A storm produced a small area of wind damage over the northeast Piedmont of South Carolina.
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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.
A storm produced a small area of wind damage over the northeast Piedmont of South Carolina.
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 28, 7:02 PM EST, 30 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 242 PM EDT SAT JUL 28 2012 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-291930- 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- 242 PM EDT SAT JUL 28 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN THE FORECAST THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING WIND GUSTS BEING THE PRIMARY THREAT. HOWEVER...A FEW OF THE STRONGEST STORMS COULD PRODUCE A BRIEF PERIOD OF LARGE HAIL. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO FORWARD ANY REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...TORNADOES OR FLASH FLOODING TO OUR OFFICE. 07
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
451 PM EDT SAT JUL 28 2012
NCZ068>070-282130-
CLEVELAND-GASTON-LINCOLN-
451 PM EDT SAT JUL 28 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN CLEVELAND...GASTON AND
LINCOLN COUNTIES THROUGH 530 PM EDT...
AT 447 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR CHERRYVILLE...OR 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
LINCOLNTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO MOUNTAIN
ISLAND LAKE...WACO...STANLEY...RANLO...MOUNT HOLLY...MCADENVILLE...
LUCIA...LOWESVILLE...LOWELL...LINCOLNTON...IRON STATION...HIGH
SHOALS...GASTONIA...DALLAS...CROUSE...CRAMERTON...CHERRYVILLE...
BOGER CITY...BESSEMER CITY AND BELMONT.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH...AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.
LAT...LON 3536 8092 3534 8099 3533 8098 3528 8101
3517 8100 3515 8102 3515 8111 3535 8148
3536 8148 3553 8136 3545 8095 3539 8096
3537 8098 3537 8096
07SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
516 PM EDT SAT JUL 28 2012
NCZ035-036-282200-
ALEXANDER-IREDELL-
516 PM EDT SAT JUL 28 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT ALEXANDER AND CENTRAL IREDELL
COUNTIES THROUGH 600 PM EDT...
AT 513 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR TAYLORSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
TURNERSBURG...TAYLORSVILLE...STONY POINT...STATESVILLE...SCOTTS...
MILLERSVILLE...LOVE VALLEY...HIDDENITE...HARMONY AND ELLENDALE.
SMALL HAIL...WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
LAT...LON 3596 8072 3572 8081 3589 8131 3603 8126
3604 8121 3604 8115
07PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
538 PM EDT SAT JUL 28 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0434 PM HAIL 3 ENE FALLSTON 35.44N 81.44W
07/28/2012 E1.00 INCH LINCOLN NC 911 CALL CENTER
QUARTER SIZED HAIL AT THE EAST END OF PARKER FARM ROAD.
0434 PM TSTM WND DMG 3 ENE FALLSTON 35.44N 81.44W
07/28/2012 LINCOLN NC 911 CALL CENTER
A TREE BLOWN DOWN AT THE EAST END OF PARKER FARM ROAD.
&&
OUTLAWSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
602 PM EDT SAT JUL 28 2012
SCZ007-282230-
SPARTANBURG-
602 PM EDT SAT JUL 28 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN SPARTANBURG COUNTY
THROUGH 630 PM EDT...
AT 559 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR CAMPOBELLO...OR 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
COLUMBUS...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL IMPACT LOCATIONS NEAR...
LAKE BOWEN...
BOILING SPRINGS SC...
WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH...AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.
LAKE BOWEN IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS WILL CREATE DANGEROUS BOATING CONDITIONS.
MOVE TO SHORE IMMEDIATELY.
LAT...LON 3503 8222 3513 8222 3520 8220 3519 8206
3516 8186 3515 8186 3494 8193
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</html>The Columbia radar (KCAE), 75 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:32 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A few trees were blown down with at least one on power lines a little to the north of Great Falls.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Carolina in 2012Every state in 2012This day in weather historyWarnings in South Carolina, July 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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 404639.