1 lightning, 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 Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 10, 12:55 PM EST, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 155 PM EDT SUN AUG 10 2003 FREEZING LEVEL A BIT LOWER WITH SLIGHTLY DRYER AIR MOVING IN AT MID LEVELS. UPPER TROF STILL SPINNING WEAK VORT LOBES THRU AREA AND EXPECT ANOTHER ROUND OF AT LEAST SCT TSTMS THROUGH THIS EVE. NOT MUCH CHANGE IN THE PATTERN FOR THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS...THEN THE S PART OF THE UPPER TROF THAT HAS BEEN KEEPING THE SE U.S. IN MOIST UNSTABLE FLOW IS FCST TO CUT OFF AND MOVE W...WITH THE N PART FILLING. AS THIS HAPPENS THE BERMUDA HIGH WILL PUSH INTO THE AREA TOWARD MID WEEK. THERE WILL STILL BE A LOW CHANCE OF LATE DAY TSTMS...BUT COVERAGE SHOULD BE LESS. GFS STILL HINTING AT A TROPICAL WAVE APPROACHING THE FAR SE U.S. BY THE LATTER HALF OF THE WEEK...WHICH COULD AFFECT WEATHER HERE NEXT WEEKEND OR LATER. FCSTID = 77 GSP 67 85 67 86 / 50 40 40 30 AND 67 86 68 86 / 50 40 40 30 CLT 67 85 67 86 / 50 40 40 30 HKY 64 84 65 85 / 60 50 50 30 AVL 62 81 63 82 / 60 50 50 30 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT FOR ZONES NCZ034>035...NCZ054>056. SC...NONE. RB
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-101215- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 621 AM EDT SUN AUG 10 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TODAY AND TONIGHT IN THE NORTHERN FOOTHILLS OF NORTH CAROLINA...FROM MCDOWELL COUNTY TO CALDWELL COUNTY...AND IN ALEXANDER AND CATAWBA COUNTIES. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN THE FORECAST FOR MOST OF THE AREA THROUGH NEXT SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. 07
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
328 PM EDT SUN AUG 10 2003
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320 PM TIGER GA 1/2 INCH HAIL
08/10/03 RABUN EMERGENCY PERSONNEL
REPORTED BETWEEN PEA AND
DIME SIZE HAIL.
RBThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A man was injured in Gorges State Park when the stream he was swimming in was struck by lightning.
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: 5333291.