1 heavy rain, 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 Apr 5, 3:14 AM EST, 3 hours 31 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 314 AM EST SAT APR 5 2003 COLD FRONT TO OUR WEST QUITE EVIDENT PER UPSTREAM 88-D REFLECTIVITY LOOPS...WITH A DEVELOPING LINE OF STRONG CONVECTION LINING UP ACROSS MIDDLE TENNESSEE. THIS LINE...AT ITS PRESENT RATE OF MOVEMENT...WILL ENTER OUR WESTERN CWFA EARLY THIS MORNING. FORCING...MEANWHILE...ROTATES TO THE NORTHEAST...LEAVING THE FRONT TO GO IT ALONE AS IT CROSSES THE REGION. BOTH GFS AND ETA AGREE SOMEWHAT THAT ANY PRECIPITATION WITH THIS FRONT WILL BE OUT WELL AHEAD OF THE MAIN FRONT ITSELF. TIME HEIGHTS DRY OUT DRAMATICALLY THIS AFTERNOON FROM WEST TO EAST FROPA ITSELF APPEARS TO BE EARLY EVENING BEFORE CLEARING ALL OF THE CWFA. GIVEN THAT THE FRONT WILL BE ACROSS THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT AT TIME OF MAXIMUM HEATING...AND WITH ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL SHEAR PRESENT THROUGH MID AFTERNOON...WE COULD SEE SOME STRONG CONVECTION THIS AFTERNOON. MODEL INSTABILITY NOT GREAT...HOWEVER...WITH CAPES NOT QUITE REACHING 1000 J/KG AND LIFTED INDICES JUST BARELY BELOW ZERO. LOW WET BULB ZEROS SUGGEST A CHANCE OF HAIL WITH ANY CONVECTION THIS AFTERNOON. FRONT PROGD BY MODELS TO STALL TO OUR SOUTH TONITE...THEN SLOWLY RETURN NORTHWARD AS ANOTHER SURFACE WAVE DEVELOPS ALONG THE GULF COAST AND TREKS TOWARD THE CENTRAL APPALACHIANS. MOISTURE WITH THE FRONT GETS SHUNTED TO THE SOUTH...BUT POST FRONTAL UPGLIDE BEGINS ACROSS THE SAVANNAH RIVER VALLEY AS EARLY AS THE SUNDAY PREDAWN. STRONG 1041MB HIGH BUILDING SOUTH SIMULTANEOUSLY PROVIDES INGREDIENTS FOR A CLASSIC COLD AIR DAMMING EVENT. STRONG VORTS CROSSING THE REGION IN FAST SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT SHOULD ENHANCE PRECIP AMOUNTS AS SURFACE WAVE TREKS NORTHEAST...AND DRAGS FRONT SLOWLY WITH IT. POSSIBLE THERMAL MOISTURE BOUNDARY TO SET UP SHOP ACROSS CAROLINA PIEDMONT AND TREK SLOWLY TO THE WEST. WILL INTRODUCE CHANCE POPS FOR SUNDAY...AND CATEGORICAL SUNDAY NIGHT..WITH THUNDER CHANCE FOR MOUNTAINS...NORTHEAST GEORGIA...AND ALL OF OUR SOUTHERN AND SOUTHEAST TIER COUNTIES FOR SUNDAY NITE AND MONDAY. EXPECT PRECIP TO END FROM SOUTH AND WEST MONDAY AFTERNOON. SHOULD BE RATHER RAW LATE SUNDAY NITE AND EARLY MONDAY...WITH AGEOSTROPHIC SURFACE WIND ADJUSTMENTS AND TIGHTENING GRADIENT KEEPING BRISK TO WINDY CONDITIONS IN PLACE. FOR TEMPERATURES...WENT MUCH BELOW GUIDANCE FOR MONDAY...WITH 50 TO 55 NORTH (1000/85H THICKNESS DOWN TO 1320M INTERSTATE 40 CORRIDOR) TO 65 TO 70 MOUNTAINS AND SOUTHERN TIER ZONES. MOST OF DAMMING REGION SHOULD STAY IN 50S THROUGH MONDAY...IF NOT SEE TEMPERATURES ACTUALLY DROP THROUGH 40S SUNDAY NITE AND MONDAY IN THE NORTH. DAY 1 THROUGH 5 PRECIP FROM NCEP PAINTS A WIDE SWATH OF 2 TO 3 INCH RAINFALL AMOUNTS ACROSS SOUTHERN HALF OF OUR CWFA. SOME OF THAT...NO DOUBT...ATTRIBUTED TO SOME OF THE LONGER RANGE MODELS DEVELOPING YET ANOTHER GULF COASTAL SYSTEM FOR MIDWEEK...KEEPING RAIN OVER OUR REGION THROUGH THURSDAY (GFS AND CANADIAN FEATURE THIS). OUR GRIDS AND CORRESPONDING ZONES...HOWEVER...AT THIS TIME FEATURE NO PRECIPITATION BEYOND MONDAY. WILL TRY TO COORDINATE THIS WITH OTHER OFFICES BEFORE GOING TO PRESS BUT NEXT SHIFT WILL DEFINITELY WANT TO CAREFULLY LOOK AT INCLUSION OF MIDWEEK PRECIP. FCSTID = 44 GSP 77 46 63 48 / 30 20 40 90 AND 78 49 64 49 / 40 20 50 90 CLT 78 45 62 48 / 40 20 40 80 HKY 76 43 61 44 / 40 10 30 80 AVL 72 40 63 45 / 40 10 40 80 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. BURRUS
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-051300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 559 AM EST SAT APR 5 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY A COLD FRONT WILL CROSS THE REGION TODAY...USHERING IN A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME QUITE STRONG...AND THERE IS AN OUTSIDE CHANCE THAT ONE OR TWO COULD BRIEFLY REACH SEVERE STATUS. HEAVY RAIN COULD FALL IN THE MOUNTAINS THIS MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A PROLONGED PERIOD OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN APPEARS TO BE SHAPING UP FOR THE END OF THE WEEKEND...AND THE START OF THE NEW WEEK...ESPECIALLY FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND THE UPSTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. SOME LOCATIONS COULD RECEIVE OVER THREE INCHES OF RAIN BY MIDWEEK...ENOUGH TO GENERATE LARGE RISES ON AREA STREAMS...CREEKS AND RIVERS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATER TODAY...ESPECIALLY IN THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT. SAB
NCZ033-048>053-058-059-062-051130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 516 AM EST SAT APR 5 2003 ...LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... AT 510 AM EST...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH EAST TENNESSEE...TOWARD WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. AT THE CURRENT SPEED...AROUND 40 MPH MOVEMENT TO THE EAST...THE LINE WILL REACH THE STATE LINE AROUND 6 AM...AND MOVE THROUGH THE WESTERN MOUNTAIN COUNTIES BETWEEN 6 AND 7 AM. ONE STORM NEAR KNOXVILLE HAS BEEN SEVERE...WITH THE MORRISTOWN NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE RELAYING A REPORT OF QUARTER SIZE HAIL WEST OF KNOXVILLE. ALSO...SOME STRONG WIND GUSTS WERE REPORTED. THE LINE OF STORMS WILL CAUSE HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...WIND GUSTS FROM 40 TO 50 MPH...AND LIKELY SOME HAIL. IT IS POSSIBLE ISOLATED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH OR HIGHER...AND LARGE HAIL COULD OCCUR WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. LISTEN TO WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA SOURCE...FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLY WARNINGS. JONES
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
Gusty winds produced by a weakening line of thunderstorms combined with heavy rainfall to cause a few trees to fall onto power lines.
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5354480.