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 Jul 11, 12:50 PM EST, 6 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 150 PM EDT FRI JUL 11 2003 WILL UPDATE TO INCLUDE NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR UPSTATE SC AND NE GA THROUGH 8 PM EDT. FCSTID = 33 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. HG
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-111100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 511 AM EDT FRI JUL 11 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE REGION TODAY...BRINGING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER...ESPECIALLY IN THE PIEDMONT AND FOOTHILLS. PLEASE SEE THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...CAESPSGSP...FOR MORE INFORMATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SCATTERED...MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE DURING MUCH OF THE NEXT 7 DAYS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON. LANE
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
513 PM EDT FRI JUL 11 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
505 PM HUNTERSVILLE NC WIND DAMAGE
07/11/03 MECKLENBURG TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN IN HUNTERSVILLE.
COUNTY 911 REPORT.
BURRUSPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
537 PM EDT FRI JUL 11 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
510 PM CONCORD NC WIND DAMAGE
07/11/03 CABARRUS TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN IN CONCORD...AS WELL
AS ACROSS THE REST OF THE
COUNTY. POWER OUT TO MOST
OF CONCORD. REPORTED BY
COUNTY COMMS CENTER.
MCAVOYPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
542 PM EDT FRI JUL 11 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
515 PM 2 S CHARLOTTE NC FLASH FLOOD
07/11/03 MECKLENBURG HAM SPOTTER REPORTED
BRIDGE FLOODED AT NATIONS
FORD AND I-77.
530 PM KANNAPOLIS NC WIND DAMAGE
07/11/03 ROWAN TREE FELL ON MOBILE HOME
ON BRANTLEY RD. ODELL
F.D. ON SCENE. REPORTED
BY HAM SPOTTER.
517 PM ROCKWELL NC WIND DAMAGE
07/11/03 ROWAN ROWAN EOC REPORTED TREES
DOWN IN ROCKWELL...10 S
OF SALISBURY.
528 PM GRANITE QUARRY NC WIND DAMAGE
07/11/03 ROWAN ROWAN EOC REPORTED TREES
DOWN IN GRANITE
QUARRY...5 S OF
SALISBURY.
LAMBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
630 PM EDT FRI JUL 11 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
527 PM 11 E CHARLOTTE NC WIND DAMAGE
07/11/03 MECKLENBURG TREES DOWN IN MINT HILL.
REPORT FROM COUNTY 911
CENTER.
BURRUSPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
715 PM EDT FRI JUL 11 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
710 PM STALLINGS NC URBAN FLOODING
07/11/03 UNION SPOTTER REPORTED NUMEROUS
ROADS FLOODED IN WESTERN
UNION COUNTY. FAITH
CHURCH RD...ROCKY RIVER
RD. IMPEDING MOST
TRAFFIC.
LAMBGAZ018-026-028-SCZ004>008-010-012-013-120100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 718 PM EDT FRI JUL 11 2003 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO AFFECT UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA THROUGH 9 PM... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OUT OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS WILL AFFECT THE MAJOR CITIES OF UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA THROUGH 9 PM. THESE STORMS WILL BRING FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY GUSTY WINDS AND BETWEEN ONE AND TWO INCHES OF RAIN TO GREENVILLE AND THE GOLDEN STRIP...CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SPARTANBURG COUNTY... AND TO NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ANDERSON COUNTY THROUGH 9 PM. THE STORMS WILL PASS AS FAR SOUTH AS UNION AND LAURENS COUNTIES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET... FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. 44
The Greer radar (KGSP), 3 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:11 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
An empty trailer was moved several feet by the wind. A manufacturing plant suffered roof damage and 2- inch steel flagpoles were broken in half.
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, July 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5329521.