Scattered thunderstorms developed along a cold front over western North Carolina during the afternoon hours. Some of the storms produced damaging winds and large hail.
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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 episode as NWS GSP wrote it up.
Scattered thunderstorms developed along a cold front over western North Carolina during the afternoon hours. Some of the storms produced damaging winds and large hail.
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 Jul 24, 6:05 PM EST, 20 hours 43 minutes earlier.
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</html>The Greer radar (KGSP), 72 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:48 UTC.
5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Several trees were blown down in the Skyland area.
Dime size hail was reported off of highway 276.
Two large tree limbs were blown down on power lines.
Lightning struck a house on Tiffany St, igniting a fire that damaged part of the structure.
Several trees were blown down along highway 801 near Woodleaf.
Lightning ignited a fire at a home on Poplar Leaf Dr, destroying the home.
Siding and part of a metal roof was torn off a building on 20th Street. A tree was blown down in the same area.
Shingles were blown off homes on Potneck Rd. A tree was blown down on a house on N Saliabury Ave about 3 miles northeast of downtown Salisbury.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, July 2010
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 252399, 252401, 252402, 252406, 252706, 252411, 252708, 252413, 252414, 252415.