Thunderstorm Wind, Transylvania
- When
- August 8, 2:00 PM EST
- Where
- Transylvania County, Brevard
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 35.233, -82.733
Some trees were blown down.
Damaging Wind in North Carolina, August 8, 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 8, 9:49 AM EST, 4 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 9:49 AM EST, 4 hours 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1049 AM EDT FRI AUG 8 2003 LATE MORNING UPDATE IS ONLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF CLEANING OUT THE MORNING WORDING INCLUDING MENTION OF FOG. ALSO FOUND MINOR HIGH TEMP ERROR IN GREENVILLE MOUNTAIN GROUP. NO OTHER CHANGES TO PREVIOUS FORECAST. ---------------------------- PREVIOUS DISCUSSION... MINIMAL CHANGE TO THE LARGE SCALE PATTERN THRU TONIGHT WITH L/WV AXIS REMAINING WEST OF THE CWFA. EMBEDDED WITHIN MEAN FLOW... S/WV BEGINNING TO WORK UP FRONT SIDE OF TROUGH ATTM AS PER WV IMAGERY & 00Z ETA SEEMED TO HAVE A GOOD HANDLE ON THIS FEATURE...CONTINUING TO TRANSLATE IT & BEST PCPN ENE OF CWFA BY 12Z. SO...PLAN ON JUST CHC POPS FOR THE MORNING...INCREASING TO LIKELY AS TSTM CVRG SHOULD INCREASE FROM WEST TO EAST DURING THE AFTERNOON WITHIN MOISTURE RICH ENVIRONMENT. HAVE DECIDED TO EXTEND GOING FFA THRU TONIGHT BASED ON THIS AREA RECEIVING HIGHEST RNFL AMTS OVER PAST FEW DAYS AND IS CLOSER TO HIGHER MEAN RH LEVELS...NOT TO MENTION ETA RESPONSE IN DEVELOPING WIDESPREAD DEEP CONVECTION IN THIS AREA AGAIN LATE TODAY AND THIS EVENING. THEN PRETTY MUCH A PERSISTENCE FCST THRU THE WEEKEND AS L/WV TROUGH AXIS IS STILL LOCATED JUST UPSTREAM OF THE CWFA AT 96 HOURS. CONSENSUS FCST IS FOR A SLIGHT DRYING OF MEAN RH LEVELS AS WELL... SO LIKELY POPS FOR TONIGHT EVENTUALLY MIGRATE TO JUST DAILY CHC. .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...FLOOD WATCH THRU TONIGHT NCZ033>037-048>050-053>057-065>072-082. SC...FLOOD WATCH THRU TONIGHT SCZ003-006>009-012>014. OUTLAW/BURRUS/BRUCE
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 8, 5:12 AM EST, 8 hours 48 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-081215- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 612 AM EDT FRI AUG 8 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE... AREAS OF MORNING FOG WILL GIVE WAY TO MIXED SUN AND CLOUDS LATER THIS MORNING WITH INCREASING CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS AS THE AFTERNOON WEARS ON. LOCALIZED EXCESSIVE RAINFALL AND ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION...PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST FLOOD WATCH...FFAGSP... AND SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...SPSGSP...ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A DAILY CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 8, 1:38 PM EST, 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
238 PM EDT FRI AUG 08 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
235 PM BREVARD NC .75 INCH HAIL
08/08/03 TRANSYLVANIA DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY EMERGENCY PERSONNEL.
RBThe 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
- Damaging Winds in Texas, August 8, 2003
- Flash Flooding in Virginia, August 8, 2003
- Lightning Strike in Michigan, August 8, 2003
- Flash Flood in Florida, August 8, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 8, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, August 8, 2003
- Flood in Ohio, August 8, 2003
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, August 8, 2003
- Flash Flood in Maine, August 8, 2003
- Flash Flood in Utah, August 8, 2003
- Flash Flooding in Virginia, August 8, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, August 8, 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: 5374142.