1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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, 9:26 PM EST, 3 hours 34 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1026 PM EDT TUE JUL 1 2003 HEAVY RAIN STILL MOVING THRU THE AREA. THIS WILL CONTINUE THRU THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS AS BEST LIFT ASSOCIATED WITH REMNANTS OF BILL MOVING OVER RIGHT NOW. FLOOD THREAT CONTINUES. UPDATING FCST TO REMOVE WATCH. HAVE CHANGED THUNDER WORDING TO CHANCE. TEMPS ALREADY BELOW FCST LOWS IN MOST PLACES. WILL LOWER ACROSS THE NC MTNS AND WORD AS STEADY ELSEWHERE. A FEW TOUCH UP TO WINDS AS WELL. NO CHANGES TO LATER PERIODS. .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. 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
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1052 PM EDT TUE JUL 01 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1001 PM FRANKLIN NC MUDSLIDE
07/01/03 MACON MACON EOC REPORTED
NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ALL
OVER COUNTY...ALONG WITH
SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES.
MOST LIKELY DUE TO
MUDSLIDES.
JRL1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A prolonged period of moderate to heavy rainfall resulted in several roads being washed out, particularly in the Columbus and White Oak Mountain areas.
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: 5330183.