Scattered airmass thunderstorms developed during the late afternoon hours over western North Carolina. A few of these storms produced brief severe weather.
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 airmass thunderstorms developed during the late afternoon hours over western North Carolina. A few of these storms produced brief severe weather.
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, 3:31 PM EST, 38 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 431 PM EDT SUN JUN 27 2010 .SYNOPSIS... A BERMUDA HIGH WILL KEEP HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS OVER THE AREA INTO MONDAY. A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH FROM THE NORTHWEST LATE ON MONDAY AND SHOULD CROSS THE AREA LATE TUESDAY OR PERHAPS WEDNESDAY. COOLER AND DRIER HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE AREA FROM THE NORTHWEST THURSDAY INTO NEXT WEEKEND. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH MONDAY/... TSTM INITIATION ACRS THE HIGH TERRAIN WILL INCREASE IN CVRG AS THE AFTERNOON WEARS ON...AND AIDED BY OUTFLOWS AND LEE TROUGH...WILL EXPAND INTO THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT. THERE REMAINS THE THREAT OF ISOLATED SVR TSTMS...WITH DAMAGING MICROBURSTS THE GREATEST THREAT. THE OVERALL CVRG AND MAGNITUDE WILL DIMINISH FROM MID-EVENING ONWARD WITH JUST A TOKEN SLIGHT CHANCE POP OR LESS OVERNIGHT WITHIN ANY LINGERING WEAK ELEVATED INSTABILITY. OVERALL...MONDAY MORNING MIN TEMPS WILL BE A DEGREE OR TWO WARMER THAN PERSISTENCE THANKS TO HIGHER DWPTS AND LAYER RH. THE TREND TOWARD LOWERING OF HEIGHTS COMMENCES ON MONDAY WITH THE RESULTANT UPWARD TICK IN MEAN WESTERLY FLOW ATOP THE REGION. ALTHOUGH STRONGER LAYERED UVV/S ARE FCST TO REMAIN OFF TO OUR W/NW...CLOSER TO L/WV AXIS...TSTM CVRG WILL INCREASE...ESPECIALLY DURING THE AFTERNOON...AND ESPECIALLY ACRS THE MTNS WHERE FRONTAL BAND FORCING AND DEEP MOISTURE IS PROGGED TO ENCROACH. DOWNSLOPE COMPONENT FLOW WILL PUSH FTHL/PIEDMONT MAX TEMPS INTO THE MID 90S ONCE AGAIN. && .SHORT TERM /MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... AS OF 345 PM SUNDAY...THE UPPER LEVEL PATTERN CHANGE SHOULD BE WELL UNDERWAY BY LATE MONDAY AS AN UPPER TROF AMPLIFIES OVER THE EASTERN PART OF NORTH AMERICA. THE MAIN CONCERN IS THE PASSAGE OF A COLD FRONT SOME TIME IN THE TUESDAY TO WEDNESDAY TIME FRAME. RECENT MODEL RUNS ARE A BIT AT ODDS AS TO WHEN THE ACTUAL FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH. THE SITUATION FAVORS THE BEST COVERAGE ACROSS THE PIEDMONT ON TUESDAY WHEN THE NAM SHOWS A PRE-FRONTAL TROF MOVING THROUGH. THE GFS LINGERS THE FRONT TO THE NORTHWEST THROUGH THE DAY ON WEDNESDAY AND DOES NOT DROP DOWN UNTIL WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THE CONCERN WITH THE GFS IS THAT IT MIGHT BE ERRONEOUSLY BLOWING UP A SURFACE LOW ON THE NRN GULF COAST BECAUSE OF GRID SCALE FEEDBACK. THAT FEATURE WOULD CAUSE THE FRONT OVER THE CAROLINAS TO SLOW DOWN LATE TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. THE LATEST FORECAST ATTEMPTS TO STRIKE A BALANCE BETWEEN THE TWO...WHICH KEEPS SOME THREAT OF PRECIP OVER THE AREA S AND E OF THE MTNS THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY. TEMPS ARE CLOSE TO GUIDANCE UNTIL WEDNESDAY...WHEN GUIDANCE WAS