1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 17, 2:10 PM EST, 5 hours 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 310 PM EDT THU JUL 17 2003 THE SURFACE TROUGH HAS STAYED LARGELY CONFINED TO PIEDMONT SECTIONS EAST OF THE CWA TODAY. FORCING HAS THUS BEEN LARGELY LACKING...AND WARM 700 MB TEMPS CONTINUE TO SUPPLY A WEAK CAP TO THE PROFILES. A FEW SHOWERS KEEP TRYING TO GET STARTED ON RADAR...AND MODEL SOUNDINGS CONTINUE TO SUGGEST THAT WE OVERCOME THE CAPPING VERY LATE THIS AFTERNOON. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP SHOULD BE QUITE STRONG WITH CONSIDERABLE MID LEVEL DRY AIR AND LOW WET BULB ZERO HEIGHTS. HAVE PENCILED IN ISOLATED COVERAGE FOR THE EVENING HOURS...AND WILL ASSESS AGAIN AT ISSUANCE TIME. MODELS AGREE FAIRLY WELL THAT WEAK LEE TROUGH SLIDES WEST TOWARD THE BLUE RIDGE TOMORROW AS COLD FRONT MOVES STEADILY SOUTH DOWN THE APPALACHIANS. INSTABILITY SHOULD BUBBLE BACK UP BY LATE DAY...BUT THE BEST COMBINATION OF DEEPER MOISTURE...LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE WITH FRONT...AND UPPER SUPPORT ASSOC WITH FALLING UPPER HEIGHTS MAY BE LATE FRIDAY NIGHT. FRONTAL BAND SLOWLY DISSIPATES THROUGH SATURDAY BUT WITH ENOUGH CLOUDS AND SCATTERED PRECIP TO HOLD TEMPERATURES DOWN AT LEAST A CATEGORY OVER FRI MAXES. PATTERN IS BACK TO DIURNAL TRENDS FOR SUNDAY AND MONDAY BEFORE SHARPER ERN TROUGH AND FRONT RETURN BY TUE. STRENGTHENING DYNAMICS AND UPPER FLOW UNDER TROUGH WILL BOOST PRECIP CHANCES AND SEVERE WEATHER THREAT FOR TUE INTO WED. GFS-ADVERTISED WAVE ALONG FRONT FOR WED REMAINS SOMEWHAT SUSPICIOUS GIVEN ALL THE CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK EXHIBITED BY GFS RECENTLY. WILL STILL LEAN TOWARD SLOWER TROUGH PROGRESSION WITH DRY WEATHER FEATURED FOR THU. FCSTID = 33 GSP 68 90 69 86 / 20 30 30 30 AND 69 91 70 87 / 20 30 30 30 CLT 68 90 70 86 / 20 30 40 40 HKY 66 88 67 84 / 20 30 40 40 AVL 63 87 64 81 / 20 30 30 40 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. HG
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-171200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 605 AM EDT THU JUL 17 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AGAIN TODAY...MAINLY LATE IN THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY IN THE EVENING. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE MICROBURST TYPE WIND DAMAGE. THE STORMS WILL ALSO BE SLOW MOVING WHICH WILL ENHANCE THE POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING. FOR MORE INFORMATION...SEE THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK (SPSGSP) ISSUED AT 427 AM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED EACH DAY. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL ON ANY GIVEN DAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. MOORE
The Greer radar (KGSP), 108 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:37 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A slow-moving thunderstorm produced very heavy rainfall, which cuased a section of highway 76 to flood in the Persimmon Community.
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