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 Raleigh, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 1, 1:15 PM EST, 6 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 215 PM EDT FRI AUG 1 2003 TONIGHT...BAND OF SHOWERS ACROSS THE WESTERN PIEDMONT ARE IN ASSOCIATION WITH A SURFACE TO 850 MB CONVERGENCE ZONE. THE MODELS INDICATE THAT THIS ZONE WILL MOVE LITTLE OVERNIGHT...SO TRAINING OF CELLS WILL PERSIST IN THIS AREA. PRECIP IS EXPECTED TO BE ENHANCED THIS EVENING BY A VORT MAX OVER TN WHICH WILL MOVE NORTHEAST...ALONG WITH UPPER DIVERGENCE IN THE ENTRANCE REGION OF THE UPPER JET. IN THE EAST THE SEA BREEZE HAS BECOME QUITE ACTIVE THIS AFTERNOON...AND WILL LIKELY PUSH FAR ENOUGH INLAND TO AFFECT OUR SOUTHEASTERN COUNTIES. THUS LIKELY POP ARE WARRANTED EVERYWHERE THIS EVENING. SATURDAY AND SUNDAY...PERSISTENCE WILL LIKELY BE THE BEST FORECAST THROUGH THE WEEKEND WITH A SOUTHERLY FLOW TRANSPORTING DEEP MOISTURE OVER THE AREA AND AN UPPER TROUGH AXIS TO OUR WEST. TIMING OF ENHANCED PRECIP WILL DEPEND ON THE PASSAGE OF WEAK VORTICITY CENTERS AND UPSTREAM MCS DEVELOPMENT...WHICH THE MODELS SEEM TO HAVE DIFFICULTY WITH. HIGHEST POPS WILL BE IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH SLIGHT CHANCES OVERNIGHT. HIGHS IN THE MID TO UPPER 80S WITH LOWS 70 TO 75. MONDAY...POPS INCREASE SLIGHTLY ON MONDAY AS A SHORTWAVE TROUGH ROUNDS THE BASE OF THE CLOSED LOW AND AN UPPER JET TO OUR NORTH ENHANCES DIVERGENCE ALOFT. THE ETA IS SHOWING THE TROPICAL WAVE TO THE NORTH OF PUERTO RICO TRACKING ALONG THE BAHAMAS AND NEAR THE NC COAST EARLY MONDAY. WILL HOLD OFF ON FOLLOWING THIS SOLUTION FOR NOW BUT THE SYSTEM BEARS WATCHING AS THE BERMUDA HIGH COULD STEER THE SYSTEM OUR WAY. TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...THE GFS INDICATES THE DEEP MOISTURE PUSHING EAST OF THE AREA BEHIND THE SHORTWAVE TROUGH THAT CROSSES MONDAY NIGHT. THIS WILL LOWER THE RAIN CHANCES FROM TUESDAY ON...BUT DIURNAL CONVECTION WITH POPS NEAR CLIMO WILL BE CONTINUED DUE TO A PERSISTENT SOUTHERLY LOW LEVEL FLOW. TEMPS NEAR NORMAL EACH DAY. .RAH...NONE. DGS
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-011200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 601 AM EDT FRI AUG 1 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME...HOWEVER... THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF CAUSING MINOR URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO EARLY TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT.
NCZ007-008-023>025-039-040-074-075-012100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 339 PM EDT FRI AUG 1 2003 ...LINE OF STORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN MAY PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING... A BAND OF STORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WILL AFFECT AREAS FROM MEBANE SOUTHWEST TO SNOW CAMP... SILER CITY... AND STAR BY 400 PM. THE LINE WILL THEN MOVE TO NEAR ROUGEMONT... HILLSBOROUGH... PITTSBORO... AND GOLDSTON BY 500 PM. IN ADDITION TO HAVING DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... THESE STORMS MAY DROP AN INCH OR TWO OF RAIN IN JUST AN HOUR. THESE RAINFALL AMOUNTS CAN LEAD TO STREET FLOODING AND WILL FILL UP DRAINAGE DITCHES AND CREEKS. MOTORISTS SHOULD SLOW DOWN IF HEAVY RAIN ENCOUNTERED... TO AVOID THE NEED FOR SUDDEN BRAKING AND POSSIBLE HYDROPLANING. IF YOU SEE WATER COVERING THE ROAD AHEAD OF YOU... DONT TAKE CHANCES. TURN AROUND AND FIND AN ALTERNATE ROUTE. GIH
NCZ007>010-023>026-039>041-073>076-083-084-012230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 520 PM EDT FRI AUG 1 2003 ...A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING ACROSS THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA... A BROKEN BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTHEAST INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. AT 525 PM...THE BAND EXTENDED FROM THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT...JUST NORTH OF ANSONVILLE... NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS ASHEBORO...SILER CITY...BURLINGTON...CHAPEL HILL...AND ROXBORO. ANOTHER BAND WAS FORMING JUST EAST OF THIS LINE...FROM RALEIGH TO SANFORD. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT...FROM NORWOOD TO ALBEMARLE. THEY WILL MOVE NORTHEAST...ACROSS EASTERN STANLY AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES...BRINGING MORE RAIN TO AREAS THAT ALREADY HAVE HAD ONE TO OVER TWO INCHES OF RAIN IN SOME SPOTS. THEREFORE...MINOR FLOODING OF URBAN AND LOW LYING AREAS...AND SMALL STREAMS...WILL BE A HAZARD THROUGH THE RUSH HOUR. OTHER AREAS THAT CAN EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH 630 PM INCLUDE WESTERN WAKE COUNTY...AND THE KERR LAKE RECREATIONAL AREAS. SGY
NCZ010-011-026-027-041-042-074>077-083>086-020115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 747 PM EDT FRI AUG 1 2003 ...A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE PIEDMONT WILL BRING REPEATED HEAVY RAINS TO AREAS IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA THIS EVENING... AT 750 PM...RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS ORIENTED NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST ACROSS CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...EXTENDING FROM SOUTHWEST OF ROANOKE RAPIDS... TO NEAR AND EAST OF RALEIGH...TO SOUTHERN PINES...TO JUST NORTH OF ROCKINGHAM. THE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST....AND THEREFORE ARE BRINGING REPEATED RAINS TO A NARROW BAND ACROSS THE PIEDMONT. RAIN AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF 3 INCHES HAVE BEEN NOTED IN EASTERN WAKE COUNTY...WHERE A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM. OTHER AREAS VULNERABLE TO FLOODING PROBLEMS ARE CENTRAL HARNETT COUNTY AND EASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY...WHERE RAIN AMOUNTS OF ONE AND ONE HALF TO TWO INCHES HAVE BEEN NOTED. THE HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE WATER LEVELS TO RISE RAPIDLY IN CREEKS AND DITCHES. MOTORISTS WILL NEED TO USE EXTREME CAUTION IN AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. NEVER DRIVE INTO A WATER COVERED AREA. SGY
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 20 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:35 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A pond and a creek overflowed their banks, flooding Jordan Road and Ten-Ten Road near Garner. Flooding also occurred on Turnhipseed Road near Wendell.
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, August 2003
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