1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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 May 16, 1:56 PM EST, 4 hours 34 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 256 PM EDT FRI MAY 16 2003 WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR KGSP 88D TRENDS THROUGH ZFP ISSUANCE TIME FOR DEVELOPMENT OF DEEP CONVECTION...WHETHER ITS IN THE HIGHER CAPE VALUES ACROSS THE UPSTATE/NE GA...IN THE IMMEDIATE LEE WHERE ETA HAS PROGGED LLVL CONVERGENCE MAX...OR JUST MOVING INTO THE NC MTNS FROM DEVELOPMENT ACRS THE TENN VALLEY. FOR THE TIME BEING...PLAN CHC POPS FOR TSTMS ALL AREAS INTO THIS EVENING. LATER TONIGHT...EVEN WITH LARGE SCALE STABILIZATION OF ATMOSPHERE...WILL KEEP CHC POPS FOR SHOWERS OVERNIGHT AS DEEPER RH AND WEAK VORT AXIS ROTATES EAST INTO THE CWFA. ON SATURDAY...STABLE AIR WILL BEGIN TO APRCH THE CWFA FROM THE NORTH AS HYBRID DAMMING REGIME DEVELOPS. PLAN ON CONFINING TSTM CHCS ALONG PERIPHERY OF DEVELOPING SFC WEDGE...ROUGHLY ALONG ETA DEPICTION OF POSITIVE CAPE AREA AND SPC DAY 2 GNRL RISK. STARTING SATURDAY NIGHT ...CWFA TO REMAIN UNDER PERSISTENT CAD WITH BEST MOISTURE AND LIFT ...MAINLY FROM SOUTHERLY UPGLIDE FLOW ABOVE WEDGE LAYER...ACRS SW ZONES...HENCE BEST POPS...WITH AN UPPER LIMIT IN THE HIGH CHC RANGE AND HIGHEST QPF IN THIS AREA. PROBABLY WILL SEE DAMMING REGIME CONTINUE RIGHT INTO TUESDAY UNTIL COLD FRONT APRCHS ON WEDNESDAY WHERE CHC OF THUNDER REMAINS. PATTERN LOOKS LESS AMPLIFIED THAN WHAT OBSERVED YESTERDAY FOR DAYS 6-7...AS AFOREMENTIONED COLD FRONT MAY WIND UP JUST LAYING OVER ACRS THE REGION FOR THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. FCSTID = 55 GSP 61 75 59 70 / 40 60 50 50 AND 61 75 59 70 / 40 60 50 50 CLT 60 72 57 68 / 40 50 50 50 HKY 59 71 55 65 / 40 50 50 50 AVL 57 70 56 68 / 40 60 50 50 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
242 PM EDT FRI MAY 16 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
615 PM 3 N SALISBURY NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/15/03 ROWAN STORM SPOTTER REPORTED
DIME TO QUARTER SIZED
HAIL BETWEEN 6 AND 630
PM.
OUTLAW/LANEPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
324 PM EDT FRI MAY 16 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
525 PM 8 SW TAYLORSVILLE NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/15/03 ALEXANDER STORM SPOTTER REPORTED
QUARTER SIZED HAIL IN THE
BETHLEHEM AREA OF
SOUTHWEST ALEXANDER.
BRUCE/OUTLAWThe Greer radar (KGSP), 10 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:31 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Several trees were blown down. One fell on a house.
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, 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5356935, 5356936.