1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. 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 Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 2, 1:18 PM EST, 27 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 218 PM EDT FRI MAY 2 2003 UPDATE TO ACCOUNT FOR MCS CONVECTION NOW CROSSING MOUNTAINS. FCSTID = 7 GSP 82 58 77 51 / 70 40 20 20 AND 83 58 79 52 / 70 40 20 20 CLT 82 58 78 50 / 70 40 20 20 HKY 81 56 74 48 / 80 40 20 20 AVL 78 54 73 47 / 80 50 20 20 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. O7
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-021115- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 520 AM EDT FRI MAY 2 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY BE SEVERE. PLEASE SEE CAESPSGSP SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND/OR EVENING. LANE
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-022000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 947 AM EDT FRI MAY 2 2003 ...SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA FROM THE NORTH THIS AFTERNOON. AHEAD OF THE FRONT...A WARM AND MOIST AIR MASS WILL SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON...WHICH WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO ACTIVATE QUICKLY THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. DISPATCHERS SHOULD ENSURE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ARE AWARE OF THIS INFORMATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS POTENTIAL SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. 07
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1120 AM EDT FRI MAY 02 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
530 PM TALLULAH FALLS GA .88 INCH HAIL
04/29/03 HABERSHAM BETWEEN DIME AND QUARTER
SIZE HAIL AT STATE PARK
AND POST OFFICE AREA.
645 PM 7 SW CLAYTON GA 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/30/03 RABUN HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS
ON BRIDGE CREEK ROAD NEAR
LAKE BURTON REPORTED BY
911 CENTER.
630 PM 6 N TOCCOA GA 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/30/03 STEPHENS HAIL DIME TO QUARTER
COVERED THE GROUND 3
INCHES DEEP ON BLACK MTN
ROAD AT EOC DIRECTORS
HOME. DESTROYED GARDEN.
630 PM TALLULAH FALLS GA 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/30/03 HABERSHAM HAIL FROM DIME TO QUARTER
SIZE COVERED THE GROUND
REPORTED BY STORE
EMPLOYEE.
TJBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
241 PM EDT FRI MAY 02 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
231 PM CORNELIA GA 1.50 INCH HAIL
05/02/03 HABERSHAM EOC REPORT.
JATThe Knoxville radar (KMRX), 97 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:47 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A few trees were blown down at Western Carolina University.
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, May 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: 5357384.