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 Jul 9, 1:33 PM EST, 5 hours 12 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 233 PM EDT FRI JUL 9 2004 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY)... UPPER LEVEL RIDGE RETROGRADES ACROSS SE USA THROUGH WEEKEND... RESULTING IN LOW AMPLITUDE TROUGHING ALONG EAST COAST BY SUN NIGHT. MOISTURE NOW S OF AREA TO GRADUALLY MOVE NORTHWEST THEN SOUTHEAST AROUND UPPER RIDGE...SUCH THAT BY SUN BEST MOISTURE LOCATED ACROSS N TIER OF AREA. ETA PLAYING UP OMEGA WITH VERY WEAK IMPULSES SAT AND TO A LESSER DEGREE SUN NIGHT. WITH ETA SHOWING ONLY WEAK IMPULSE SAT...WILL RAISE POP ONLY TO SMALL CHANCE...FAVORING MOUNTAINS WHERE BEST MOISTRUE WILL BE. MAINTAINING DIURNAL TREND...WILL CARRY SMALL CHANCE POP SUN/MON AS MOISTURE MIGRATES E ALONG I-40 CORRIDOR THEN DOWN I-77 CORRIDOR. TEMPERATURES WARMEST SAT...THEN GRADUALLY FALL AS RIDGE AXIS MOVES AWAY TOWARD W. MINIMUM TEMPERATURES LIMITED BY MOISTURE IN HUMID SUMMER AIR MASS. && .LONG TERM (MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY)... UPPER RIDGE AXIS REMAINS E OF REGION THROUGH THE EXTENDED PERIOD. THIS WILL ALLOW OCCASIONAL WEAK SHORTWAVE ENERGY TO AFFECT THE CWA AS UPPER DISTURBANCES PASS MAINLY N AND E OF THE AREA. LIGHT W TO NW LOW LEVEL FLOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEK. DAYTIME HIGHS SHOULD REACH THE LOW 90S ACROSS THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT WITH LOWS NEAR 70. ALTHOUGH DEEPER MOISTURE IS FORECAST TO BE SOMEWHAT LIMITED...SUFFICIENT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE IS EXPECTED FOR SCT AFTN-EVE CONVECTION EACH DAY. && .AVIATION... ALTHOUGH HI PRESSURE BUILDS ALOFT...VERY WEAK FORCING AT 500MB WAS DEPICTED ON THE 12Z MODELS TO THE S. ISOLD TO SCATTERED CONVECTION IS EXPECTED TO INITIATE WITH HEATING AS AREA BECOMES SLIGHTLY UNSTABLE AND CB CLOUD TYPE HAS BEEN INCLUDED IN THE SC TAFS...ALSO AT AVL DUE TO LOWER CONVECTIVE TEMP OVER THE MTNS. HKY AND CLT ARE CAPPED DUE TO DRYER AIR AND MID LEVEL WARM ADVECTION. PATCHY MVFR FOG OCCURRED THIS MORNING AND THE SAME IS EXPECTED AROUND DAYBREAK SAT. WILL NOT PUT FOG IN TAFS ATTM BUT IF RAIN OCCURS NEAR AN AIRFIELD...EARLY AM FOG WILL BECOME MORE LIKELY. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SHORT TERM...JAT LONG TERM...RB AVIATION...RB
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 540 AM EDT FRI JUL 9 2004 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-100939- ABBEVILLE SC-ALEXANDER NC-ANDERSON SC-AVERY NC-BUNCOMBE NC-BURKE NC- CABARRUS NC-CALDWELL NC-CATAWBA NC-CHEROKEE SC-CHESTER SC- CLEVELAND NC-DAVIE NC-ELBERT GA-FRANKLIN GA-GASTON NC-GRAHAM NC- GREATER GREENVILLE SC-GREATER OCONEE SC-GREATER PICKENS SC- GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS SC-GREENWOOD SC-HABERSHAM GA-HART GA-HAYWOOD NC- HENDERSON NC-IREDELL NC-LAURENS SC-LINCOLN NC-MACON NC-MADISON NC- MCDOWELL NC-MECKLENBURG NC-MITCHELL NC-NORTHERN JACKSON NC- OCONEE MOUNTAINS SC-PICKENS MOUNTAINS SC-POLK NC-RABUN GA-ROWAN NC- RUTHERFORD NC-SOUTHERN JACKSON NC-SPARTANBURG SC-STEPHENS GA- SWAIN NC-TRANSYLVANIA NC-UNION SC-UNION NC-YANCEY NC-YORK SC- 540 AM EDT FRI JUL 9 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE... ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA TODAY. ONE OR TWO STORMS COULD PRODUCE ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER AND/OR LOCALLY EXCESSIVE RAINFALL. PLEASE SEE THE SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CAESPSGSP...FOR DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED DURING MOST AFTERNOONS AND EVENINGS OVER THE NEXT 7 DAYS. THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER AND LOCALLY EXCESSIVE RAINFALL ON MOST DAYS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. LANE
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 78 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:46 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Hyatt Creek overflowed its banks near Waynesville, flooding a bridge and forcing evacuation of 60 to 100 residents from the Green Valley mobile home park. Several small streams flooded in the Canton area, and the Pigeon River flooded some farmland.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, July 2004
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: 5417866.