1 tornado, 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 May 27, 1:36 PM EST, 3 hours 54 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 236 PM EDT TUE MAY 27 2003 UPPER LOW TO N PERSISTS TROUGH WED...THEN MOVES OFFSHORE THU. EXPECT SOME RESIDUAL CONVECTION TO LINGER INTO THE EVENING... ESPECIALLY E PORTION. DRYING IN WAKE OF SHORTWAVE TONIGHT...COMBINED WITH LACK OF AN UPPER LEVEL FEATURE...WILL KEEP WED DRY. BY THU ANOTHER SHORTWAVE DROPS SE AROUND BASE OF EXITING UPPER LOW...AND VORT LOBE BECOMES LESS CHANNELED. MOISTURE RATHER LIMITED WITH THIS FEATURE...AND WILL LIMIT POPS TO CHANCE. WEAK FROPA LATE THU WITH NW FLOW FOLLOWING. CARRIED A FEW SHOWERS N NC MOUNTAINS BEHIND FRONT THU NIGHT. AREA DRY FRI IN W FLOW. MAIN CHANGE TO PREVIOUS EXTENDED PACKAGE WAS TO SPEED UP WEEKEND FRONT. GULF CLOSED..SO NOT MUCH MOISTURE. EXPECT CHANCE CONVECTION WITH FRONT BEGINNING SAT IN MOUNTAINS...AND ACROSS AREA SAT NIGHT. LATEST GFS RUN WOULD DRY AREA OUT COMLETELY BY SUN MORNING. MON AND TUE DRY AS SURFACE RIDGE CROSSES AREA. FCSTID = 7 GSP 55 79 57 79 / 20 10 30 30 AND 55 80 58 79 / 20 10 30 30 CLT 55 80 58 79 / 20 10 20 30 HKY 54 78 56 77 / 20 10 30 30 AVL 50 75 53 74 / 20 10 40 40 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. O7
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-271200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 545 AM EDT TUE MAY 27 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY SCATTERED TO ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. NED
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
This weak tornado blew down a number of pine trees and mangled the tops of a few large oak trees near the end of its path. The tornado also detroyed a tin-covered barn and blew 1/4 of the shingles off of a house before lifting.
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 historyThe tornado archive for North Carolina, 2003Warnings 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: 5357000.