1 cold/wind chill, 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 Jul 24, 1:30 AM CST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 230 AM CDT THU JUL 24 2003 TROF AXIS WILL SHIFT EAST AND SOUTH OF THE AREA TODAY AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN FROM THE NORTH. MODELS INDICATE NICE DRYING ACROSS THE AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT AND WILL LEAVE POPS OUT OF THE FORECAST. CHANGES BEGIN TO TAKE PLACE ON FRIDAY AS LOW LEVEL SOUTHERLY FLOW ONCE AGAIN DEVELOPS AND THEN INCREASES FRIDAY NIGHT. WILL CONTINUE WITH THE TREND OF THE CURRENT FORECAST AND GO WITH ISOLATED POPS ACROSS THE SOUTH ON FRIDAY AND THEN ISOLATED POPS ALL SECTIONS FRIDAY NIGHT. FOR THE WEEKEND...EXPECT MORE OF TYPICAL SUMMERTIME PATTERN WITH ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING DURING THE PEAK HEATING HOURS. IN THE EXTENDED FORECAST(MON-WED)...WEAK FRONT WILL APPROACH THE AREA FROM THE NORTHWEST ON MONDAY AND THEN MOVE INTO THE NORTHERN SECTIONS ON TUESDAY. FRONT WILL REMAIN IN THE VICINITY OF THE FORECAST AREA THROUGH WEDNESDAY. AT THIS POINT WILL GO WITH CHANCE POPS ACROSS ALL SECTIONS FOR THIS TIME FRAME. FINALLY...WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE OBSERVATIONS AND SATELLITE FOR LOW CLOUDS/FOG DEVELOPMENT EARLY THIS MORNING AND MAKE LAST MINUTE CHANGES JUST BEFORE RELEASE TIME. .PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... BHM 88 65 89 69 90/ 00 00 05 10 20 MGM 90 67 90 71 91/ 05 05 20 20 30 .BHM...NONE.
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 low temperature measured at the Tuscaloosa Municipal Airport was 63 degrees. This established a new record low temperature. The previous record was 64 degrees set back in 1966.
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: 5375483.