QUITE A BIT LOWER THAN THE PREVIOUS RUN. FOR NOW HAVE DECLINED TO MAKE THAT MUCH CHANGE FOR THE HIGH TEMP ON THAT DAY. && .LONG TERM /WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY/... AS OF 230 PM SUNDAY...A FAIR AND TRANQUIL AND RELATIVELY TEMPERATE PERIOD IS STILL INDICATED FOR THE MEDIUM RANGE IN SPITE OF SOME OF THE OPERATIONAL MODEL GUIDANCE. THE GFS APPEARS TO SUFFER FROM SOME FEEDBACK IN ITS DEVELOPMENT OF LOW PRESSURE ALONG THE NRN GULF COAST WHICH SLIDES PAST ALONG THE COAST LATE IN THE WEEK. THIS FEATURE WAS DISREGARDED. MEANWHILE...THE LATEST ECMWF LEAVES BEHIND AN UPPER LOW OFF CAPE HATTERAS NEXT WEEKEND...WHICH WRAPS SOME PRECIP BACK WESTWARD OVER THE FORECAST AREA. FOR NOW...THIS WILL ALSO BE DISREGARDED...WHICH LEAVES US WITH THE HPC SCENARIO OF HIGH PRESSURE DOMINATING ACROSS THE MID ATLANTIC AND CAROLINAS THROUGH THE PERIOD. TEMPS WERE ACTUALLY KEPT A BIT ABOVE GUIDANCE WHICH CONTINUES ON A COOLER TREND. AFTER THE LAST STRETCH OF HOT WEATHER...A PERIOD OF HIGHS ONLY IN THE MID 80S IS PROBABLY TOO MUCH TO HOPE FOR. NEVERTHELESS...TEMPS SHOULD BE AT OR A BIT BELOW NORMAL. && .AVIATION /21Z SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/... AT KCLT...BASED ON RUC HRRR RESPONSE AND CCFP OUTPUT...WILL INTRODUCE A LATE DAY CB MENTION FOLLOWED BY MID-EVENING DEEP CONVECTIVE DISSIPATION. MET/MAV/LAV ALL IN AGREEMENT IN KEEPING VSBY UNRESTRICTED OVERNIGHT. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED TSTMS WILL CONTINUE TO BLOSSOM ACRS THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL FA THIS AFTERNOON...SO CB WILL BE INTRODUCED AT ALL TERMINALS AND WILL AMEND AS NEEDED TO INCREASE TSTM CHANCES. MODEL CONSENSUS AND PERSISTENCE WOULD STILL SUPPORT LIMITING A PERIOD OF EARLY MORNING BR TO JUST KAVL. OUTLOOK...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE MONDAY. MORNING MVFR FOG IS POSSIBLE IN ANY AREA THAT RECEIVES HEAVY RAIN... ESPECIALLY IN THE MTN VALLEYS. A DECREASING TREND IN PRECIPITATION FOLLOWS...BUT MOUNTAIN VALLEYS WILL REMAIN VULNERABLE TO SUNRISE FOG. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...PM NEAR TERM...CSH SHORT TERM...PM LONG TERM...PM AVIATION...CSH
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 442 PM EDT SUN JUN 27 2010 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-282045- 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- 442 PM EDT SUN JUN 27 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA THROUGH THIS EVENING. CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES AND LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS. HOWEVER...A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE VERY SLOWLY. INTENSE RAINFALL RATES COULD PRODUCE ISOLATED FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS...AND ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS THAT RESPOND RAPIDLY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
351 PM EDT SUN JUN 27 2010
SCZ009-014-272015-
CHESTER-YORK-
351 PM EDT SUN JUN 27 2010
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN CHESTER AND
SOUTHEASTERN YORK COUNTIES THROUGH 415 PM EDT...
AT 348 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF CATAWBA...OR 8 MILES NORTHWEST
OF LANCASTER...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.
