Flood in North Carolina, July 13, 2003

Name: Flood in North Carolina, July 13, 2003
Start: 2003-07-13T01:00
End: 2003-07-13T03:00
Location: North Carolina

July 13, 2003 · NWS GSP · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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 Jul 12, 9:37 PM EST, 3 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 9:37 PM EST, 3 hours 23 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1037 PM EDT SAT JUL 12 2003

CONVECTION CONTINUES TO FIRE AHEAD OF A MAJOR SHORTWAVE AND TROF
AXIS DIGGING INTO THE SOUTHEAST. A MAJOR FLASH FLOOD IS IN PROGRESS
IN THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS...FLOOD WATCH FOR THE FOOTHILLS HAS
ALREADY BEEN ISSUED FOR THE FOOTHILLS...AND SOME OF THE PIEDMONT.
RAISED POPS TO 40 FOR THE UPSTATE AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. KEPT CHANCE
POPS IN FOR THE FAR WESTERN MOUNTAINS.

FCSTID =   44
GSP   68  86  67  87 /  40  40  40  30
AND   68  86  68  87 /  40  40  40  30
CLT   68  87  67  87 /  40  40  40  30
HKY   66  84  66  84 /  50  40  40  30
AVL   62  81  62  81 /  30  40  40  30

.GSP...
GA...NONE.
NC...FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT FOR ZONES NCZ054>056...NCZ067>070.
SC...NONE.

BURRUS

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 12, 4:20 AM EST, 20 hours 40 minutes before

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 12, 9:48 PM EST, 3 hours 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1048 PM EDT SAT JUL 12 2003

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1005 PM    MT HOLLY                  NC   WIND DAMAGE
07/12/03   GASTON                         SEVERAL 4-5 DIAMETER
                                          TREES DOWN AND NUMEROUS
                                          LARGE LIMBS DOWN.
                                          REPORTED BY SPOTTER.

LANE

Local storm report, Jul 12, 9:51 PM EST, 3 hours 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1051 PM EDT SAT JUL 12 2003

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1040 PM    5 ESE LINCOLNTON          NC   WIND DAMAGE
07/12/03   LINCOLN                        HAM REPORTED HIGH WINDS
                                          AND LIMBS 2 INCHES IN
                                          DIAMETER BLOWN OFF TREES.

1035 PM    9 N RUTHERFORDTON         NC   WIND DAMAGE
07/12/03   RUTHERFORD                     911 CENTER RELAYED REPORT
                                          OF TREES DOWN IN UNION
                                          MILLS AREA.

TJB

Local storm report, Jul 12, 10:05 PM EST, 2 hours 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1105 PM EDT SAT JUL 12 2003

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1100 PM    11 NW GASTONIA            NC   .75 INCH HAIL
07/12/03   GASTON                         911 CENTER REPORTED DIME
                                          SIZE HAIL AND SOME LARGE
                                          LIMBS DOWN NW OF
                                          GASTONIA.

1100 PM    11 NW GASTONIA            NC   WIND DAMAGE
07/12/03   GASTON                         911 CENTER REPORTED LARGE
                                          LIMBS DOWN NW OF
                                          GASTONIA.

TJB

Local storm report, Jul 12, 10:57 PM EST, 2 hours 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1157 PM EDT SAT JUL 12 2003

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1135 PM    7 W HUNTERSVILLE          NC   WIND DAMAGE
07/12/03   MECKLENBURG                    911 TREE ON HOUSE N OF
                                          CHARLOTTE AND WEST OF
                                          HUNTERSVILLE.

TJB

Local storm report, Jul 12, 11:05 PM EST, 1 hour 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1205 AM EDT SUN JUL 13 2003

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1145 PM    16 NE RUTHERFORDTON       NC   FLASH FLOOD
07/12/03   RUTHERFORD                     911 CENTER REPORTED HWY
                                          226 FLOODED AND
                                          IMPASSABLE NEAR GIRL
                                          SCOUT CAMP ROAD.

TJB

Local storm report, Jul 12, 11:26 PM EST, 1 hour 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1226 AM EDT SUN JUL 13 2003

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1205 AM    N. FORK ROAD              NC   FLASH FLOOD
07/13/03   RUTHERFORD                     COUNTY 911 OFFICIALS
                                          REPORTED MUDSLIDE
                                          BLOCKING N. FORK ROAD.

KRENTZ

Event by event

1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Rutherford

When: July 13, 1:00 AM EST to 3:00 AM EST
Where: Rutherford forecast zone
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER

Although the heavy rainfall ended across the county shortly after midnight, flooding continued through the pre-dawn hours.

What these are

Flood: Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in North Carolina in 2003 Every state in 2003 This day in weather history Warnings in North Carolina, July 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5329831.