2 flash flood, 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 Raleigh, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 10, 1:30 PM EST, 3 hours 33 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 230 PM EDT SUN AUG 10 2003 SCT SHOWERS AND TSTMS WILL CONT INTO TNT AS LOCATIONS OF THE CONVECTIVE FLARE UPS ARE BEING ENHANCED BY UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE WITH WEAK EXITING JET AND WEAK UPPER VORT. CONVECTION FIRING OVR SC WILL CONT TO LIFT N AND TRAIN INTO CENTRAL NC THIS EVENING. WILL GO WITH 50 THRU THE EVENING HOURS. THERE WILL BE A LITTLE LESS OF A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND TSTMS MON AS DRIER AIR WORKS IN FROM THE W. HOWEVER WITH UPPER TROUGH REMAINING TO THE W AND ANOTHER WEAK IMPULSE MOVING ACROSS THE AREA ALONG WITH GOOD AFTN HEATING WILL KEEP A CHANCE POP IN FOR THE AFTN BUT ACTIVITY SHOULD BE VERY SCT. WITH SUNSHINE MON TEMPS WILL WARM WELL INTO THE MID TO UPPER 80S. MON NIGHT WILL SEE JUST A FEW EVENING SHRA/TSTMS WITH COND REAMING MUGGY. TUE...DEEP UPPER TROUGH REMAINS TO THE W AND BOTH ETA AND GFS HINT AT LIFT INCREASING A LITTLE TUE AFTN AS ANOTHER UPPER VORT SWING NE ACROSS THE AREA. THE ATMOS STILL SEEMS TO LACK A GOOD LOW LEVEL FOCUS AND ACTIVITY SHOULD ONCE AGAIN BE SCT. WILL GO WITH A 40-50 POP TUE AFTN WITH AMPLE SUNSHINE AND HIGHS AGAIN IN THE MID TO UPPER 80S. THIS WET PATTERN FINALLY BEGINS TO TO CHANCE WED AS STRONG HIGH PRES BUILD IN FROM THE EAST AND UPPER TOUGH WEAKENS AND RETROGRADE TO THE W. THIS WILL ALLOW FOR THE BERMUDA HIGHT TO DOMINATE OUR WEATHER FOR THE LATTER PART OF THE WEEK. WE WILL STILL SEE A CHC OF SHRA/TSTMS WED BUT THE AMOUNT OF ACTIVITY WILL BE VERY SCT. HOT AND HUMID COND WILL SETTLE IN FROM MIDWEEK THROUGH THE WEEKEND AS TEMPS WARM TO 88-92 BY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. THU-MON: MRF AND GFS DIVERG GREATLY FROM CANADIAN AND EUROPEAN MODELS FROM FRI THROUGH THE WEEKEND. MRF AND GFS ATTEMPTING TO DEVELOP A DEEP CLOSED UPPER LOW DROPPING SOUTH ALONG THE EAST COAST FRI INTO THE WEEKEND. THIS PATTERN IS NOT SUPPORTED BY THE CANADIAN AND EUROPEAN SO WILL KEEP POPS OUT OF THE FCST FOR THE WEEKEND AND GO WITH RATHER HOT TEMPS WITH HIGH PRES OVERHEAD. .RAH...NONE. JO
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-110925- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 435 AM EDT SUN AUG 10 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE FROM REPETITIVE HEAVY RAINFALL FROM THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... OUTSIDE OF LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING FROM SCATTERED LATE DAY THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY...TUESDAY...AND WEDNESDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER NETWORK ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED FOR TODAY OR TONIGHT. RFG
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 98 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:02 UTC.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Roads near Carthage and Pinebluff were closed due to flooding.
Numerous roads were flooded. A bridge was flooded on Highway 301.
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
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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5377042, 5377043.