1 cold/wind chill, 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 Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 23, 1:13 PM CST, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 213 PM CDT WED JUL 23 2003 .OVERVIEW... SURFACE WILL MAKE SLOW PROGRESS TOWARD THE SOUTH TONIGHT...MODELS BRING IT TO JUST SOUTH OF FORECAST AREA BY THURSDAY MORNING. GFS BRINGS FRONT BACK NORTH BY THE WEEKEND. UPPER TROF SHIFTS TO THE NORTHEAST ALLOWING A DRIER AIRMASS TO FILTER INTO FORECAST AREA FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. .SHORT TERM... CURRENT RADAR LOOP INDICATES ISOLATED TO SCATTERED STORMS AHEAD OF COLD FRONT. WILL CONTINUE TRENDS TONIGHT WITH FIRST PERIOD POP HIGHLY DEPENDANT ON RADAR COVERAGE AT TIME OF ISSUANCE. EXPECT STORMS WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH WITH LOSS OF HEATING AT SUNSET. WILL GO WITH A DRY FORECAST THROUGH THE LATTER HALF OF THE WEEK. .EXTENDED... WILL RETURN TO DIURNAL TYPE CONVECTION BY THIS WEEKEND WITH MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING STORMS. MODELS INDICATING THE NEXT SYSTEM WILL APPROACH BY THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK AND WILL CONTINUE CURRENT FORECAST OF CHANCE POPS. .PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... BHM 63 86 64 88 70 / ?? 00 00 00 MGM 67 88 68 88 70 / ?? 10 00 00 .BHM...NONE. 83
ALZ011>015-017>050-232000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 102 PM CDT WED JUL 23 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE COUNTIES SERVED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BIRMINGHAM. .DAY ONE (THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT)... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ROUGHLY SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM LINDEN TO CLANTON TO LINEVILLE. A UNSEASONABLE STRONG COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH SOUTH ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA TODAY. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR ACROSS THE AREA TODAY. SOME STORMS MAY BE BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING DAMAGING WINDS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL OCCUR SOUTH OF A SELMA TO AUBURN LINE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN (THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY)... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS MAY BE REQUESTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ALONG AND SOUTH OF A SELMA TO AUBURN LINE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.
The high temperature measured at Dannelly Field was 82 degrees. This established a new lowest high temperature reading. The previous record was 86 degrees set back in 1980.
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, 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5376685.