1 hail, 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 Columbia, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 19, 1:45 PM EST, 9 hours 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 145 PM EST WED MAR 19 2003 GENERALLY WET SCENARIO FOR THE AREA INTO EARLY FRIDAY. CLOSED UPPER LOW NOW OVER SOUTHERN PLAINS LIFTS TO THE NE AS UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE AND GOOD OMEGA DEVELOPS OVER OUR CWA. AIRMASS OVER OUR AREA BECOMES MODERATELY UNSTABLE MAINLY TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY AS WARM FRONT LIFTS TO THE NORTH WITH LIS REACHING -4 TO -6 OVERNIGHT. EXPECT LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WITH AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY WITH POSSIBLE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. WITH SOILS ALREADY NEARLY SATURATED...WILL MAINTAIN FLOOD WATCH FOR ENTIRE AREA TONIGHT AND THURSDAY. WILL CONTINUE POPS NEAR 100 PCT TONIGHT AND THURSDAY...AND LIKELY THURSDAY NIGHT. THUNDER MAY BE POSSIBLE FRIDAY...BUT FOR NOW WILL JUST GO WITH SHOWERS AS COLD FRONT APPROACHES. CROSS SECTIONS SHOWING LOW LEVEL MOISTURE NOT AS GREAT BY FRIDAY. COLD FRONT SLOWLY PUSHES OFF THE ATLANTIC COAST BY LATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON. FOR THE EXTENDED...DRY WEATHER PREVAILS. WILL REMOVE PREVIOUS MENTION OF RAIN FOR MONDAY. TEMPERATURES AT OR JUST ABOVE NORMAL THROUGH NEXT WEDNESDAY. FCSTID = 22 CAE 60 74 61 75 / 100 100 60 50 AGS 59 75 60 75 / 100 100 60 50 SSC 60 74 60 74 / 100 100 60 50 OGB 60 75 61 76 / 100 100 60 50 .CAE... GA...FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT AND THURSDAY FOR ZONES GAZ040... GAZ063>065...GAZ077. SC...FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT AND THURSDAY FOR ZONES SCZ015>016... SCZ018...SCZ020>022...SCZ025>031...SCZ035>038...SCZ041. BC
GAZ040-063>065-077-SCZ015-016-018-020>022-025>031-035>038-041-191300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 557 AM EST WED MAR 19 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MIDLANDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA. .DAY ONE... RIVER FLOODING WILL CONTINUE TODAY ALONG THE CONGAREE RIVER AT CAROLINA EASTMAN. THE RIVER SHOULD SLOWLY FALL THROUGHOUT THE DAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP TONIGHT. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE STORMS WILL ALSO PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. A FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS POSSIBLE. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED THROUGH FRIDAY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS FROM 1 TO 2 INCHES WILL BE COMMON WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE WITH THUNDERSTORMS. A FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THURSDAY. ADDITIONAL RIVER FLOODING COULD OCCUR WITH MORE RAINFALL EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LCV
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Public called and reported 3/4 to 1 inch hail. Several cars had been damaged.
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