2 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 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 Charleston, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 3, 8:15 PM EST, 0 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 915 PM EDT SUN AUG 3 2003 PUBLIC... QUITE A SHOW OF INTENSE BOUNDARY COLLISIONS THIS EVENING. VERY PERSISTENT CONVECTION PRODUCING LOCALIZED FLOODING CONTINUES AT THIS HOUR...PINNED ALONG A NEARLY STATIONARY MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AXIS FROM BAXLEY TO BAMBERG. LARGE CONVECTIVE CLUSTER ACROSS SRN TOOMBS COUNTY IS HEADING FOR TATTNALL COUNTY AND COULD CREATE A MORE SERIOUS PROBLEM FROM REIDSVILLE TO GLENNVILLE. SOILS ARE SATURATED AND URBAN RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ABOUT 2 INCHES ARE CAUSING ROAD CLOSURES AND SUBSTANTIAL PONDING IN LOW LYING AREAS. SUSPECT CONVECTION WILL WEAKEN LATER THIS EVENING AND DRIFT TOWARD THE COAST IN GEORGIA AS AREAS OF LIGHT OR MODERATE RAIN. IN SOUTH CAROLINA...MCON IS EXPECTED TO SHIFT TO THE COAST LATER TONIGHT WITH NOCTURNAL DEVELOPMENT A GOOD BET. NO UPDATE AT THIS TIME. MARINE... WILL RAISE SSW FLOW TO 15 KT SOUTH CAROLINA WATERS AND OPEN SEAS TO 2 TO 4 FT. NO OTHER CHANGES. .CHS... GA...NONE. SC...NONE. 24
AMZ330-350-352-354-374-GAZ087-088-099>101-114>119-137>141-SCZ040- 042>045-047>051-031700- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 1115 AM EDT SUN AUG 3 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA... SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS FROM SOUTH SANTEE RIVER SOUTH CAROLINA TO ALTAMAHA SOUND GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. .HEAVY RAINFALL/FLOODING...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE AREA INTO THIS EVENING. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 3 INCHES OR MORE OF RAIN IN A SHORT PERIOD. THIS MAY RESULT IN ISOLATED AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING. .RIVER FLOODING....RIVER FLOOD WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT FOR THE SANTEE RIVER AT JAMESTOWN...THE SAVANNAH RIVER AT CLYO...THE EDISTO RIVER AT GIVHANS FERRY...AND FOR THE OGEECHEE RIVER AT EDEN. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST RIVER FLOOD STATEMENTS FOR MORE SPECIFIC INFORMATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. .RIVER FLOODING...RIVER FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ON MANY THE ABOVE MENTIONED RIVERS THROUGH MID WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE REQUIRED TODAY OR TONIGHT.
GAZ088-100-101-SCZ040-042-040015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 715 PM EDT SUN AUG 3 2003 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT EFFINGHAM COUNTY...BULLOCH COUNTY...SCREVEN COUNTY...ALLENDALE COUNTY AND HAMPTON COUNTY THROUGH 815 PM EDT... AT 715 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF ALLENDALE TO 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF STATESBORO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND AROUND ULMER...SEIGLING...MILBURY...ALLENDALE... WINDFIELD ...WHITE HILL...SOMERSET...PRETORIA...MIDDLEGROUND AND HUNTERS THROUGH 815 PM EDT. EXCESSIVE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES AND LOCALIZED WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. MOVE INSIDE IF STORMS APPROACH YOUR LOCATION. 24
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 117 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:12 UTC.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rainfall flooded U.S. Route 301 and several other roads near Glennville.
Due to very heavy rainfall, 2 miles of Old Groveland Road were under water.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Georgia in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, August 2003
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: 5379177, 5379176.