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 Columbia, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 26, 9:42 AM EST, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 1042 AM EDT SAT JUL 26 2003 WL CONT FFA FOR ALL COUNTIES HOWEVER WTH SLO MOVEMENT OF SYS MOSLY LKLY AREA FOR FLOODING SOUTH AND EAST TODAY. RADAR SHOWS LRG AREAS OF HVY RAINFALL MOVING NORTHWARD INTO AREA. MODELS DIVERGE ON STORM TRACK WTH ETA SHOWG WESTWARD MOVEMENT. RUC IS TOO FAR NORTH WITH CURRENT POSTION. WL LOWER POPS TO CHC CAT ACRS NRN TIER OF COUNTIES GIVEN SLO NW MOVEMENT AND DRIER AMS OVER THS AREA. TEMPS MAY NOT MAKE IT OUT OF THE 70S IF IT RAINS ALL DAY. WL DROP TEMPS BACK TO NEAR 80 MOST AREAS. TA FCSTID = 14 CAE 80 72 89 71 / 70 60 40 40 AGS 80 71 89 70 / 80 70 40 40 SSC 80 73 90 72 / 80 50 40 40 OGB 80 73 91 72 / 80 50 40 40 .CAE... GA...FLOOD WATCH FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR ZONES GAZ040... GAZ063>065...GAZ077. SC...FLOOD WATCH FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR ZONES SCZ015>016... SCZ018...SCZ020>022...SCZ025>031...SCZ035>038...SCZ041.
GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-261245- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 625 AM EDT SAT JUL 26 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MIDLANDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA. .DAY ONE... LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN FROM TROPICAL DEPRESSION SEVEN MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING ACROSS THE AREA TODAY INTO TONIGHT. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION SEE THE LATEST ADVISORY FROM THE TROPICAL PREDICTION CENTER. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 100 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:47 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
EOC reported flash flooding across roads in southern portions of the county. Hwy 56 was temporarily closed along with a few other roads.
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