1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Aug 1, 2:10 PM EST, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 310 PM EDT FRI AUG 1 2003 CONVECTIVE COVERAGE OVER THE GSP CWA IS FAIRLY LIMITED ATTM. TO THE WEST...THERE IS GOOD COVERAGE ACROSS THE GREAT VALLEY OF TN UNDER THE H5 VORT IN AN AREA THAT HAS HAD MORE SUN AND SLIGHTLY STEEPER LAPSE RATES. TO THE EAST...CONVECTION IS BEGINNING TO UNZIP ALONG A THERMAL GRADIENT...JUST EAST OF ENTRANCE REGION INDUCED MID CLOUD DECK WHICH HAS HELD TEMPS DOWN INTO THE MID 70S ACROSS OUR NC PIEDMONT ZONES DURING THE DAY. LINE OF DRYING EVIDENT ON WATER VAPOR HAS BEEN MUCH SLOWER TO ENTER REGION THAT THE MODELS ADVERTISED. PW THIS MORNING AT GSO WAS 2.11 INCHES...WHILE IT WAS AROUND 1.5 INCHES AT BNA. APPEARS NOW THAT BEST FORCING WL STALL JUST E OF THE CWA...IN THE H3 JET ENTRANCE REGION. HOWEVER...SOME WEAK UPSLOPE/LEE CONVERGENCE CONTINUES...AND AS THE H5 WAVE WORKS ACROSS THE CWA THIS EVENING...THERE SHOULD BE GOOD COVERAGE. HAVE GONE LIKELY POPS IN ROUGHLY THE EASTERN HALF OF THE CWA...AND CHANCE WEST...W/POPS LOWERING LATER TNGT. SO...WL NOT ISSUE ANY KIND OF FFA ATTM...THOUGH WL CERTAINLY HAVE TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE LEE SLOPES LATER THIS EVENING AS UPSLOPE IS PROGGED TO GET BETTER AFTER 00 UTC. HAVE NOT MADE MANY CHANGES TO THE GRIDS FOR SAT. LIKE THE MID SHIFT/S AFTN DEVELOPMENT IN THE LEE. W/CONSIDERABLY LESS CLOUD COVER TMRW (AFTER MORNING STRATUS)...WE SHOULD HAVE BETTER DESTABILIZATION AND MORE TYPICAL CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT ALONG THE ESCARPMENT WHICH THEN DRIFTS INTO THE LEE. PW/S ARE PROGGED TO BE LOWER MOST OF THE DAY TMRW...BUT THEY WL STILL BE HIGH ENOUGH FOR ISOLATED HEAVY RAIN. LATE SAT NGHT MCS REMNANTS SHOULD AFFECT THE WRN ZONES. MRX INCREASES THEIR POPS TO LIKELY LATE...AND WE MATCH UP WELL IN THIS REGARD. FLOW IS ORIENTED SUCH THAT ACTIVITY SHOULD NOT MAKE IT TOO FAR E OF THE MTS...THOUGH ACTIVITY MAY POP ALONG THE LEE SLOPES. LONG WAVE SHARPENS CONSIDERABLY ON SUNDAY...PUTTING US IN A DEEP...WET SWLY FLOW. GOOD SHEAR AND PLENTY OF MINOR WAVES SWINGING THROUGH THE TROF. IT IS ANYBODY/S GUESS AS TO EXACTLY WHERE MINOR WAVES WL BE CONSIDERING MCV POTENTIAL W/THIS PATTERN...SO HAVE KEPT POPS AT 50 PERCENT SUN AND SUN NGHT. ON MONDAY THE LONG WAVE CONTINUES TO TRUNDLE SLOWLY TO THE SE. SHEAR IS STRONGER...SO WHILE THE SEVERE THREAT WL BE HIGHER...HOPEFULLY PCPN WL MOVE A LITTLE FASTER. CONSIDERED ISSUING AN ESF FOR SUN/MON HEAVY RAIN THREAT...BUT DECIDED TO HOLD OFF FOR NOW. FCSTID = 14 GSP 69 86 69 86 / 50 50 50 40 AND 70 87 70 87 / 40 40 40 40 CLT 70 86 70 86 / 60 40 40 40 HKY 68 85 68 84 / 50 40 40 40 AVL 65 82 65 81 / 40 40 40 50 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. MCAVOY
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-011200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 555 AM EDT FRI AUG 1 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE VERY SLOWLY AND COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. FURTHER DETAILS ON THE POTENTIAL FOR EXCESSIVE RAINFALL LATE TODAY CAN BE FOUND IN THE SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...SPSGSP...ISSUED EARLIER THIS MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EACH DAY THROUGH NEXT THURSDAY. GIVEN THE CURRENT MOIST SOIL CONDITIONS ACROSS THE REGION...ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP COULD PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED IF FLOODING DEVELOPS LATER TODAY. HG
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
424 PM EDT FRI AUG 01 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
415 PM ARDEN NC HEAVY RAIN
08/01/03 BUNCOMBE TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED
1 INCH OF RAIN FELL IN
LESS THAN TEN MINUTES.
ALSO ESTIMATED WIND GUSTS
OF 40 MPH.
408 PM SKYLAND NC WIND DAMAGE
08/01/03 BUNCOMBE 911 CENTER REPORTED ONE
TREE DOWN ON HOUSE
BETWEEN ARDEN AND
SKYLAND.
LAMBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
517 PM EDT FRI AUG 01 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
424 PM ARDEN NC WIND DAMAGE
08/01/03 BUNCOMBE COUNTY 911 REPORTED 3-4
TREES DOWN IN ARDEN.
ALSO...ONE TREE FELL ON A
MOBILE HOME.
LAMBGAZ018-026-028-NCZ066-067-SCZ001>007-010-012230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 525 PM EDT FRI AUG 1 2003 AT 520 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A BROKEN LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM COLUMBUS...SOUTHWEST ACROSS CAESARS HEAD STATE PARK...PICKENS...WALHALLA AND TOCCOA. THE LINE WAS SLOWLY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THROUGH 630 PM...SOME OF THE LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS WILL INCLUDE...FOREST CITY...TRAVELERS REST...CLEMSON AND CARNESVILLE. THE STRONGER STORMS IN THE LINE WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAIN...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WINDS OF AROUND 40 MPH. THERE IS A CHANCE THAT THE STORMS WILL BECOME STATIONARY AS THEY MOVE INTO THE UPSTATE AND SOUTHERN NORTH CAROLINA FOOTHILLS. IF THIS HAPPENS...LOCAL FLOODING PROBLEMS COULD QUICKLY DEVELOP. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. MCAVOY
The Greer radar (KGSP), 14 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:58 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Slow-moving thunderstorms produced very heavy rainfall that resulted in rapid flooding from Berea, to Greenville, to Taylors. Many roads flooded and required closing. The Reedy River crested at 9.5 feet in downtown Greenville, and remained above flood stage for much of the night.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Carolina in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in South Carolina, August 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: 5374299.