Scattered thunderstorms developed across western North Carolina during the afternoon. One of the storms produced brief damaging wind gusts while other produced dangerous lightning.
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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 across western North Carolina during the afternoon. One of the storms produced brief damaging wind gusts while other produced dangerous lightning.
The Greer radar (KGSP), 110 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:35 UTC.
2 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
County comms reported two trees blown down on a car on Brandon Road near Warrens Way.
County comms reported a medical facility was struck by lightning, igniting a fire that was confined to the attic.
Emergency manager reported a 50-year-old male was hospitalized after being struck by lightning at a golf course just west of Taylorsville.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2025Every state in 2025This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, July 2025
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: 1285807, 1285809, 1285808.