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 9, 6:20 PM EST, 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 720 PM EDT SAT AUG 9 2003 HAVE SENT AN UPDATE ON THE ZFP TO ACCOUNT FOR WIDESPREAD PRECIP ON RADAR MOVING ACROSS NC FOOTHILLS AND INTO THE PIEDMONT. HAVE RAISED POP ACROSS THOSE ZONES...AND ALSO OVER WRN/SRN NC MOUNTAINS WHERE CONVECTION PERSISTS. OTHER MAIN CHANGE WILL BE TO EXTEND SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVERNIGHT. LAST SEVERAL EVENINGS HAVE SEEN CONVECTIVE REDEVELOPMENT DURING LATE EVENING HOURS AND INTO EARLY MORNING. WITH VORT CENTER AND UPPER TROF AXIS STILL TO W...THINK PERSISTENCE IS A GOOD IDEA. TEMPS LEFT ALONE FOR NOW. WILL UPDATE AGAIN LATER THIS EVENING. .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. MOORE ...PREVIOUS DISCUSSION ISSUED AT 317 PM... AFTERNOON CONVECTION IN FULL SWING...WITH DAYTIME HEATING AND DRY AIR ALOFT OVER A MOIST BOUNDARY LAYER INTERACTING WITH A WEAK UPPER VORT. NOT MUCH STORM MOVEMENT...SO CELLS WILL NEED TO BE WATCHED CAREFULLY FOR POTENTIAL EXCESSIVE RAINFALL. WILL HOLD OFF ON FLOOD WATCH AT THIS JUNCTURE. EXPECT MOST ACTIVITY TO FADE BY EVENING...AND PER RECENT TRENDS...HAVE INCLUDED PATCHY DENSE FOG WORDING OVERNIGHT. SUNDAY COULD BE INTERESTING IF THE ETA IS CORRECT IN ITS HANDLING OF A STRONG VORT WHICH PIVOTS ON THE BACK SIDE OF THE LONGWAVE TROF AND APPROACHES OUR MOUNTAINS TOMORROW EVENING. TIME HEIGHTS SHOW VERY DRY AIR IN THE MID LEVELS...WITH WET BULB ZEROES PROGD BELOW 10K FEET ACROSS HIGHER TERRAIN AND BELOW 11K FEET FOOTHILLS. GFS IS SLOWER...BRINGING ITS SHORTAVE INTO THE REGION LATER IN THE SUNDAY NITE PERIOD. REGARDLESS...CHANCE POPS IN ORDER ALL AREAS...HIGHEST IN THE NORTH AND WEST. BOTH MODELS KEEP THIS FEATURE IN OUR VICINITY FOR MOST OF SUNDAY NITE...ALTHOUGH BETTER DPVA WILL BE LIMITED TO OUR FOOTHILLS AND THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS. MODELS ALSO ADVERTISE A 30H JETLET ROUNDING THE UPPER TROF THAT ENHANCES UPPER DIVERGENCE OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN. UPPER PATTERN SHOWS SIGNS OF CHANGE BEGINNING MONDAY WITH SLOW RETROGRADE OF THE UPPER TROF AND ALLOWING ATLANTIC RIDGING TO SLOWLY BUILD INTO THE CAROLINAS. WILL MAINTAIN CHANCE POPS FOR ALL AREAS...WITH INCREASED LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND SLIGHTLY WARMER TEMPERATURES. FOR THE EXTENDED...MOST OF THE LONGER RANGE MODELS IN GENERAL AGREEMENT KEEPING THE UPPER TROF TO OUR WEST. CANADIAN AND NOGAPS QUITE INSISTENT ON PARKING A PIECE OF ATLANTIC RIDGING SQUARELY OVER OUR FORECAST AREA. SURFACE BOUNDARY...MEANWHILE...MEANDERS SLOWLY TO THE SOUTH...KEEPING POTENTIAL FOR UNSETTLED WEATHER FOR A WHILE. KEPT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THROUGH SATURDAY FOR ALL OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA. WE KEPT POPS BELOW CHANCE CATEGORY IN NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...SINCE MOISTURE FLUX SHOULD BE CUT OFF FROM THOSE AREAS IF RIDGE ALOFT DOES INDEED BUILD IN. INDICATED SLIGHT WARMING OF TEMPERATURES THROUGH LATE WEEK...ALTHOUGH THERE IS BUST POTENTIAL GIVEN INCREASINGLY LOW LEVEL UPSLOPE FLOW INTO THE REGION BY LATE WEEK AND GFS HINTS THAT A SYSTEM OF TROPICAL ORIGIN MAY IMPACT SOUTHEAST STATES AS NEXT WEEKEND NEARS. FCSTID = 44 GSP 68 86 69 87 / 50 30 30 30 AND 68 87 69 88 / 50 30 30 30 CLT 69 86 69 87 / 50 30 30 30 HKY 65 85 66 86 / 50 40 40 40 AVL 63 82 64 83 / 50 40 40 40 BURRUS
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-091215- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 610 AM EDT SAT AUG 9 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 AN INCREASING THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE AS THE DAY WEARS ON. LOCALIZED EXCESSIVE RAIN IS POSSIBLE ...AND EVEN A FEW SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION. FOR FURTHER DETAILS...PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...SPSGSP...ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A DAILY CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
516 PM EDT SAT AUG 09 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
428 PM SENECA SC .75 INCH HAIL
08/09/03 OCONEE HAIL UP TO SIZE OF
PENNIES AT WAL-MART.
REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
427 PM SENECA SC WIND DAMAGE
08/09/03 OCONEE TREE DOWN ON VEHICLE ON
SHEEP FARM RD. ALSO 0.50
INCH HAIL. REPORTED BY
SHERIFF.
MOOREThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A fish pond overflowed and flooded a portion of highway 70. Some small streams also flooded in the 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: 5374359.