1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 30, 2:25 PM EST, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 325 PM EDT WED APR 30 2003 SH AND TS ARE ONGOING ACROSS THE SPINE OF THE APPALACHIANS AND ACROSS THE PIEDMONT OF NC. EXPECT THAT THE ACTIVITY WILL INCREASE IN COVERAGE FURTHER EAST AND WILL REMAIN INTO THE EVENING. SEVERE CHANCES STILL LOOK GOOD AS PARAMETERS REMAIN FAVORABLE...IN FACT...DEWPOINTS HAVE REMAINED HIGHER THAN EXPECTED RESULTING IN CAPES AROUND 3000 J/KG AT PEAK HEATING. WILL TREND POPS FROM LIKELY OVER THE NRN MTNS DOWN TO 30S EAST OF CLT. AFTER MIDNIGHT...WILL DECREASE POPS TO SCHC AND WILL ADD PATCHY FOG. FOG COULD BECOME DENSE IN SPOTS AS MIN WILL SURPASS CROSSOVER TEMPS. FORECAST CHANGES A BIT FOR THU AS MODELS HAVE ADOPTED THE COASTAL LOW OFF THE SE. WILL FOLLOW MAINLY THE ETA ON THIS FEATURE AS AGAIN THE GFS IS OVER DEVELOPING THE LOW. THE CIRCULATION AROUND THE LOW WILL ADVECT IN MORE STABLE AIR OVER THE NE CWA...BUT AREAS IN THE WEST WILL FEEL LITTLE DIFFERENCE. WILL GO SCHC OVER THE NRN PIEDMONT OF NC AND MAINTAIN CHC OVER THE REST OF THE CWA. WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COASTAL SYSTEM AS THE MAIN LOW...THE COLD FRONT THAT WAS PROGGED FOR FRI HAS SLOWED. IN FACT...FRONT MAY STALL OVER THE CWA FOR SAT...WITH ETA HOLDING ONTO SOME CAPE. WILL DELAY ONSET OF PRECIP TO FRI AFTERNOON AND HOLD ONTO MENTION UNTIL MIDNIGHT. DUE TO THIS CHANGE WILL LEAN AGAINST ADDING POPS TO THE SAT PERIOD...BUT WILL INCREASE POPS TO SCHC TO TREND INTO THE DIRECTION OF MENTION. HIGH PRESSURE IS EXPECTED TO RIDGE DOWN AS IT MOVES PAST TO THE NORTH ON SUNDAY AND EARLY MONDAY. GUIDANCE IS FOLLOWED CLOSELY HERE. ONCE THE HIGH IS OFFSHORE MONDAY AFTERNOON AND A WEAK WARM FRONT LIFTS NORTH...MOISTURE SHOULD BEGIN TO RETURN. WILL INTRODUCE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS FOR THE AFTERNOON. WITH THE MOISTENING RETURN FLOW...HAVE RAISED LOW TEMP MONDAY NIGHT BY A FEW DEGREES ACROSS SC/NE GA. BY TUESDAY...WE SHOULD BE SET UP FOR SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION WITH THE HIGH OFF THE SOUTHEAST COAST AND A SURFACE FRONT TO THE WEST. THE ONLY REAL CHANGE HERE IS TO KEEP A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING BASED ON THE POSITION OF THE COLD FRONT DEPICTED BY HPC AT 12Z WEDNESDAY. FCSTID = 16 GSP 58 79 59 82 / 50 30 30 40 AND 59 80 59 83 / 50 30 30 40 CLT 57 81 59 82 / 40 30 30 40 HKY 58 78 58 79 / 50 20 20 40 AVL 56 75 55 78 / 50 30 30 40 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. NED/MOORE
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-301200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 603 AM EDT WED APR 30 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE... A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE LATER TODAY. FOR FURTHER DETAILS...PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...SPSGSP...ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... EXPECT A DAILY CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS BOTH THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.
NCZ036-037-057-301945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 249 PM EDT WED APR 30 2003 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT... THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON. THROUGH 4 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE NORTH AT 10 TO 15 MPH ACROSS ROWAN COUNTY AND DAVIE COUNTY. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE MARBLE SIZED HAIL...WIND GUSTS OF 50 MPH...AND TORRENTIAL RAIN. SHOULD THESE STORMS DEVELOP ANY FURTHER...A WARNING MIGHT BE NEEDED. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE PROGRESS OF THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. MOORE
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
421 PM EDT WED APR 30 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
415 PM MOUNT MITCHELL SC 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/30/03 YANCEY QUARTER SIZE HAIL
COVERING GROUND.
KRENTZPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
440 PM EDT WED APR 30 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
335 PM 7 E MOCKSVILLE NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/30/03 DAVIE LETTER CARRIERS WITH THE
POSTAL SERVICE REPORTED
SEVERAL INSTANCES OF HAIL
BETWEEN DIME AND QUARTER
SIZE BETWEEN MOCKSVILLE
AND FORK CHURCH.
BURRUSPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
453 PM EDT WED APR 30 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
452 PM 5 NE SYLVA NC .75 INCH HAIL
04/30/03 JACKSON SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTS
DIME SIZE HAIL.
HGPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
559 PM EDT WED APR 30 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
433 PM CELO NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/30/03 YANCEY THREE HAIL EVENTS WITH
QUARTER SIZE TO PEA SIZE
HAIL. STRONG WINDS AND
2.50 RAINFALL.
TJBThe Greer radar (KGSP), 95 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:59 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Several hail storms affected Mt Mitchell State Park, and the hail eventually covered the ground.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, April 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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5354462.