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 Newport/Morehead City, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 11, 1:00 AM EST, 5 hours 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 200 AM EDT TUE AUG 11 2003 A WEAK VORT WILL MOVE NE ACROSS E NC THIS MORNING AND COULD TRIGGER SOME SCT SHRA/ISOLD TSTMS BUT APPEARS MAIN ACTION WILL BE OFFSHORE. NO REAL TRIGGERING MECHANISM THIS AFTN OTHER THAN SEA BREEZE BOUNDARY. SO FOR THIS MORNING WILL GO WITH 30 POPS NEAR THE COAST AND 20 INLAND AND VICE VERSA FOR THIS AFTN. DRIER WX IS IN THE OFFING AS UPPER TROUGH TO OUR W RETROGRADES AND THEN UPPER HIGH/RIDGE TO OUR E MOVES W BEGINNING TOMORROW. BASICALLY NEAR CLIMO POPS THROUGH FRI. WILL NOT TAMPER WITH EXTENDED AS WEEKEND LOOKS PRETTY NICE FOR NOW. LATEST GFS TRIES TO WORK A COLD FRONT INTO OUR CWA SAT BUT AT THIS POINT LOOKS LIKE IT WILL HANG UP N OF OUR CWA. TEMPS...GUIDANCE NUMBERS ARE CLOSE AND WILL BLEND WITH A LITTLE MORE WEIGHT TOWARD MET AS IT DID A GOOD JOB WITH YESTERDAYS HIGHS FOR OUR CWA. .MARINE...CURRENT BUOY TRENDS SHOWING A DECREASE IN SEA HEIGHTS NEAR SHORE WITH PERIODS GENERALLY REMAINING BELOW 8 SECONDS. THIS IS IN LINE WITH TRENDS IN FORECAST AND CURRENT WWIII GUIDANCE. MODELS INDICATE LESSENING OF WIND FIELD THROUGH THE EARLY PORTION OF THE FORECAST ALONG WITH A GRADUAL DECREASE IN SEA HEIGHTS. STILL... NUMBERS INDICATE SOME RESIDUAL SE SWELL THROUGH MUCH OF THE FORECAST AROUND PERIPHERY OF BERMUDA HIGH. NEAR SHORE WINDS WILL FIGHT THIS THOUGH THROUGH LATTER PORTIONS OF FORECAST AS LARGE HIGH TRIES TO BUILD INLAND AND WEAK SFC TROF DROPS SOUTHWARD ALONG THE COAST BY MIDDAY SAT. THIS SHOULD HELP TO CREATE SFC WINDS MORE SW TO W WITH SOME WIND WAVE ON TOP OF SWELL BY LATE IN THE PERIOD. WILL MENTION MODERATE RIPS SOUTH OF HATTERAS TODAY. GIVEN DECREASE IN WIND ENERGY AND DECREASE WAVE ENERGY RIP THREAT MAY BE EVEN A BIT LOWER...BUT WILL MAINTAIN HEIGHTENED AWARENESS GIVEN EVENTS OF PAST FEW DAYS. .MHX...NONE. WS/MF
NCZ029-044>047-079>081-090>095-098-103-104-111100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC 333 AM EDT MON AUG 11 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...WITH GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES ARE EXPECTED. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL COULD PRODUCE FLOODING IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. THERE IS ALSO A MODERATE THREAT OF RIP CURRENTS ALONG THE BEACHES SOUTH OF CAPE HATTERAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING ARE EXPECTED THROUGH FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 8
The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 79 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:23 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Beaufort County 911 Center reported that part of highway 264 near NC 32 flooded.
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: 5334655.