1 lightning, 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 29, 5:08 PM EST, 22 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 608 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 2003 AFTER COORDINATION WITH SPC...WILL UPDATE TO CLEAR THE NORTH CAROLINA FOOTHILLS AND THE WESTERN UPSTATE...INCLUDING GREENVILLE AND SPARTANBURG FROM THE CURRENT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. LAPS ANALYSIS SHOWS LITTLE RESIDUAL INSTABILITY IN WORKED OVER AIRMASS AND VAD WIND PROFILE SHOWS LITTLE SHEAR REMAINING WITH 15 KT WESTERLY FLOW UP THE COLUMN. FCSTID = 33 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. HG
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-291100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 458 AM EDT TUE JUL 29 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE EXTENDED PERIOD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED ATT HIS TIME. RB
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
441 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
434 PM VALDESE NC .75 INCH HAIL
07/29/03 BURKE HAM REPORTED DIME SIZED
HAIL.
441 PM 3 E BETHLEHEM NC WIND DAMAGE
07/29/03 ALEXANDER SPOTTER REPORTED 4-5
LIMBS BLOWING OFF TREES
AND PEA SIZE HAIL.
LAMBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
522 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
500 PM SPARTANBURG SC WIND DAMAGE
07/29/03 SPARTANBURG COUNTY 911 REPORTED TREES
AND POWERLINES DOWN AT
INTSCN OF CANNONS
CAMPGROUND RD AND
CONVERSE RD.
520 PM 0.5 S FALLSTON NC WIND DAMAGE
07/29/03 CLEVELAND HAM REPORTED 2 ROOFS
BLOWN OFF MOBILE HOMES
NEAR JIM CLINE RD AND HWY
18.
LAMBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
546 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
522 PM WOODLEAF NC .75 INCH HAIL
07/29/03 ROWAN WOODLEAF F.D. REPORTED
DIME SIZE HAIL AND GUSTY
WIND.
LAMBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
553 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
520 PM FALLSTON NC WIND DAMAGE
07/29/03 CLEVELAND UPDATE TO PREVOUS LSR.
NUMEROUS TREES UPROOTED
OR SNAPPED OFF HALFWAYUP.
OUTBUILDINGS BLOWN INTO
THE HIGHWAY. ONE MOBILE
HOME LOST ROOF WHILE MAN
WAS INSIDE. NO INJURIES.
REPORTED BY COUNTY 911
CENTER.
LAMBNCZ034-054-055-066-067-SCZ002-003-005>007-010>012-019-292245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 615 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 2003 THE NORTH CAROLINA FOOTHILLS AND THE WESTERN UPSTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA HAVE BEEN CLEARED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH # 812. THIS CLEARANCE AFFECTS THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH CAROLINA... CALDWELL...BURKE...MCDOWELL...RUTHERFORD...AND POLK. AND THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTH CAROLINA... PICKENS...GREENVILLE...SPARTANBURG...LAURENS...ANDERSON...ABBEVILLE. ...AND GREENWOOD. THE STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAS MOVED EAST OF THE AREA. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY STILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION THIS EVENING...BUT THEY ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LEVELS. HG
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
629 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
610 PM BELMONT NC WIND DAMAGE
07/29/03 GASTON TREES DOWN...INCLUDING
ONE THAT DAMAGED A POOL
AT A PRIVATE RESIDENCE.
MCAVOYThe Greer radar (KGSP), 133 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:27 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A person was injured when he was struck by lightning.
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: 5330384.