Thunderstorm Wind, Lincoln
- When
- August 17, 3:10 PM EST
- Where
- Lincoln County, 7 mi E of Lincolnton
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 35.467, -81.150
Two large trees were blown down.
Damaging Wind in North Carolina, August 17, 2003
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What forecasters said that day
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 17, 1:41 PM EST, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 1:41 PM EST, 1 hour 29 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 241 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 2003 EAST COAST UPPER TROUGH TO PERSIST THROUGH MON...THEN WILL START PROGRESSING E. BY WED UPPER RIDGE LOCATED OVER OH VALLEY WITH WEAK LOW SOMEWHERE IN DEEP S. COLD FRONT TO DROP S INTO AREA ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG SHORTWAVE. WILL CARRY AFTERNOON CONVECTION OVER INTO EVENING AS LIKEY POPS. WITH SLOW PROGRESS TO FRONT...HAVE SLIGHT CHANCE POP OVERNIGHT. FRONT SLOW TO PUSH S...AND ENOUGH MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY REMAIN FOR SLIGHT CHANCE POPS TUE-THU. BY FRI ANOTHER E COAST TROUGH IS CARVED OUT AS OH VALLEY RIDGE PROGRESSES. MOISTURE INCREASES IN ADVANCE OF ANOTHER COLD FRONT...AND HAVE ADDED CHANCE POPS TO FRI. COLD FRONT CROSSES AREA SAT...WITH ANOTHER DAY OF CHANCE POPS. FRONT SLOWS JUST SE OF AREA SUN...WITH ENOUGH MOISTURE TO WARRANT SLIGHT CHANCE POPS. NOT MUCH TEMPERATURE OR DEW POINT CHANGE THIS PACKAGE...AS COOLING BEHIND FRONTS ALMOST NEGLIGIBLE. TEMPERATURES BASICALLY NEAR CLIMATIC NORMALS...WITH A SLIGHT DROP OFF LATE IN WEEK. FCSTID = 7 GSP 70 89 68 88 / 60 30 30 20 AND 70 90 69 89 / 60 30 30 20 CLT 70 89 69 88 / 60 30 30 20 HKY 69 88 67 87 / 60 30 30 20 AVL 64 85 64 83 / 60 30 30 20 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. O7
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 17, 4:45 AM EST, 10 hours 25 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-171145- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 545 AM EDT SUN AUG 17 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SLOWLY TOWARD THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA TODAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ACCOMPANY THIS FRONT INTO THE AREA. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULE PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER AND LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING. PLEASE SEE THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...CAESPSGSP FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ON MONDAY. A FEW SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK IS EXPECTED TO BE DRIER...WITH NO MORE THAN ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED THROUGH THE PERIOD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY. LANE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 17, 10:38 AM EST, 4 hours 32 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-172100- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1138 AM EDT SUN AUG 17 2003 ...SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... A FRONT DRAPED ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY AND CENTRAL APPALACHIANS THIS MORNING...WILL SAG SLOWLY TOWARD THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AN UPPER AIR DISTURBANCE WILL ALSO MOVE TOWARD THE AREA. AS THIS DISTURBANCE INTERACTS WITH THE FRONT AND AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS...SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP EARLY TO MID AFTERNOON ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS...FOOTHILLS...AND PIEDMONT OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. THE STORMS SHOULD THEN MOVE INTO UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THE ATMOSPHERE WAS WORKED OVER PRETTY WELL YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING BY THUNDERSTORMS...AND SURFACE MOISTURE WAS NOT QUITE AS HIGH LATE THIS MORNING...AS IT HAS BEEN DURING RECENT DAYS. HOWEVER...THE DEGREE OF INSTABILITY EXPECTED DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING STILL WILL BE ENOUGH TO CAUSE SOME STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS BEING THE PRIMARY THREAT. IN ADDITION...LOCALLY HEAVY OR EXCESSIVE RAINFALL MAY RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING IN SOME AREAS. ALSO...LARGE HAIL TO ABOUT QUARTER SIZE MAY OCCUR IN SOME STORMS. SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO ACTIVATE QUICKLY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. DISPATCHERS SHOULD ENSURE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ARE AWARE OF THIS INFORMATION. JONES
Special weather statement, Aug 17, 2:32 PM EST, 38 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-SCZ011-012-019-180000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 332 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 2003 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THREAT BECOMING MORE LIKELY FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND THE LOWER PIEDMONT IN SOUTH CAROLINA... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES HAVE ALREADY BEEN ISSUED FARTHER NORTH. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA LATE THIS AFTERNOON. SOME OF THESE MAY BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. ALSO...LOCALLY EXCESSIVE RAINFALL MAY OCCUR...CAUSING URBAN OR FLASH FLOODING. AN EVEN BETTER CHANCE OF ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER MAY COME LATER IN THE EVENING...WHEN LINES OR CLUSTER OF STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE MEDIA FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION OR SEVERE WEATHER WATCHES OR WARNINGS. JONES
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Missouri, August 17 to 23, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Hail in North Carolina, August 17, 2003
- Tropical Storm in Guam, August 17, 2003
- Lightning Strike in New Jersey, August 17, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, August 17, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, August 17, 2003
- Flash Flood and Hail in Virginia, August 17, 2003
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in South Carolina, August 17, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Virginia, August 17, 2003
- Flash Flooding in New York, August 17, 2003
- Heat in Kansas, August 17 to 23, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 17, 2003
More
Every storm in North Carolina in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, August 2003
Sources
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: 5374161.