LAT...LON 3468 8088 3470 8100 3488 8100 3490 8088
3483 8087 3481 8088 3479 8087 3470 8086
NEDSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
409 PM EDT SUN JUN 27 2010
NCZ052-064-272045-
HAYWOOD-TRANSYLVANIA-
409 PM EDT SUN JUN 27 2010
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN TRANSYLVANIA AND
SOUTHEASTERN HAYWOOD COUNTIES THROUGH 445 PM EDT...
AT 405 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTH OF BALSAM GROVE...OR 9 MILES WEST
OF BREVARD...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
BREVARD...
PEOPLE IN NORTHERN TRANSYLVANIA AND SOUTHEASTERN HAYWOOD COUNTIES...
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
BREVARD...
SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE
WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE
WEATHER THREATEN.
WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
LAT...LON 3537 8298 3536 8268 3531 8262 3513 8265
3518 8295 3521 8295 3523 8292 3529 8292
3532 8297
NEDPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
419 PM EDT SUN JUN 27 2010
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0416 PM TSTM WND DMG 4 E GAFFNEY 35.06N 81.58W
06/27/2010 CHEROKEE SC COUNTY OFFICIAL
LARGE TREE BLOWN DOWN ON GOLD MINE RD. SMALLER TREES ALSO
DOWN AT THE SAME LOCATION.
&&
MCAVOYSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 431 PM EDT SUN JUN 27 2010 NCZ071-082-272100- MECKLENBURG-UNION- 431 PM EDT SUN JUN 27 2010 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN UNION AND SOUTHEASTERN MECKLENBURG COUNTIES THROUGH 500 PM EDT... AT 430 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF STALLINGS...OR 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CENTER CITY CHARLOTTE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... MATTHEWS... STALLINGS... PEOPLE IN NORTHWESTERN UNION AND SOUTHEASTERN MECKLENBURG COUNTIES... INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... MATTHEWS AND STALLINGS... SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN. 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. LAT...LON 3519 8059 3504 8055 3502 8081 3512 8092 NED
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
442 PM EDT SUN JUN 27 2010
NCZ505-506-272115-
EASTERN MCDOWELL-MCDOWELL MOUNTAINS-
442 PM EDT SUN JUN 27 2010
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL MCDOWELL COUNTY THROUGH
515 PM EDT...
AT 438 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH OF OLD FORT...OR 9 MILES WEST OF
MARION...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
MARION...
PEOPLE IN CENTRAL MCDOWELL COUNTY...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING
LOCATIONS...
OLD FORT AND MARION...
SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE
WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE
WEATHER THREATEN.
PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.
LAT...LON 3578 8195 3559 8194 3559 8226 3562 8227
3564 8229 3570 8228 3569 8227 3572 8221
3575 8218 3580 8199
NEDSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 444 PM EDT SUN JUN 27 2010 GAZ018-SCZ001-004-272115- GREATER OCONEE-OCONEE MOUNTAINS-STEPHENS- 444 PM EDT SUN JUN 27 2010 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN STEPHENS AND SOUTHERN OCONEE COUNTIES THROUGH 515 PM EDT... AT 438 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WESTMINSTER...OR 8 MILES EAST OF TOCCOA...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... LAKE HARTWELL... PEOPLE IN EASTERN STEPHENS AND SOUTHERN OCONEE COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... LAKE HARTWELL AND EASTANOLEE... SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN. PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LAT...LON 3473 8302 3459 8290 3448 8333 3468 8332 NED
The Greer radar (KGSP), 127 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:09 UTC.
3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree was blown down and clipped a house and several large limbs were blown down on Deer Spring Ln. Another tree was blown down on Sharon Rd West.
Numerous trees and large limbs were blown down in and around Catawba.
Two trees were blown down on power lines near Granite Falls.
Lightning ignited a fire at an apartment complex on Delmar St, damaging several units. One person suffered minor burn-related injuries.
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, June 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 246126, 246128, 246129, 247906.