1 heavy rain, 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 14, 1:26 PM EST, 5 hours 49 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 226 PM EDT THU AUG 14 2003 UPPER LEVEL RIDGE TO CONTINUE RETROGRESSION...WITH ANOTHER EAST COAST TROUGH BEING CARVED OUT BY SHORTWAVES BY SAT. IMPULSE DROPPING S ACROSS AREA THIS EVENING. BEST INSTABILITY E...BUT OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS ALREADY RESULTING IN CONVECTION W. PLENTY OF DEEP MOISTURE TO WORK WITH. AREA BETWEEN IMPULSES FRI...WITH MID LEVELS DRIER. INSTABILITY AGAIN BEST IN E. A SLIGHTLY STRONGER IMPULSE CROSSES AREA SAT...WITH DEEP MOISTURE BACK IN PLACE. STRONG SHORTWAVE CROSSES AREA SUN ACCOMPANIED BY SURFACE COLD FRONT...WITH MID LEVELS DRYING AGAIN. WILL CARRY CHANCE POPS EACH AFTERNOON AND EVENING. TEMPERATURES INITIALLY WARM UNDER UPPER RIDGE...THEN COOLING A COUPLE OF DEGREES AS HEIGHTS FALL IN DIGGING TROUGH. EXTENDED FORECAST STARTS WITH DEEP TROUGH IN PLACE ALONG APPALACHIANS. BY MID TO LATE WEEK A LOW IN THE BASE OF THE TROUGH MOVES OFF TO NE...WITH ANOTHER SHORTWAVE RIGHT BEHIND IT IN BRIEFLY ZONAL FLOW. COLD FRONT TO STALL AND WASH OUT OVER AREA EARLY NEXT WEEK...LEAVING BAND OF MOISTURE ACROSS AREA INTO LATE WEEK. TEMPERATURES NEAR NORMAL BETWEEN NEW E COAST TROUGH AND FLAT RIDGE TO S. FCSTID = 07 GSP 71 90 71 88 / 40 30 30 30 AND 72 91 72 89 / 40 30 30 30 CLT 69 89 70 88 / 40 30 30 30 HKY 68 86 68 86 / 40 30 30 30 AVL 66 83 65 83 / 40 30 30 30 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE.
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-141045- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 439 AM EDT THU AUG 14 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. DICARLO
NCZ071-082-SCZ009-014-142315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 605 PM EDT THU AUG 14 2003 ...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING CONTINUOUS LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL RAIN... AT 600 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LARGE CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM STURDIVANTS TO MONROE AND MATHEWS AND INTO THE WESTERN SUBURBS OF CHARLOTTE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING AN UNUSUAL AMOUNT OF CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING....AS WELL AS VERY HEAVY RAIN AND WINDS GUSTING TO AROUND 40 MPH. IF THE STORMS HOLD TOGETHER...THEY WILL AFFECT AREAS FROM LAKE WYLIE TO ROCK HILL AND FORT LAWN BETWEEN 630 AND 7 PM. MCAVOY
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
721 PM EDT THU AUG 14 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
701 PM WEDDINGTON NC FLASH FLOOD
08/14/03 UNION CREEK THAT FEEDS INTO 12
MILE CREEK...AND THAT IS
NORMALLY 2 FEET WIDE...IS
NOW 50 FEET WIDE AND
FLOODING LAWNS AND PART
OF A DRIVEWAY ALONG
FORREST LAWN DRIVE.
REPORTED VIA HAM RADIO.
MCAVOYPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
753 PM EDT THU AUG 14 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
730 PM WEDDINGTON SC FLASH FLOOD
08/14/03 UNION THE COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS
CENTER REPORTS THAT WATER
RESCUES WERE UNDERWAY IN
THE WESTERN PART OF THE
COUNTY...WITH ROADS
FLOODED IN THE WEDDINGTON
AND INDIAN TRAIL AREAS.
MCAVOYPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
753 PM EDT THU AUG 14 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
730 PM WEDDINGTON NC FLASH FLOOD
08/14/03 UNION THE COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS
CENTER REPORTS THAT WATER
RESCUES WERE UNDERWAY IN
THE WESTERN PART OF THE
COUNTY...WITH ROADS
FLOODED IN THE WEDDINGTON
AND INDIAN TRAIL AREAS.
MCAVOY
...CORRECTED STATE...The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rain resulted in standing water on I-85 near the highway 321 exit. One lane of the interstate was closed.
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: 5333293.