1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 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 Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 25, 2:36 PM EST, 3 hours 24 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 336 PM EDT SUN MAY 25 2003 SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN QUITE UNSTABLE AIRMASS AHEAD OF NEARLY STATIONARY SURFACE BOUNDARY DRAPED ACROSS THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN 1/4 OF THE CWFA. THE MAIN CONCERN OVERNIGHT WILL SURROUND HEAVY RAINFALL POTENTIAL. EXPECT COVERAGE OF CONVECTION TO INCREASE FURTHER AHEAD OF THE BOUNDARY INTO THE EVENING...AS UPPER LEVEL JET STREAK PASSES WEST AND NORTH OF THE AREA TONIGHT...PLACING MUCH OF THE REGION IN THE RR QUAD BETWEEN 00 AND 06Z. CONVECTIVE CELLS ARE ALREADY INDICATING A TRAINING TREND...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST NC PIEDMONT...AND EASTERN PIEDMONT OF SC. WITH COVERAGE EXPECTED TO INCREASE DURING THE EVENING...AND CONSIDERING ANTECEDENT MOIST CONDITIONS ACROSS THE AREA...HAVE DECIDED TO HOIST A FLOOD WATCH FOR MUCH OF THE I-77 CORRIDOR. WEST OF THE SURFACE BOUNDARY...WE STILL ANTICIPATE A DECENT SHOT OF SEEING SOME RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH THE LARGER SCALE FORCING...BUT WEAKER INSTABILITY WILL INHIBIT HEAVY RAIN THREAT. THE MODELS INIDCATE ONLY A SLIGHT EASTWARD SHIFT OF THE BOUNDARY TOMORROW...BUT WITH LACK OF UPPER SUPPORT...COVERAGE OF CONVECTION SHOULD BE OF A SCATTERED NATURE TOMORROW AFTERNOON...MAINLY ACROSS EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE CWFA. MEANWHILE...DRIER LOW LEVEL AIR AND WARMING MID LEVEL TEMPS WILL INHIBIT CONVECTION ACROSS THE WESTERN HALF OF THE CWFA TOMORROW. THE UPPER LOW WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION ON WEDNESDAY...BUT WITH DEEP LAYER RH SHUNTED EAST OF THE AREA... PRECIPITATION WILL BE DIFFICULT TO COME BY...AND HAVE OPTED TO SHOTGUN A SILENT 20 WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. UPPER LOW FINALLY SHIFTS EAST OF THE REGION WEDNESDAY...BUT ANOTHER NORTHERN STREAM WAVE SLIDES DOWN THE WESTERN PERIPHERY OF THE LOW AND CROSSES THE REGION THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY. POPS HAVE BEEN INCREASED TO THE CHANCE RANGE THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN ADVANCE OF THIS FEATURE. ANOTHER NORTHERN STREAM WAVE PASSES WELL NORTH OF THE AREA OVER THE WEEKEND...BUT DOES SEND A FRONTAL BOUNDARY TOWARD THE REGION BY SUNDAY...WARRANTING A MENTION OF POPS. FCSTID = 4 GSP 62 81 60 77 / 60 40 20 20 AND 62 81 59 78 / 50 20 10 20 CLT 62 81 60 76 / 80 50 20 20 HKY 60 77 58 73 / 60 40 10 20 AVL 58 67 53 72 / 70 20 10 20 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT FOR ZONES NCZ036>037...NCZ056>057... NCZ069>072...NCZ082. SC...FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT FOR ZONE SCZ009. LANE
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-251615- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1055 AM EDT SUN MAY 25 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE...ESPECIALLY FROM ELBERTON AND ABBEVILLE NORTHEAST TO CHESTER AND THE CHARLOTTE METRO AREA. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...SEE THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK ISSUED AT 1050 AM. THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING RAIN WHERE SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP AND MOVE OVER THE SAME AREA REPEATEDLY... MAINLY THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. THE AREA FROM GREENVILLE AND RUTHERFORDTON EAST TO GASTONIA...METRO CHARLOTTE...AND SALISBURY WILL BE ESPECIALLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO FLOOD PROBLEMS DUE TO THE EXCESSIVE RAINS OF LAST WEEK. FOR MORE INFORMATION...SEE THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AGAIN ON MEMORIAL DAY...AND THERE IS THE CHANCE THAT SOME OF THEM COULD BE SEVERE...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE PIEDMONT IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED FROM TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. MORE THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS ON SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. MOORE
NCZ071-SCZ009-251915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 215 PM EDT SUN MAY 25 2003 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER EASTERN YORK COUNTY SOUTH CAROLINA... AT 215 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER EASTERN YORK COUNTY BETWEEN THE CITIES OF YORK AND ROCK HILL. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. ON ITS PRESENT TRACK...THIS STORM WILL MOVE NEAR THE SOUTHERN END OF LAKE WYLIE AROUND 220 PM...THEN PINEVILLE NORTH CAROLINA AROUND 235 PM...AND MATTHEWS AROUND 250 PM. THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH. BOATERS ON THE SOUTHERN END OF LAKE WYLIE SHOULD TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION TO AVOID THE STORM. A WARNING MAY BE ISSUED IF THE STORM CONTINUES TO INTENSIFY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE MEDIA FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. MOORE
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
511 PM EDT SUN MAY 25 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
445 PM 2 N MONROE NC WIND DAMAGE
05/25/03 UNION SPOTTER AND 911 REPORTS
OF TREE DOWN...PART OF
BUILDING BLOWN OFF...AND
TENTS BLOWN DOWN HWY
74/601 AREAS.
455 PM NEW SALEM NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/25/03 UNION SPOTTER REPORTED...ALONG
WITH A HALF INCH OF RAIN
IN A SHORT TIME.
JONESPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
547 PM EDT SUN MAY 25 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
500 PM 2 W GREAT FALLS SC WIND DAMAGE
05/25/03 CHESTER 911 REPORTED A FEW TREES
BLOWN DOWN.
JONESThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Gradual rises along a few creeks and streams culminated in some minor flooding of adjacent roads in the Farmington Road area of Mocksville.
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: 5358878.