1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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 Jul 1, 5:17 PM EST, 1 hour 58 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 617 PM EDT TUE JUL 1 2003 ANOTHER UPDATE TO INCLUDE TORNADO WATCH 614 TO ELBERT...ABBEVILLE AND GREENWOOD COUNTIES. NO ADDITIONAL CHANGES. PREVIOUS DISCUSSIONS BELOW... UPDATING FORECAST TO INCREASE WIND SPEEDS ACROSS THE CWFA. WINDY OVER THE MOUNTAINS...BREEZY OR BECOMING BREEZY ELSEWHERE. OTHERWISE NO CHANGE TO PREVIOUS FORECAST. PREVIOUS DISCUSSION BELOW... REMNANTS OF T.S. BILL OVER ALABAMA MOVING NE WITH LARGE PRECIP SHIELD AHEAD OF IT. EXPECT FAIRLY STRONG UPSLOPE TO DEVELOP THIS EVE AND CONTINUE OVERNIGHT. COMBINED WITH STRONG MID LEVEL UVV AND DEEP MOISTURE...EXCESSIVE RAINFALL SEEMS LIKELY. FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED WITH DETAILS CONCERNING RAINFALL AMOUNTS...ETC. DUE TO FAIRLY STRONG SPEED AND DIRECTIONAL SHEAR...THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE TSTMS AS WELL. BEST LIFT MOVES E OF AREA WED MRNG AND AREA FALLS UNDER NW FLOW BEHIND SYSTEM. A WAVE MOVES N OVER AREA FRI SO HAVE BUMPED POPS UP TO 30% AFTN-EVE HOURS. ENOUGH MOISTURE REMAINS FOR SLIGHT CHANCE SAT THRU MON. TEMPS WILL RECOVER OVER WEEKEND AS WELL WITH SOME LOW 90S ACROSS THE PIEDMONT. FCSTID = 77 GSP 69 79 69 84 / 100 80 50 30 AND 70 80 70 84 / 100 80 50 30 CLT 69 79 69 84 / 100 80 50 30 HKY 67 77 68 83 / 100 90 50 30 AVL 65 76 65 81 / 100 80 50 30 .GSP... GA...FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOR ZONES GAZ010...GAZ017>018...GAZ026...GAZ028>029. NC...FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOR ZONES NCZ033>037...NCZ048>059...NCZ062>072...NCZ082. SC...FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOR ZONES SCZ001>014...SCZ019. RB/RWH
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-011145- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 600 AM EDT TUE JUL 1 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY THE REMNANTS OF TROPICAL STORM BILL WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS THE DEEP SOUTH TODAY AND THEN MOVE JUST WEST OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS BY TONIGHT. HEAVY TROPICAL RAINFALL WILL IMPACT THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA STARTING TODAY. A FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...AND DETAILS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE PRODUCT FFAGSP. INSTABILITY IN THE TROPICAL AIRMASS WILL COMBINE WITH INCREASING WINDS TO CREATE THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES TO DEVELOP LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL...SEE THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...SPSGSP. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... FLOODING WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...AS MAIN STEM RIVERS RESPOND TO ANY HEAVY RAIN THAT HAS FALLEN ACROSS THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY LIKELY BY LATE TODAY. HG
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-020300- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 311 PM EDT TUE JUL 1 2003 ...A CHANCE OF TORNADOES AND DAMAGING WINDS TONIGHT... THE REMNANTS OF TROPICAL DEPRESSION BILL WILL APPROACH THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS TONIGHT...AND COULD BRING DANGEROUS WEATHER CONDITIONS TO THE AREA. FLOOD WATCH INFORMATION IS CONTAINED IN A SEPARATE BULLETIN. WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND SOME THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR TONIGHT. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE SOMEWHAT UNSTABLE...AND WITH INCREASING WIND IN THE LOWER ATMOSPHERE...IT IS POSSIBLE THAT ISOLATED TORNADOES AND DAMAGING WIND STORMS COULD DEVELOP. THE THREAT OF TORNADOES AND SEVERE STORMS SHOULD DIMINISH AFTER TONIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS POTENTIAL SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. 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. 07
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Persistent moderate to heavy rainfall resulted in rock and mud slides across much of the county.
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, July 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: 5329915.