1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Aug 5, 1:56 PM EST, 5 hours 4 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 256 PM EDT TUE AUG 5 2003 CONVECTION ASSOCIATED WITH UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE DEVELOPING IN W AND SPREADING E. ALTHOUGH SHORTWAVE EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH AREA RATHER QUICKLY...WILL NEED TO CARRY HIGH POPS COINCIDENT WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES EARLY THIS EVENING. UPPER LEVEL TROUGH AXIS TO LINGER OVER E THIS PACKAGE...WITH ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE REMAINING ALONG AND E OF MOUNTAINS. WEAK BOUNDARY STILL HINTED AT BY MODELS...MOVING INTO WED AND REMAINING THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK. WEAK UPPER IMPULSES WILL PROVOKE SCATTERED CONVECTION EACH AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AND WITH NO REAL CHANGE IN AIR MASS...POPS AND TEMPERATURES NEAR PERSISTENCE THROUGH DAY 7. FCSTID = 7 GSP 68 86 69 86 / 60 40 40 40 AND 69 88 69 88 / 60 40 40 40 CLT 68 87 69 87 / 60 40 40 40 HKY 65 85 67 84 / 60 40 40 40 AVL 62 82 64 81 / 60 40 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- 019-051100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 505 AM EDT TUE AUG 5 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA TODAY. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD REACH SEVERE LEVELS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL CAN ALSO BE ANTICIPATED. SEE THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK (CAESPSGSP) FOR MORE DETAILED INFORMATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE PERIOD...MAINLY IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WITH THE GROUND NEARLY SATURATED RAINFALL WILL RUNOFF INTO NEARBY STREAMS AND CREEKS. IF THESE HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP THROUGHOUT THE WEEK AS EXPECTED...FLOODING MAY RESULT. SEE THE LATEST FLOOD POTENTIAL OUTLOOK (ESFGSP) FOR MORE DETAILED INFORMATION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. NED
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
415 PM EDT TUE AUG 05 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
414 PM LINCOLNTON NC .75 INCH HAIL
08/05/03 LINCOLN COUNTY 911 REPORTED DIME
SIZE HAIL IN DOWNTOWN.
LAMBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
509 PM EDT TUE AUG 05 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
418 PM SHARON SC WIND DAMAGE
08/05/03 YORK TREE DOWN.
439 PM CLOVER SC WIND DAMAGE
08/05/03 YORK TREE AND POWERLINES DOWN
ON HIGHWAY 45.
RB
LOTS MID WHEEL LEVEL.
MANY ROADWAYS COVERED
WITH WATER AND NUMEROUS
POWER OUTAGES REPORTED.
KRENTZPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
509 PM EDT TUE AUG 05 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
418 PM SHARON SC WIND DAMAGE
08/05/03 YORK TREE DOWN.
439 PM CLOVER SC WIND DAMAGE
08/05/03 YORK TREE AND POWERLINES DOWN
ON HIGHWAY 45.
RBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
521 PM EDT TUE AUG 05 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
515 PM MOUNT HOLLY NC .75 INCH HAIL
08/05/03 GASTON DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED
BY DUKE POWER COMPANY
METEOROLOGIST.
KRENTZPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
532 PM EDT TUE AUG 05 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
525 PM UNION GROVE NC .75 INCH HAIL
08/05/03 IREDELL 3/4 INCH HAIL REPORTED BY
SKYWARN SPOTTER NEAR
HARMONY AND UNION GROVE.
KRENTZPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
546 PM EDT TUE AUG 05 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
528 PM WEST CHARLOTTE NC WIND DAMAGE
08/05/03 MECKLENBURG COUNTY 911 OFFICIALS
REPORTED TREE DOWN ON
HOUSE.
537 PM 3 E UNION GROVE NC 1.75 INCH HAIL
08/05/03 IREDELL GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL
REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
SPOTTER.
KRENTZThe Greer radar (KGSP), 22 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:04 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Severe urban flooding developed in the city. Several vehicles were trapped by flood waters, and some motorists required rescue. Flooding also developed along Lawson's Fork and Fairforest Creeks. A couple of bridges were washed out by flood waters.
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: 5374306.