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...MCAVOY NEAR TERM...MCAVOY SHORT TERM...VAD LONG TERM...VAD AVIATION...MCAVOY
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 352 AM EDT FRI JUN 27 2008 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-280800- 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- 352 AM EDT FRI JUN 27 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVLOP THIS AFTERNOON AS AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS PERSISTS ACROSS THE REGION. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE HEAVY DOWNPOURS...HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES OR LARGER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE THIS WEEKEND AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND A FEW OF THESE COULD BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. ON SUNDAY...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON. DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AROUND 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. KRENTZ
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</html>The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 148 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:25 UTC.
7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 lightning, 1 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Several large tree limbs were blown down near the intersection of South Chipley Ford Rd and highway 115.
Eight firefighters working to contain a wildfire were treated for burns when lightning struck nearby.
A large tree and several large limbs were blown down across Stallings.
Several large tree limbs and power lines were blown down.
A man was killed when a tree limb was blown down on top of him.
Multiple trees and power lines were blown down and some power poles snapped from the Lake Lure area to the Shingle Hollow area.
Trees were blown down along Wilson Rd.
Several large limbs were blown down near the highway 10 and highway 321 intersection.
Hail reported near the highway 10 and highway 321 intersection.
Multiple trees were blown down near Lake Norman and the roof of a business was damaged.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strong Wind, Eastern Polk | 2008-06-27 | 44 | Male | Under Tree | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, June 2008
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: 121402, 121545, 121403, 121404, 121407, 121409, 121411, 121546, 121413, 121418, 121423, 121436, 121438, 121441.