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 Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 6, 3:34 AM CST, 4 hours 41 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 435 AM CDT WED AUG 6 2003 JUST SENT OUT THE ZONES. GUT FEELING WAS CORRECT ABOUT SECONDARY AREA FOR MCS DEVELOPMENT. DRY PUNCH NOW SUPPORTING AREA MOVING THROUGH WESTERN TN... OVERNIGHT MCS TOPS ARE WARMING VIA IR. CAN SEE NEW DEVELOPMENT ON MEM RADAR. AT THIS RATE... SUSPECT LARGER RAIN COVERAGE THROUGH 18Z SHIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST AND SOUTHEAST WITH TIME. GETTING HIT HARD AT THE OFFICE NOW... POWER JUST WENT OUT DUE TO CG STRIKE JUST OUTSIDE THE OFFICE. BELIEVE UPPER SUPPORT IS THERE FOR 70 POPS CENTRAL TO NORTH... 60 SOUTH. WILL WATCH OUT FOR FLOODING. .BHM...NONE. 87 GRAHAM
ALZ011>015-017>050-061430- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 725 AM CDT WED AUG 06 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE COUNTIES SERVED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BIRMINGHAM. .DAY ONE (TODAY AND TONIGHT)... NORTHWEST AND CENTRAL ALABAMA IS ABOUT TO COME UNDER THE GUN WITH A COMPLEX MOVING DOWN FROM THE NORTHWEST. AS THIS COMPLEX MOVES IN THIS MORNING...A FEW WARNINGS MAY NEED TO BE ISSUED. AS WE TRANSITION INTO THE AFTERNOON...TODAYS DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE OUT OF THE AREA. THAT WILL LIKELY LEND WAY TO SOME MID TO LATE AFTERNOON SUN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN (THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY)... NO REST FOR THE WEARY. UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL KEEP MOVING OVER THE AREA...KEEPING CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE FORECAST...THOUGH COVERAGE AND INTENSITY OF STORMS WILL NOT BE AS HIGH. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... AREA WIDE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL MAY BE NECESSARY THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
757 AM CDT WED AUG 6 2003
.A THUNDERSTORM ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR MARION COUNTY UNTIL 900 AM
CDT...
.FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND IS POSSIBLE FROM AN
APPROACHING THUNDERSTORM.
AT 752 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM OVER BEXAR...MOVING SOUTHEAST AROUND 20 MPH.
THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND NEAR BEXAR...WESTON...
HAMILTON...WHITEHOUSE AND BRILLIANT THROUGH 900 AM CDT.
THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THESE STORMS IS FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING STRIKES. SOME POWER OUTAGES ARE POSSIBLE. AVOID USING
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. IF YOU FEEL YOUR
SKIN TINGLE...OR YOUR HAIR STAND ON END...SQUAT AS LOW TO THE GROUND
AS POSSIBLE.
ALSO...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED IN A SHORT PERIOD OF
TIME...PRODUCING LOCALIZED FLOODING OF STREETS AND DRAINAGE AREAS.
LAT...LON 3419 8820 3432 8812 3414 8764 3388 8764
3404 8798 3413 8820The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A few roads were flooded in Marion County. Vehicles were stranded in high water.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alabama in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, 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: 5368461.