1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 23, 2:53 AM EST, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 353 AM EDT SAT AUG 23 2003 CONVECTION COVERS MOST OF THE NORTHWEST TIER OF THE CWFA THIS MORNING...WILL BLANKET NORTHERN MOUNTAINS AND NORTHERN FOOTHILLS WITH LIKELY POPS THIS MORNING. CONVECTION APPEARS TO BE DEVELOPING IN WEAK CONVERGENT AREA AHEAD OF SURFACE COLD FRONT...HELPED ALONG BY OUTFLOW FROM UPSTREAM CONVECTION. THE COLD FRONT IS STILL PROGD TO CROSS THE FORECAST AREA FROM NORTH TO SOUTH FROM LATE MORNING THROUGH EARLY EVENING. KEPT CHANCE POPS IN FOR ALL AREAS FOR AFTERNOON...50S NORTH AND NORTHWEST AND 40S SOUTHERN TIER. UPPER FORCING IS NOT GREAT FOR CONVECTION...BUT BOTH ETA AND GFS DO HAVE A WEAKENING VORT DRIFTING INTO THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS AT THE TIME OF MAXIMUM HEATING. VERY DRY AIR ALOFT ABOVE A STILL RATHER MOIST LOWER LAYER CREATES THETA-E LAPSES IN THE 35 TO 40 K RANGE...WHICH SHOULD BE ENOUGH FOR GUSTY WINDS AND SOME HAIL. SOUNDINGS SUGGEST WARMING TEMPERATURES ALOFT PRODUCING A WEAK CAP BY LATE IN THE DAY...BUT THIS CAP IS NOT PRESENT FROM LATE MORNING THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. FORECAST SOUNDINGS BY 18Z VERY UNSTABLE IN THE HIGHER TERRAIN...ALTHOUGH WOULD THINK FRONT WILL BE CLEARING THE NORTHERN TIER OF THE CWFA BY THAT TIME. GIVEN COVERAGE OF SEVERE WEATHER IN THE CWFA ON FRIDAY...AND BETTER FORCING FOR CONVECTION WITH FRONTAL BOUNDARY IN THE AREA TODAY AS OPPOSED TO LEE TROF THAT ACTED TO FOCUS CONVECTION YESTERDAY...WILL ISSUE A SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR ALL THE CWFA AGAIN TODAY. MOISTURE GRADIENT TIGHTENS NEAR THE CAROLINA BORDER BY LATE AFTERNOON AS FRONT SAGS SOUTH. WILL KEEP MENTION OF EVENING POPS FOR THE SOUTHERN TIER ZONES...GREENVILLE/SPARTANBURG SOUTH BUT REMOVE FROM ALL OF THE NORTH CAROLINA PORTION OF OUR FORECAST AREA. THEN...UNSEASONABLY DRY AIR INVADES THE REGION...SETTING THE STAGE FOR A FANTASTIC END TO THE WEEKEND ACROSS THE NORTHERN ZONES. MADE NO CHANGES TO DEWPOINT GRIDS FROM PREVIOUS SET...IMPLYING THAT EVEN THE UPSTATE AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA WILL SEE A DAY OR TWO OF LOWER DEWPOINTS...BEFORE MOISTURE RETURN BEGINS MONDAY AHEAD OF THE NEXT FRONT THAT IS PROGD TO COME IN BY MIDWEEK. FCSTID = 44 GSP 91 70 86 66 / 40 20 10 10 AND 91 71 88 67 / 40 30 10 10 CLT 90 68 86 65 / 40 20 10 10 HKY 89 65 84 62 / 40 20 10 10 AVL 84 63 83 60 / 50 20 10 10 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. BURRUS
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-221200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 601 AM EDT FRI AUG 22 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY SCATTERED AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AGAIN TODAY. ONE OR TWO OF THE STORMS COULD BRIEFLY REACH SEVERE LEVELS...BUT WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. ANY STORMS THAT DO FORM WILL BE SLOW MOVERS...ENHANCING THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL AT ANY ONE LOCATION. SEE THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...UNDER PRODUCT LABEL CAESPSGSP...FOR MORE INFORMATION ON OUR SEVERE WEATHER PROSPECTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO CROSS OUR REGION SATURDAY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE ANTICIPATED AGAIN...WITH ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE. A PERIOD OF FAIR WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED FOLLOWING THE SATURDAY FRONTAL PASSAGE...BEFORE ANOTHER COLD FRONT RETURNS THE CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FOR MIDWEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. BURRUS
NCZ049-050-230845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 343 AM EDT SAT AUG 23 2003 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL RAIN AFFECTING MITCHELL COUNTY... AT 343 AM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHERN MITCHELL COUNTY...NEAR THE TOWN OF BULADEAN. THE STORM WAS DRIFTING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES AN HOUR...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY THE STORM AS IT MOVES INTO BAKERSVILLE BY 4 AM. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN EASTERN TENNESSEE AND MAY MOVE ACROSS THE SAME PARTS OF NORTHERN MITCHELL COUNTY AFFECTED BY THE FIRST STORM. IF THIS HAPPENS...EVEN GREATER RAINFALL TOTALS WILL RESULT...AND LOCALIZED FLOODING MAY DEVELOP. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL CLOSELY MONITOR THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MCAVOY
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 113 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:01 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
As much as 5 inches of rain fell in only a couple of hours, resulting in flooding along some streams, including Spring Creek and Greasy Creek in the Hughes's Gap area.
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: 5374449.