Damaging Wind in Georgia, August 17, 2003

Name: Damaging Wind in Georgia, August 17, 2003
Start: 2003-08-17T16:50
End: 2003-08-17T16:50
Location: Georgia

August 17, 2003 · NWS GSP · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $1,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

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.

What forecasters said that day

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 Aug 17, 1:41 PM EST, 3 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 1:41 PM EST, 3 hours 9 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
241 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 2003

EAST COAST UPPER TROUGH TO PERSIST THROUGH MON...THEN WILL START
PROGRESSING E. BY WED UPPER RIDGE LOCATED OVER OH VALLEY WITH WEAK
LOW SOMEWHERE IN DEEP S. COLD FRONT TO DROP S INTO AREA ACCOMPANIED
BY STRONG SHORTWAVE. WILL CARRY AFTERNOON CONVECTION OVER INTO
EVENING AS LIKEY POPS. WITH SLOW PROGRESS TO FRONT...HAVE SLIGHT
CHANCE POP OVERNIGHT. FRONT SLOW TO PUSH S...AND ENOUGH MOISTURE AND
INSTABILITY REMAIN FOR SLIGHT CHANCE POPS TUE-THU.

BY FRI ANOTHER E COAST TROUGH IS CARVED OUT AS OH VALLEY RIDGE
PROGRESSES. MOISTURE INCREASES IN ADVANCE OF ANOTHER COLD
FRONT...AND HAVE ADDED CHANCE POPS TO FRI. COLD FRONT CROSSES AREA
SAT...WITH ANOTHER DAY OF CHANCE POPS. FRONT SLOWS JUST SE OF AREA
SUN...WITH ENOUGH MOISTURE TO WARRANT SLIGHT CHANCE POPS.

NOT MUCH TEMPERATURE OR DEW POINT CHANGE THIS PACKAGE...AS COOLING
BEHIND FRONTS ALMOST NEGLIGIBLE. TEMPERATURES BASICALLY NEAR
CLIMATIC NORMALS...WITH A SLIGHT DROP OFF LATE IN WEEK.

FCSTID =    7
GSP   70  89  68  88 /  60  30  30  20
AND   70  90  69  89 /  60  30  30  20
CLT   70  89  69  88 /  60  30  30  20
HKY   69  88  67  87 /  60  30  30  20
AVL   64  85  64  83 /  60  30  30  20

.GSP...
GA...NONE.
NC...NONE.
SC...NONE.

O7

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 17, 4:45 AM EST, 12 hours 5 minutes before

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014-
019-171145-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
545 AM EDT SUN AUG 17 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA...
UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY

A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SLOWLY TOWARD THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND
NORTHEAST GEORGIA TODAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ACCOMPANY
THIS FRONT INTO THE AREA. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULE PRODUCE SEVERE
WEATHER AND LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING. PLEASE SEE THE SEVERE WEATHER
OUTLOOK...CAESPSGSP FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ON MONDAY. A
FEW SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK IS
EXPECTED TO BE DRIER...WITH NO MORE THAN ISOLATED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED THROUGH THE PERIOD.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY.

LANE

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 17, 2:32 PM EST, 2 hours 18 minutes before

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-SCZ011-012-019-180000-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
332 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 2003

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THREAT BECOMING MORE LIKELY FOR NORTHEAST
GEORGIA AND THE LOWER PIEDMONT IN SOUTH CAROLINA...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES HAVE ALREADY BEEN ISSUED FARTHER NORTH.
ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER
UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA LATE THIS AFTERNOON.
SOME OF THESE MAY BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WIND GUSTS.  ALSO...LOCALLY EXCESSIVE RAINFALL MAY OCCUR...CAUSING
URBAN OR FLASH FLOODING.

AN EVEN BETTER CHANCE OF ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER MAY COME LATER IN
THE EVENING...WHEN LINES OR CLUSTER OF STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE
THROUGH.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE MEDIA FOR THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATION OR SEVERE WEATHER WATCHES OR WARNINGS.

JONES

Special weather statement, Aug 17, 3:18 PM EST, 1 hour 32 minutes before

NCZ068>071-SCZ009-172119-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
418 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 2003

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO AFFECT LAKE NORMAN AND THE CHARLOTTE
METRO AREA...

AT 415 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25
MPH. THROUGH 5 PM...THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT THE SOUTHERN PART OF
LAKE NORMAN AS WELL AS INTERSTATE 77 BETWEEN HUNTERSVILLE AND
CHARLOTTE. ANOTHER CLUSTER OF STRONG STORMS WILL AFFECT THE
SOUTHEAST PART OF CLEVELAND COUNTY...BETWEEN SHELBY AND KINGS
MOUNTAIN.

BOTH OF THESE CLUSTERS OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS OF UP TO 55 MPH...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND TORRENTIAL RAIN. IF THE STORMS
BECOME A LITTLE STRONGER...WARNINGS WILL BE NEEDED.

MCAVOY

Local storm report, Aug 17, 3:46 PM EST, 1 hour 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
446 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 2003

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

410 PM     7 E LINCOLNTON            NC   WIND DAMAGE
08/17/03   LINCOLN                        TRAINED HAM SPOTTER
                                          REPORTED TWO TREES DOWN
                                          ON HWY 150...ONE 18 IN
                                          DIAMETER AND THE OTHER
                                          ABOUT 12.

415 PM     3 E CHERRYVILLE           NC   NON-SVR REPORT
08/17/03   GASTON                         HAM REPORTED 45-50 MPH
                                          WIND GUST...TORRENTIAL
                                          RAIN PARTIALLY IMPEDING
                                          TRAFFIC AND FREQUENT
                                          LIGHTNING.

LAMB

Local storm report, Aug 17, 4:07 PM EST, 43 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
507 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 2003

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

448 PM     WACO                      NC   WIND DAMAGE
08/17/03   CLEVELAND                      EMERGENCY PERSONNEL
                                          REPORTED TREES DOWN.

459 PM     SHELBY                    NC   WIND DAMAGE
08/17/03   CLEVELAND                      EMERGENCY PERSONNEL
                                          REPORTED TREES DOWN.

RB

Local storm report, Aug 17, 4:08 PM EST, 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
508 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 2003

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

450 PM     BELWOOD                   NC   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/17/03   CLEVELAND                      SPOTTER REPORTED GOLFBALL
                                          SIZE HAIL AND 40 MPH WIND
                                          GUST.

LAMB

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Habersham

When: August 17, 4:50 PM EST
Where: Habersham County, Cornelia
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
Property damage: $1,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 34.517, -83.517

Trees and power lines were blown down.

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Georgia in 2003 Every state in 2003 This day in weather history Warnings in Georgia, August 2003

Sources

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: 5374216.