1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 5, 1:16 PM EST, 44 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 216 PM EDT SAT JUL 5 2003 AN INTERESTING AIRMASS OVER THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON. OVER THE NRN ZONES...MID LEVELS (PER WATER VAPOR LOOP AND MORNING RAOBS) ARE STILL VERY DRY AND THETA-E DELTAS ARE OVER 20 DEG. OVER THE SRN ZONES...TROPICAL AIRMASS HAS WORKED IN WITH PW/S AROUND 1.90. ATTM THE MTNS ARE LIGHTING UP W/CONVECTION AS THERE HAS BEEN MORE HEATING IN THE HIGHER TERRAIN. AS THE EVENING PROGRESSES...A MID LEVEL SHORT WAVE WL WORK ACROSS THE AREA FROM THE S. THE COMBINATION OF THE WAVE AND TSRA FIRING ALONG THE AIRMASS DISCONTINUITY...SHOULD RESULT IN GOOD COVERAGE ACROSS THE CWA DURING THE LATE AFTN AND EVENING. MAY BE A CASE WHERE THE ZONES HAVE LIKELY...BUT THE CCF WL HAVE LOWER POPS PER THE GREATER PRE 00 UTC COVERAGE. WEAK TROF REMAINS OVER THE REGION SUNDAY AND MONDAY. LAYER RH/S ARE HIGHER SUNDAY...WITH A WEAK SHORT WAVE MOVING ACROSS THE CWA FROM THE WEST. GFS APPEARS TO HAVE A CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK PROBLEM...THOUGH BOTH ETA AND GFS HAVE THE FEATURE. LOOKS LIKE BEST COVERAGE IN THE MTNS TMRW...AND HAVE GONE A LIKELY POP WHICH LINES UP WELL W/MRX. LEE TROF WL BE A LITTLE MORE PRONOUNCED SUN AND MONDAY. W/TROPICAL AIR...MAY STILL BE HARD PRESSED TO GET OUR FIRST 90 DEG DAY IN THE UPSTATE AND SRN PIEDMONT. W/WLY FLOW AND WEAKER FORCING ON TUE...WE MAY DRY OUT ENUF TO SUPPRESS CONVECTION...OR AT LEAST KEEP COVERAGE IN THE ISOLATED CATEGORY. WL CONTINUE THE TREND OF A SILENT 20 POP. WED THROUGH SAT...PATTERN CHANGE INTO THE EXTENDED AS ALL MEDIUM RANGE GUIDANCE AGREES IN BUILDING A STRONG RIDGE OVER THE WRN STATES AND PLAINS. HGHT FALL OVER THE ERN STATES...THOUGH THERE IS SOME DISAGREEMENT AMONG THE MODELS AS THE THE TIMING OF THE ARRIVAL OF DRIER AIR...AND I LIKED HPC/S MANUAL PROG...WITH FROPA SOMETIME THU MORNING. WL CARRY HIGH CHANCE POPS WED...THEN DRY OUT THE NC ZONES THU WHILE HOLDING ON THE CHANCE POPS SRN ZONES. WL GO DRY FRI AND SAT. A LITTLE CONCERN THAT THE LATEST GFS DOESN/T HAVE QUITE A MUCH AMPLITUDE TO THE MIDDLE CONUS RIDGE. THIS MIGHT RESULT IN A LITTLE LESS AMPLITUDE DOWNSTREAM. FCSTID = 14 GSP 71 86 71 87 / 40 40 40 40 AND 71 86 71 88 / 50 40 40 40 CLT 71 87 71 88 / 30 40 40 40 HKY 70 86 70 87 / 30 40 40 40 AVL 66 82 66 83 / 50 60 60 50 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. MCAVOY
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-051145- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 542 AM EDT SAT JUL 5 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON OVER NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND THE WESTERN CAROLINAS. HEAVY RAINFALL ASSOCIATED WITH THE STORMS COULD LEAD TO FLOODING...PLEASE SEE LASTEST SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT (SPSGSP) FOR DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATE THIS AFTERNOON. NED
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
204 PM EDT SAT JUL 05 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
100 PM CASHIERS NC WIND DAMAGE
07/05/03 JACKSON FEW TREES DOWN REPORTED
BY COUNTY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
SBKPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
236 PM EDT SAT JUL 05 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
200 PM 13 NW LENOIR NC WIND DAMAGE
07/05/03 CALDWELL COUNTY COMMS SUPERVISOR
REPORTS SEVERAL TREES
DOWN IN THE NORTHWEST
PART OF THE COUNTY.
DEOThe Greer radar (KGSP), 134 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:00 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash flooding was reported along Wilsons Creek near Mortimer.
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: 5335002.