Scattered storms developed over western North Carolina during the late afternoon hours, and a couple of those briefly became severe.
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 storms developed over western North Carolina during the late afternoon hours, and a couple of those briefly became severe.
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 24, 1:24 PM EST, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 224 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2012 .SYNOPSIS... AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL CROSS THE REGION AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT. THIS FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE CAROLINAS LATE MONDAY AND SETTLE SOUTH OF THE AREA ON TUESDAY. DRY HIGH PRESSURE WILL THEN DOMINATE... KEEPING TROPICAL STORM DEBBY TO THE SOUTH OF THE AREA AND ALLOWING TEMPERATURES TO STEADILY WARMING TO WELL ABOVE NORMAL VALUES BY LATE WEEK. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH MONDAY/... AT 1420 EDT SUNDAY...THE EAST COAST TROUGH PERSISTS INTO MONDAY... WITH A RIDGE UPSTREAM OVER THE PLAINS. CONVECTION ASSOCIATED WITH A WEAK UPPER IMPULSE IS EXPECTED TO FORM THIS AFTERNOON...FIRST ON THE BLUE RIDGE...THEN SPREADING INTO THE FOOTHILLS. MEANWHILE CONVECTION ASSOCIATED FIRING ALONG AND OLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL LINGER NEAR OUT PIEDMONT COUNTIES. INSTABILITY AND SHEAR ARE GREATER THAN IN PREVIOUS DAYS...AND SOME ORGANIZATION OF CONVECTION IS POSSIBLE... WITH HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS RESULTING. ACTIVITY WILL WANE BY MID EVENING WITH THE LOSS OF HEATING. FOG IS EXPECTED AGAIN IN MOUNTAIN VALLEYS IN A MOIST AIR MASS...AND PERHAPS TO THE EAST WHERE RAIN FALLS. MINIMUM TEMPERATURES WILL BE TYPICAL FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR. A WELL DEFINED SHORTWAVE DROPS INTO THE TROUGH ON MONDAY...WHILE AN ASSOCIATED BACK DOOR FRONT MOVES SOUTH INTO THE CAROLINAS. THIS WILL SUPPORT ANOTHER ROUND OF CONVECTION. MORE SHEAR IS AVAILABLE ON SUNDAY THAN TODAY...BUT CAPE APPEARS TO BE A BIT MORE LIMITED...ESPECIALLY IN THE WEST. MAXIMUMS TEMPERATURES WILL BE A BIT ABOVE NORMAL. && .SHORT TERM /MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... AS OF 215 PM SUNDAY...IT STILL LOOKS LIKE THE SHORT RANGE PERIOD WILL BE DOMINATED BY A HIGHLY AMPLIFIED PATTERN CONSISTING OF AN UPPER LOW OVER NEW ENGLAND AND A LARGE UPPER ANTICYCLONE OVER THE PLAINS. THE RESULTING NNW FLOW ALOFT SHOULD DRIVE A COLD FRONT SOUTHWARD THE REST OF THE WAY THROUGH THE CAROLINAS MONDAY EVENING...SO A CHANCE POP WILL BE MAINTAINED INTO THE EVENING HOURS UNTIL THE BOUNDARY IS SAFELY TO THE SOUTH. THE REST OF THE SHORT RANGE IS RELATIVELY BENIGN WITH HIGH PRESSURE RIDGING DOWN FROM THE GREAT LAKES TUESDAY AND THEN SETTLING OVER THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS ON WEDNESDAY...WHICH SHOULD KEEP IT RELATIVELY COOL AND DRY. TEMPS WILL ALSO DROP OFF SIGNIFICANTLY AND COULD BE BELOW NORMAL IN SOME LOCATIONS...ESPECIALLY TUESDAY...BUT HAVE ELECTED NOT TO LOWER THEM ANY MORE EVEN THOUGH THE MODEL TREND IS IN THAT DIRECTION. WILD DIFFERENCES AMONG MODEL SOLUTIONS WITH REGARD TO DEBBY WILL CONTINUE TO GIVE FORECASTERS FITS ALONG THE GULF COAST...BUT FOR NOW IT APPEARS THAT THE AFFECT OVER THE WESTERN CAROLINAS WILL BE LIMITED TO CIRRUS OUTFLOW ALOFT. && .LONG TERM /WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY/... AS OF 1230 PM SUNDAY...AN INHERENT UNCERTAINTY CLOUDS THE MEDIUM RANGE BECAUSE OF THE DIFFICULTY WITH FORECASTING THE FATE OF DEBBY...EVEN THOUGH IT STILL APPEARS AS THOUGH THE WESTERN CAROLINAS WILL REMAIN INSULATED FROM ANY AFFECTS FROM THE STORM. WE ARE STILL FAIRLY CERTAIN THAT THE FIRST PART OF THE MEDIUM RANGE...THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...WILL BE DRY AS WE MAINTAIN A NNW FLOW ALOFT BETWEEN THE UPPER LOW ALONG THE NEW ENGLAND COAST AND CANADIAN MARITIMES AND SOME SORT OF UPPER RIDGE OVER THE MIDDLE OF THE COUNTRY. AT LEAST THAT IS OUR