1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 6, 2:14 PM EST, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 314 PM EDT SUN JUL 6 2003 KGSP 88-D SHOWS AFTERNOON CONVECTION IN FULL SWING. WHILE MUCH OF THIS ACTIVITY IS DRIVEN BY DAYTIME HEATING...THERE IS UPPER SUPPORT AS A WEAK TROF CONTINUES SINKING SOUTH INTO THE REGION ALOFT. THIS FEATURE IS PROGD TO CROSS OUR AREA EARLY MONDAY MORNING. TIME HEIGHTS SHOW MOISTURE CONTENT IN THE ATMOSPHERE INCREASING...ESPECIALLY LATE TONIGHT...WHICH WOULD ALSO SUPPORT ACTIVITY CONTINUING WELL BEYOND MIDNIGHT. WILL MENTION POPS THROUGH LATE TONIGHT IN THE ZONES...WITH BEST COVERAGE NORTH AND WEST OVERNIGHT. IN THE PREDAWN...MOISTURE LADEN BOUNDARY LAYER MAY PRODUCE SOME DENSE FOG IN THE MOUNTAINS. AFOREMENTIONED TROF...AND AN UPPER VORT...WILL AFFECT THE FORECAST AREA MONDAY. LITTLE DRYING IN THE LOWER ATMOSPHERE WITH PRECIPITABLE WATERS OVER 1.8 INCHES ON FORECAST SOUNDINGS. A CASE COULD CERTAINLY BE MADE FOR LIKELY POPS IN THE HIGHER TERRAIN GIVEN SOMEWHAT BETTER UPPER FORCING THERE TOMORROW AFTERNOON...BUT WENT WITH HIGH CHANCE POPS THERE AFTER COLLABORATION WITH SURROUNDING OFFICES...WITH 40 POPS EVERYWHERE ELSE. THERE WILL BE...AGAIN...A THREAT OF HEAVY RAIN...BUT UPPER FLOW WILL BE A LITTLE FASTER THAN IN PREVIOUS DAYS WITH THE TROF DIGGING SOUTHEAST. KEPT POPS IN THROUGH EARLY EVENING...THEN LOSS OF HEATING AND SUBSIDENCE IN THE WAKE OF THE TROF SHOULD ALLOW CONVECTION TO WEAKEN. ONCE TROF HAS PASSED EAST OF THE AREA...RIDGING STRENGTHENS ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST STATES. CWFA IS IN BETWEEN SYSTEMS...WITH DRIER AIR WORKING IN. 1000/85H THICKNESSES ALSO RISE TO 1432M FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT...SUGGESTING TUESDAY COULD BE THE WARMEST DAY YET. LOW LEVELS REMAIN RATHER MOIST...HOWEVER...SO CONVECTION MAY STILL FIRE IN THE MOUNTAINS...WHILE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT WILL ALSO BE IN A SLIGHT DOWNSLOPE REGIME. KEPT POPS LIMITED TO LATE AFTERNOON IN THE MOUNTAINS...AND THE NORTH CAROLINA FOOTHILLS. ON WEDNESDAY...BACKDOOR FRONT APPROACHES THE CWFA. KEPT A MENTION OF CHANCE POPS IN CWFA WIDE...WITH GREATEST CHANCES NORTH AND WEST...WHERE GFS DISPLAYS GREATEST LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND CLOSER TO THE EFFECTS OF AN APPROACHING UPPER TROF THAT WILL FORCE THE FRONT SOUTH. THU THROUGH SUN...THE MEDIUM RANGE MODELS HAVE DELAYED FROPA UNTIL THU NGHT. AS A RESULT HAVE INTRODUCED POPS INTO THE THU PERIOD. IN FACT...APPEARS THAT THERE MAY BE SOME GOOD SHEAR AS THE TROUGH PASSES. THE REST OF THE PERIOD...FRI TO SAT...LOOKS DRY. W/HGHTS BUILDING OVER THE NRN PLAINS AND E COAST TROF...WEAK HIGH PRESSURE AND NWLY FLOW SHOULD SUPPRESS CONVECTION. SOME CHANCE THAT BY SUNDAY MCS TRACK COULD BEGIN TO AFFECT THE WRN ZONES...ASSUMING THAT ANYTHING CAN GET GOING UNDER THE STRONG RIDGE. FCSTID = 44 GSP 71 87 71 91 / 40 40 40 20 AND 71 88 71 92 / 40 40 40 20 CLT 72 88 72 91 / 40 40 40 20 HKY 70 87 70 89 / 50 40 40 20 AVL 66 83 66 86 / 50 50 50 30 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. BURRUS/MCAVOY
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-061215- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 620 AM EDT SUN JUL 6 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE... SPOTTY SHOWERS ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING WILL GIVE WAY TO AN INCREASING COVERAGE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... DAILY CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED MONDAY...WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED...BUT AS ALWAYS...SPOTTERS ARE URGED TO REPORT ANY REPORTS OF HEAVY RAIN...FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. 55
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 71 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:17 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flooding developed along Little Pine Creek and Spring Creek in the western part of the county. Spring Creek flooded part of highway 63.
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: 5334517.