2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 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 Jun 7, 1:30 PM EST, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 230 PM EDT SAT JUN 7 2003 THETA-E RIDGE WILL SHIFT EASTWARD DURING THE EVENING HOURS. IN THE MEANTIME...MINOR SHORTWAVES EMBEDDED IN SATURATED SW FLOW WILL BE UNPREDICTABLE AND CAN LEAD TO ENHANCEMENT OF SHOWERS IN HIGH PW ENVIRONMENT. ANY ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN COULD CAUSE PROBLEMS OVER THE WATCH AREA. THUS DO NOT SEE ANY ADVANTAGES IN CANCELING WATCH GIVEN SATURATED SOIL ALREADY IN PLACE. WILL JUST ALLOW WATCH TO EXPIRE AT 8 PM WITH THETA-E AXIS EAST OF THE AREA BY EXPIRATION TIME. AFTER 00Z WILL CUT POPS BACK TO CHANCE...AND EMPHASIZE MAINLY BEFORE MIDNIGHT IN THE WEST. WILL KEEP CHANCE POPS THROUGH 12Z SUNDAY IN THE SOUTHEAST. FOR SUNDAY MODELS INDICATE WEAK SURFACE TROUGH OVER CWA. THE GFS IS MORE EMPHATIC WITH THIS FEATURE DEVELOPING A CLOSED LOW AND THUS GENERATING MORE LIFT. THE ETA/NGM MUCH WEAKER BUT POSITION OF FEATURE IS SIMILAR. WITH BOUNDARY OVER AREA...MODERATELY UNSTABLE LIS (-3 TO -5) AND CAPES (1500 TO 200)...DEWPOINTS IN THE 70S...SCATTERED CONVECTION IS POSSIBLE. KEY WILL BE HOW SOON WESTERLY...DRIER FLOW DEVELOPS. HAVE COORDINATED WITH GSP/RNK AND WILL INCLUDE 30% POPS FOR SUNDAY. WILL CLEAR OUT LATE SUNDAY NIGHT/MONDAY MORNING AS MEAN FLOW BECOMES WESTERLY. DRY THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF SHORT-TERM. 1000-850 THICKNESS SCHEME GIVES HIGH TEMPS NEAR 90 ON MONDAY WITH ZONAL FLOW NOTED AT ALL LEVELS THEN BACK TO NEAR NORMAL TEMPS WITH RETURN OF CLOUDS AND SOUTHERLY FLOW ON TUESDAY. WEDNESDAY ON... CONSISTENT MODEL RUNS LEND TO A CONTINUED FORECAST FOR MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION TOWARD THE END OF THE WEEK. WITH A SURFACE LOW TO THE NORTHWEST OF THE STATE AND A WEAK COLD FRONT WELL WEST OF THE FORECAST AREA - WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY NORTH OF THE AREA AS WELL - A CHANCE OF CONVECTION SHOULD EXIST EACH AFTERNOON/EVENING. A WARM MOIST SOUTHWEST FLOW FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO WILL KEEP TEMPERATURES UP WITH CLOUDS AROUND EACH DAY. HAVE MINIMIZED THE CHANCES OF CONVECTION IN THE OVERNIGHT TIME PERIODS EACH NIGHT. .RAH...FLOOD WATCH FOR EIGHT WESTERN COUNTIES THROUGH 8 PM EDT
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-081005- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 638 AM EDT SAT JUN 7 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY ...A FLOOD WATCH FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... PARTS OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA RECEIVED ONE TO ONE AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN OVERNIGHT. THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN IN THIS AREA BEFORE SUNSET TODAY. LITTLE TO NO THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS FORECAST...HOWEVER MODERATE TO BRIEFLY HEAVY RAINS ARE LIKELY AT LEAST THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS. THE THREAT FOR HEAVY RAINS WILL LESSEN AND SHIFT EASTWARD DURING THE DAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER FORECAST AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED. HOWEVER REPORTS OF FLOODING OR ACCURATE RAINFALL REPORTS SHOULD BE RELAYED TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
NCZ010-011-026-027-041-042-077-072100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 304 PM EDT SAT JUN 7 2003 A AREA OF HEAVY RAIN... UPWARDS OF HALF AN INCH PER HOUR WILL MOVE THROUGH THE TRIANGLE AND ON TO THE NORTHEAST ACROSS AREAS THAT HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED HALF AN INCH OF RAIN TODAY. THESE HEAVIER RAINS WILL AFFECT RALEIGH... LILLINGTON AND LOUISBURG PRIOR TO 3:15 PM. THESE RAINS WILL MOVE TO AFFECT ROANOKE RAPIDS... SPRING HOPE... HENDERSON... AND WARRENTON PRIOR TO 4 PM. WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO GUST AROUND 20 MPH FROM THE SOUTHWEST THROUGH 5 PM. IF YOU SEE FLOODING OCCURRING LET YOUR LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS KNOW THIS VALUABLE INFORMATION. IF DRIVING AND SEE A FLOODED ROADWAY... STOP... BACKUP... GO A DIFFERENT AND SAFE ROUTE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES.
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 101 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:02 UTC.
2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Trees were uprooted and 21 homes were damaged. 3 businesses had their roofs ripped off and windows blown out.
A foot or more of water flooded several roads.
Flooding forced evacuations in a mobile home park, and several roads were flooded.
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, June 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: 5365492, 5365490, 5365491.