BEST SHOT RIGHT NOW. EVEN IF THE 00Z RUN OF THE ECMWF IS RIGHT WITH THE TROPICAL REMNANT OVER THE ARKLATEX AT 12Z FRIDAY...THERE WILL STILL BE SOME SORT OF RIDGE BETWEEN IT AND THE NORTHEAST UPPER LOW...BASICALLY OVER OR JUST WEST OF THE CAROLINAS. SO...THE PRECIP CHANCES WERE CUT BACK TO A SLIGHT CHANCE OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN FRIDAY AFTERNOON...WITH TEMPS WELL ABOVE NORMAL. THE LATEST GUIDANCE FROM HPC KEEPS A FRONTAL BOUNDARY DRAPED E TO W WELL TO OUR N FOR NEXT WEEKEND AND THUS WE WOULD REMAIN S OF THE MCS TRACK. THUS...OUR BEST BET IS A RETURN TO CLIMO DIURNAL THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WITH TEMPS COMING DOWN A FEW DEGREES...BUT STILL ABOVE NORMAL. && .AVIATION /19Z SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/... AT KCLT...CONVECTION IS DEVELOPING THIS AFTERNOON NORTHWEST OF THE FEILD...WITH A SHOWER JUST TO THE SE. THUNDER WITH NO RESTRICTION WILL BE CARRIED IN A TEMPO. A CONSENSUS OF GUIDANCE IS NOT SUPPORTIVE OF RESTRICTIONS OVERNIGHT. LIGHT SE WINDS WILL VEER TO THE S TONIGHT AND THE SW BY MONDAY MORNING. ANOTHER ROUND OF CONVECTION IE EXPECTED AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING FRONT ON MONDAY...BUT CONFIDENCE ON TIMING IS TOO LOW TO CARRY CONVECTION WITH THIS FORECAST PACKAGE. ELSEWHERE...CONVECTION IS EXPECTED AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON...THIS TIME WITH BETTER FORCING AND INSTABILITY. VCTS WILL BE CARRIED AT ALL SITES FOR SEVERAL HOURS THIS AFTERNOON...WITH NO RESTRICTIONS. CONVECTION WILL DIMINISH WITH THE LOSS OF HEATING THIS EVENING. SE WINDS WILL VEER TO THE S TONIGHT...AND SW BY DAYBREAK. GUIDANCE IS GRADUALLY BECOMING MORE SUPPORTIVE OF FOG...BUT NOT WITH ENOUGH CONSENSUS IN SC. KAVL WILL FEATURE LOW END MVFR FOG BY DAYBREAK...WITH THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT THAT IT COULD BE MUCH LOWER...AS IT WAS THE LAST TWO MORNINGS. KHKY HAS MORE SUPPORT FOR MVFR VSBY THAN IN RECENT DAYS...BUT WITHOUT A RECENT HISTORY OF FOG...WILL WAIT TO SE IF RAIN FALLS THERE. MORE CONVECTION WILL PRECEDE A FRONT ON MONDAY...BUT TIMING IS QUESTIONABLE TOWARD THE END OF THIS FORECAST CYCLE. OUTLOOK...AT LEAST SCATTERED DIURNAL CONVECTION WILL DEVELOP OVER THE AREA AGAIN ON MONDAY...AS ANOTHER WEAK COLD FRONT DROPS INTO THE AREA. MORNING FOG/STRATUS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE...MAINLY IN THE MTN VALLEYS. A CONSIDERABLY DRIER AIR MASS IS EXPECTED TO BUILD INTO THE AREA FOR TUESDAY AND REMAIN THROUGH AT LEAST THURSDAY. AN EXPERIMENTAL AVIATION FORECAST CONSISTENCY TABLE SHOWING THE PERCENTAGE OF GUIDANCE MEMBERS AGREEING WITH THE SCHEDULED ISSUANCE CATEGORY IS AVAILABLE AT FOLLOWING LINK (USE LOWER CASE)... WWW.WEATHER.GOV/GSP/AVIATION/TABLES.HTM && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...PAT NEAR TERM...JAT SHORT TERM...PM LONG TERM...PM AVIATION...JAT
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 520 AM EDT SUN JUN 24 2012 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-251000- 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- 520 AM EDT SUN JUN 24 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL PRODUCE DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE...PRODUCING HAIL OF PENNY TO QUARTER SIZE...AS WELL AS BRIEF BUT DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THE WARM AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL REMAIN IN PLACE ACROSS THE REGION MONDAY AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE NORTH. ANOTHER ROUND OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS BECOMING SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO FORWARD ANY REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...TORNADOES OR FLASH FLOODING TO OUR OFFICE. GERAPETRITIS
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
231 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2012
NCZ071-241915-
MECKLENBURG-
231 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN MECKLENBURG COUNTY
THROUGH 315 PM EDT...
