Scattered, pulse-type thunderstorms developed over upstate Sorth Carolina during the afternoon and evening hours. With a very unstable airmass in place over the region, several of the storms produced large hail and wind damage.
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, pulse-type thunderstorms developed over upstate Sorth Carolina during the afternoon and evening hours. With a very unstable airmass in place over the region, several of the storms produced large hail and wind damage.
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 3, 1:19 PM EST, 11 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 356 AM EDT TUE JUL 3 2012 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-040800- 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- 356 AM EDT TUE JUL 3 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 AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. A FEW STORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AS WELL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. 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.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1240 PM EDT TUE JUL 3 2012
NCZ048-049-031730-
MADISON-YANCEY-
1240 PM EDT TUE JUL 3 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL YANCEY AND EASTERN
MADISON COUNTIES THROUGH 130 PM EDT...
AT 1236 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR FAUST...OR 11 MILES WEST OF BURNSVILLE...
MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.
PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.
LAT...LON 3602 8227 3579 8225 3579 8234 3582 8236
3581 8246 3580 8247 3580 8259 3597 8260
3596 8256 3600 8248 3603 8229
KRENTZSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
141 PM EDT TUE JUL 3 2012
NCZ033-031815-
AVERY-
141 PM EDT TUE JUL 3 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL AVERY COUNTY THROUGH 215
PM EDT...
AT 136 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR SUGAR MOUNTAIN...OR 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF
NEWLAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL IMPACT LOCATIONS NEAR...
BANNER ELK...
SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE LIKELY 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 3620 8188 3620 8185 3616 8182 3611 8180
3609 8176 3607 8175 3603 8182 3615 8196
3621 8190
JPTSPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
157 PM EDT TUE JUL 3 2012
NCZ050-031845-
MITCHELL-
157 PM EDT TUE JUL 3 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL MITCHELL COUNTY THROUGH
245 PM EDT...
AT 154 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF BAKERSVILLE...OR 11 MILES
NORTHEAST OF BURNSVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL IMPACT LOCATIONS NEAR...
BAKERSVILLE...
SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH 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 3608 8207 3602 8204 3597 8206 3591 8214
3593 8216 3593 8218 3595 8219 3601 8219
3602 8223 3599 8225 3606 8231 3614 8218
JPTThe Greer radar (KGSP), 80 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:31 UTC.
7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Multiple trees were blown down in the area around Oconee State Park.
A tree was blown down on Fernwood Glendale Rd about 5 miles east of Spartanburg and another on Goldmine Rd at Bethesda Rd.
Trees and multiple large limbs were blown down in the Hickory Tavern community.
Golf ball size hail was reported at the intersection of I-385 and highway 49.
Multiple trees were blown down near the intersection of highway 49 and I-385. A couple trees were blown down along Curry and another on Rocky Springs Church Rd in the same general area.
Several trees were blown down between Greenwood and Ninety Six.
A tree was blown down on Wilson Rd and another on Holmes Bridge Rd. Both locations are about 5 miles southeast of Laurens.
About a dozen trees were blown down across roads from just north of the city to across the city of Greenwood.
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: 400517, 400518, 400519, 400520, 400521, 400522, 400523, 400524, 400528, 400530.