1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Jan 20, 4:20 AM EST, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 420 AM EST MON JAN 20 2003 WILL CONTINUE WIND ADVISORY FOR MAINLY MTN TOPS THIS MORNING. 50KT H85 WINDS WILL REMAIN UNTIL COLD FRONT PRESSES CLOSER...WINDS SHOULD DECREASE AROUND NOON TIME. NO ONE MODEL APPEARS TO BE IN VOGUE AS THEY ARE VERY SIMILAR IN TIMING AND FUTURE ROLE OF THE ARCTIC FRONT. ISENTROPIC LIFT WILL BEGIN TO DEVELOP CLOUDS THIS AFTERNOON OVER GA AND WILL START PRODUCING PRECIP A FEW HOURS BEFORE SUNRISE TONIGHT. CHALLENGE WILL BE WHAT TYPE OF PRECIP. LOOKING AT THE 2M TEMPS AND LLVL THICKNESS ON THE ETA CONDITIONS LOOK WARM...AND I AGREE...WITH GOOD WAA...THICK CLOUDS...DEGRADED SNOW PACK...AND SOUTH WINDS...WENT MAINLY RA WITH SOME FZRA IN THE NRN MTN VALLEYS. AS FRONT MOVE FURTHER SOUTH CRITICAL THICKNESS BECOME INTO VIEW AND WILL WORD SOME PL INTO THE NC PIED AND FOOTHILLS...PER CRITICAL THICKNESS NOMOGRAM. MAV ADVERTISING CAT POPS FOR TUES LOOKS TOO HIGH...HOWEVER FRONT DOES NOT HASTILY MOVE SOUTH...WILL SIDE WITH MET/FWC/LOCAL ETA MOS...MEANING CHC EAST OF MTNS AND LIKELY IN THE MTNS. MAJOR LOW ONCE DEPICTED FOR THU ON THE GFS APPEARS TO BE NO MORE...UNTIL SFC WAVE TIGHTENS OVER THE GULF STREAM THU AFTERNOON. LEAVING CWA IN THE PATH OF AN ARCTIC EXPRESS. BY SAT AM GFS SETTLES A CANADIAN HIGH OVER THE AREA AND STATING THAT LOW TEMPS WILL RIVAL THE TEMPS AFTER THIS PAST SNOW STORM...WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR AS THE TREND HAS BE A LITTLE WARMER. WILL USE BLEND OF FLP...FWC...MAV...2M TEMPS FOR SHORT TERM TEMPS. DP WERE FORECASTED WITH HELP FROM THE ETA AND FWC/MAV. FCSTID = 16 GSP 54 40 50 29 / 0 30 50 20 AND 57 42 53 32 / 0 30 50 20 CLT 56 35 44 26 / 0 30 50 10 HKY 50 33 41 23 / 0 30 50 10 AVL 48 34 43 23 / 0 30 60 10 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...WIND ADVISORY FOR THIS MORNING FOR ZONES NCZ033...NCZ048>053... NCZ058>059...NCZ062>065. SC...NONE. NED
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-201200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 500 AM EST MON JAN 20 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE... TODAYS WINDS WILL BE 10 TO 20 MPH IN THE MOUNTAIN VALLEYS...25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH IN THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS...WINDS WILL DECREASE AFTER NOON TIME. WILL CONTINUE WIND ADVISORY THROUGH NOON...PLEASE SEE NPWGSP FOR FURTHER DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... ARCTIC FRONT WILL PASS OVER THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHERN GEORGIA TONIGHT AND TUESDAY...THE PRECIPITATION WITH THE FRONT WILL REMAIN SOUTH OF THE COLD AIR ALLOWING MOST OF THE PRECIPITATION TO FALL AS LIGHT RAIN. NORTHERN MOUNTAIN VALLEYS MAY SEE FREEZING RAIN FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH NOON TUESDAY. ALSO SOME SPOTS IN THE NORTHERN FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA COULD RECEIVE SOME LIGHT FREEZING RAIN TONIGHT...ANY ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE LIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. NED
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High winds blew the tin roof off of a store in Burnsville. A few trees and power lines were blown down in the same 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, January 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: 5341001.