AT 230 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR PINEVILLE...OR 9 MILES SOUTH OF CENTER CITY
CHARLOTTE...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL IMPACT LOCATIONS NEAR...
PINEVILLE...
SOUTHPARK MALL...
SMALL HAIL...WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE EXPECTED
WITH THIS STORM.
LAT...LON 3503 8077 3503 8080 3501 8083 3501 8086
3511 8094 3509 8096 3508 8098 3525 8098
3519 8068
JOHSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
236 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2012
SCZ011-019-241915-
ABBEVILLE-GREENWOOD-
236 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN ABBEVILLE AND
SOUTHERN GREENWOOD COUNTIES THROUGH 315 PM EDT...
AT 235 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR CALLISON...OR 13 MILES SOUTH OF GREENWOOD...
MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH.
SMALL HAIL...WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE EXPECTED
WITH THIS STORM.
FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY
AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF
POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID
USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. TRY TO UNPLUG UNNECESSARY
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.
LAT...LON 3398 8205 3398 8216 3397 8219 3401 8224
3398 8229 3400 8232 3406 8234 3405 8242
3406 8242 3420 8234 3410 8191 3395 8204
JOHSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
241 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2012
NCZ036-241930-
IREDELL-
241 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL IREDELL COUNTY THROUGH
330 PM EDT...
AT 240 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF STATESVILLE...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL IMPACT LOCATIONS NEAR...
STATESVILLE...
SMALL HAIL...WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE EXPECTED
WITH THIS STORM.
LAT...LON 3590 8070 3583 8071 3569 8076 3565 8079
3579 8107 3594 8099
JOHSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
320 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2012
NCZ071-082-242000-
MECKLENBURG-UNION-
320 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2012
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT NORTHERN UNION AND SOUTHERN
MECKLENBURG COUNTIES THROUGH 400 PM EDT...
AT 314 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM PINEVILLE TO INDIAN
TRAIL...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
THESE STORMS WILL IMPACT LOCATIONS NEAR...
FAIRVIEW...
UNIONVILLE...
MONROE...
SMALL HAIL...WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH AND TORRENTIAL RAIN 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. SEEK HIGHER GROUND
IF THREATENED BY FLOOD WATERS.
FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY
AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF
POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID
USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. TRY TO UNPLUG UNNECESSARY
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.
LAT...LON 3494 8079 3511 8094 3510 8095 3516 8101
3517 8101 3518 8100 3519 8052 3496 8030
3494 8030
JOHSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 332 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2012 NCZ036-057-242015- IREDELL-ROWAN- 332 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2012 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CENTRAL IREDELL AND NORTHWESTERN ROWAN COUNTIES THROUGH 415 PM EDT... AT 329 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 3 MILES WEST OF STATESVILLE TO 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF CLEVELAND...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL IMPACT LOCATIONS NEAR... STATESVILLE... TROUTMAN... CLEVELAND... SMALL HAIL...WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH AND TORRENTIAL RAIN 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. SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENED BY FLOOD WATERS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. TRY TO UNPLUG UNNECESSARY ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. LAT...LON 3584 8102 3583 8067 3566 8052 3569 8093 JOH
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 336 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2012 SCZ011-019-242015- ABBEVILLE-GREENWOOD- 336 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2012 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN ABBEVILLE AND NORTHWESTERN GREENWOOD COUNTIES THROUGH 415 PM EDT... AT 329 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF ABBEVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM WILL IMPACT LOCATIONS NEAR... COKESBURY... DUE WEST... SMALL HAIL...WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LAT...LON 3437 8249 3433 8216 3408 8226 3411 8246 JOH
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 126 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:55 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Trees were blown down on power lines on Antioch Church Rd.
Trees were blown down in the Crouse area.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2012Every state in 2012This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, June 2012
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: 390605, 390612, 390622.