1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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 12, 1:21 PM EST, 7 hours 44 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 221 PM EDT SAT JUL 12 2003 UPPER LEVEL TROUGH TO PERSIST. SURFACE FRONT E OF AREA TO WASH OUT...WHILE ANOTHER WEAK FRONT MOVES INTO AREA TONIGHT...STALLING JUST TO S ON SUN. AREA CAPPED UNTIL THIS EVENING...WHEN CAPES OF 200-300 PROGGED BY MODEL SOUNDINGS AS MID LEVELS COOL. SUNDAY AFTERNOON TO HAVE A BIT MORE INSTABILITY...AND FRONTAL MOISTURE. MON/TUE NEARLY A REPEAT OF SUN. GULF NOT OPEN...SO ACTIVITY JUST EXPECTED TO BE SCATTERED. NOT MUCH COOLING BEHIND THESE BOUNDARIES ...WITH MOISTURE/CLOUDS REMAINING...AND COOLEST AIR WELL TO N. WEAK S FLOW TO DOMINATE WED/THU AS SLOW MOVING FRONT ADVANCES FROM NW. FRONT TO STALL OVER AERA FRI...WITH LIMITED MOISTURE...THEN TO WASH OUT SAT. CHANCE POPS CONTINUE...PRIMARILY AFTERNOON/EVENING... WITH TEMPERATURES AROUND OR JUST BELOW NORMAL. FCSTID = 7 GSP 67 86 67 87 / 30 40 40 30 AND 68 86 68 87 / 30 40 40 30 CLT 67 87 67 87 / 30 40 40 30 HKY 65 84 66 84 / 30 40 40 30 AVL 60 81 62 81 / 30 40 40 30 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. O7
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-121130- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 520 AM EDT SAT JUL 12 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AND ORGANIZE ACROSS THE TENNESSEE VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON. THE STORMS MAY MOVE INTO THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR EARLY THIS EVENING...AND THEN MOVE ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA...AS WELL AS NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA LATER IN THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS AND PERHAPS LARGE HAIL...ESPECIALLY DURING THE EARLY TO MID EVENING IN AREAS WEST OF I-26 IN GEORGIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA...AND WEST OF THE BLUE RIDGE IN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SCATTERD...MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE MOST DAYS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS EVENING. LANE
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
831 PM EDT SAT JUL 12 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
824 PM 7 NW SHELBY NC WIND DAMAGE
07/12/03 CLEVELAND SPOTTER REPORTED TREES
BLOWING DOWN AND DEBRIS
IN THE AIR ON HIGHWAY 226
BETWEEN SHELBY AND
POLKVILLE.
TJBNCZ068>072-082-SCZ008-009-013-014-130200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 842 PM EDT SAT JUL 12 2003 ...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO AFFECT THE NORTH CAROLINA PIEDMONT AND THE NORTHERN PART OF THE UPSTATE THROUGH LATE EVENING... AT 838 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS AND WESTERN PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA. THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST AT AROUND 30 MPH...AND AFFECT AREAS FROM SHELBY TO GASTONIA AND LINCOLNTON THROUGH 930 PM. IF THESE STORMS HOLD TOGETHER...THEY WILL MOVE INTO THE CHARLOTTE AND ROCK HILL AREAS BETWEEN 930 PM AND 1030 PM EDT. THE STRONGEST OF THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 INCHES AND HOUR AND NEARLY CONTINUOUS LIGHTNING WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY THE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION OR CABLE TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. MCAVOY
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
844 PM EDT SAT JUL 12 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
823 PM 12 N SHELBY NC .75 INCH HAIL
07/12/03 CLEVELAND DIME SIZE HAIL NEAR
POLKSVILLE.
TJBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
847 PM EDT SAT JUL 12 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
842 PM SUNSHINE NC WIND DAMAGE
07/12/03 RUTHERFORD TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
COUNTY COMMS CENTER.
MCAVOYPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
946 PM EDT SAT JUL 12 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
942 PM DALLAS NC .75 INCH HAIL
07/12/03 GASTON PUBLIC REPORT.
LAMBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
950 PM EDT SAT JUL 12 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
800 PM POLKVILLE NC .75 INCH HAIL
07/12/03 CLEVELAND SPOTTER REPORTED DIME
SIZE HAIL...TREE LIMBS
DOWN...AND POSSIBLE WALL
CLOUD.
LAMBThe Greer radar (KGSP), 119 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:02 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Numerous power lines and trees, some as large as 4-5 feet in diameter, were blown down. Some large trees fell on vehicles and houses.
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5329531, 5329532.