Name: Flood in North Carolina, July 31, 2003
Start: 2003-07-31T00:30
End: 2003-07-31T04:00
Location: North Carolina

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 30, 9:19 PM EST, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 9:19 PM EST, 3 hours 11 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1019 PM EDT WED JUL 30 2003

EXTREMELY BUSY WITH FFW/S THIS EVENING...HAVE ISSUED UPDATED
FFA TO EXTEND THRU TONIGHT & ADDED MCDOWELL COUNTY AS WELL.
KGSP VWP INDICATES VERY FAVORABLE DEEP SSE FLOW FOR CONTINUED
REDEVELOPMENT WITH 00Z AREA SNDGS INDICATING PWATS AROUND 130
PERCENT OF NORMAL. WILL ALSO NEED TO MONITOR OUTFLOW DRIVEN
TSTMS EXTENDING EAST TOWARD CLT AS WELL...BUT THIS AREA IS
PROPAGATING INTO A MORE STABLE AIRMASS AS PER LATEST MSAS...
SO HOPEFULLY AREAL EXTENT OF HEAVY RAIN THREAT EAST OF THE
WATCH AREA WILL BE MORE LIMITED. OTHERWISE...AS FAR AS POP
GRIDS GO TONIGHT...WILL OBVIOUSLY BE INCREASING IN MANY AREAS
BASED ON CURRENT COVERAGE AND CONTINUED UPSLOPE AND ALSO
FOR POTENTIAL INCREASE IN LLVL UPGLIDE FLOW EXPECTED
OVERNIGHT STARTING THE FAR WEST.

FCSTID = 55
GSP   70  86  71  86 / 100  60  60  50
AND   71  88  72  87 /  70  60  60  40
CLT   70  86  71  87 / 100  60  60  50
HKY   67  83  69  84 /  40  60  60  50
AVL   66  82  67  82 /  50  60  60  40

.GSP...
GA...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TONIGHT FOR ZONES GAZ010...GAZ017>018.
NC...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TONIGHT FOR ZONES NCZ054-NCZ063>067.
SC...FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TONIGHT FOR ZONES SCZ001>007.

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 30, 3:30 AM EST, 21 hours before

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014-
019-301100-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
430 AM EDT WED JUL 30 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 THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE
EXTENDED PERIOD.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

RB

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 30, 10:16 PM EST, 2 hours 14 minutes before

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Event by event

1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Polk

When: July 31, 12:30 AM EST to 4:00 AM EST
Where: Polk forecast zone
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT

Although heavy rainfall moved out of the county during the early morning hours, flooding continued for several 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

More

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: 5330112.