1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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 Raleigh, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 2, 9:00 AM EST, 3 hours 49 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1000 AM EDT WED JUL 2 2003 INTERMEDIATE RAOB FROM GSO AT 18Z SCHEDULED. WITH THE DRY SLOT ALOFT BECOMING ESTABLISHED AND REDUCING WATER LOADING...WIDESPREAD FLOODING POTENTIAL MAY HAVE DIMINISHED OVER WESTERN AND CENTRAL AREAS. BUT WITH THE CIRCULATION OF BILL STILL TO OUR WEST MOVING VERY SLOWLY...BANDED DEEP CONVECTION WITH TRAIN EFFECT THUNDERSTORMS IS STILL POSSIBLE. FOR THIS REASON...THE FLOOD WATCH WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR THE ENTIRE AREA UNTIL 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON. SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN OVER MOST OF THE AREA AS WELL. EARLY MORNING GSO RAOB SHOWED HIGH HELICITY...OVER 400 M*2/S*2...BUT UPSTREAM PROFILER NEAR CLT SHOWED DIMINISHING HELICITY WITH PASSAGE OF THE EASTERLY JET AS INDICATED BY THE ETA MODELS. .RAH...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH 400 PM EDT TODAY. RFG
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-021045- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 455 AM EDT WED JUL 2 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLY ISOLATED TORNADOES FOR THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN SECTIONS OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. ADDITIONALLY...AS THE REMNANTS OF TROPICAL DEPRESSION BILL TRACK NORTHEAST ACROSS WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA...BANDS OF HEAVY RAINS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA WHICH COULD RESULT IN FLOODING. A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER THERE IS A CHANCE FOR SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER NETWORK ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS MORNING AND THROUGH THE DAY FOR HEAVY RAINFALL REPORTS AND POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER. RA
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-030122- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 923 AM EDT WED JUL 2 2003 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA THROUGH TODAY. HAZARDOUS WEATHER... ISOLATED TORNADOES...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE WITHIN BANDS OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY OVER CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. SKYWARN SPOTTERS... NETWORK ACTIVATION OF SKYWARN SPOTTERS MAY BE REQUIRED LATER TODAY. SYNOPSIS... THE REMNANTS OF TROPICAL STORM BILL WILL TRACK ACROSS NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA TODAY. BANDS OF HEAVY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO TRACK NORTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA. HEAT AND HIGH HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL PROVIDE AMPLY FUEL FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN THE CIRCULATION OF LOW PRESSURE CAUSE BY REMNANTS OF BILL. RFG
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 105 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:48 UTC.
1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A tornado was sighted moving northeast between Aberdeen and Vass. Numerous trees were blown down along the path, and some homes and vehicles were damaged.
Roads were flooded across the county. A truck was stranded in a flooded road.
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 historyThe tornado archive for North Carolina, 2003Warnings 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: 5376096, 5376097, 5376098.