1 thunderstorm wind, 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 May 7, 1:21 PM CST, 4 hours 44 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL 221 PM CDT WED MAY 07 2003 TOO BUSY FOR MUCH OF A DISCUSSION. ANOTHER IMPULSE WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT. SEVERAL BOUNDARIES WILL PERSIST ACROSS THE AREA ON THURSDAY AND WILL CARRY CHANCE POPS FOR MOST SECTIONS. UPPER RIDGING WILL TAKE PLACE ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AND WILL LEAVE POPS OUT OF THE FORECAST. NEXT SYSTEM WILL APPROACH ON SUNDAY AND THEN MORE UNSETTLED WEATHER THE FIRST PART OF NEXT WEEK. BHM 70/86/70/89/69 53--- MGM 71/89/70/91/69 62--- .BHM...NONE.
ALZ011>015-017>050-072045- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 151 PM CDT WED MAY 07 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE COUNTIES SERVED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BIRMINGHAM. .DAY ONE (THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT)... SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD LAST INTO THE EVENING HOURS WITH LONG LIVED TORNADIC SUPERCELLS MARCHING ACROSS CENTRAL ALABAMA. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE ALSO THREATS...ALONG WITH POSSIBLE FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN (THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY)... AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE WILL GRADUALLY BUILD IN FROM THE SOUTH OVER THE REST OF THE WEEK. THIS WILL MOVE THE AREA OF POTENTIAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NORTHWARD OUT OF ALABAMA FOR THE END OF THE WEEK. ALTHOUGH THERE WILL BE A SMALL CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...AT THIS TIME NO WIDESPREAD OR ORGANIZED AREAS OF SEVERE STORMS AREA EXPECTED ON THOSE DAYS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL AND STORM SPOTTERS HAVE BEEN ACTIVATED.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
608 PM CDT WED MAY 07 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0558 PM 3 S ASHLAND AL TORNADO
05/07/03 CLAY TREES REPORTED DOWN ALONG
HIGHLAND ROAD. PUBLIC
REPORT.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
611 PM CDT WED MAY 07 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0609 PM 3 S WEDOWEE AL FUNNEL CLOUD
05/07/03 RANDOLPH REPORTED BY RANDOLPH
COUNTY EMA.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
619 PM CDT WED MAY 07 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0609 PM 3 S WEDOWEE AL FUNNEL CLOUD
05/07/03 RANDOLPH REPORTED BY RANDOLPH
COUNTY EMA.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
621 PM CDT WED MAY 07 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0609 PM 3 S WEDOWEE AL FUNNEL CLOUD
05/07/03 RANDOLPH REPORTED BY RANDOLPH
COUNTY EMA.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
648 PM CDT WED MAY 07 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0540 PM MYRTLEWOOD AL TORNADO
05/07/03 MARENGO POSSIBLE TORNADO.
REPORTED BY MARENGO
COUNTY EMA.
0642 PM WADLEY AL TORNADO
05/07/03 RANDOLPH TORNADO ON THE GROUND
EAST OF WADLEY. REPORTED
BY RANDOLPH COUNTY EMA.ALZ012>013-015-017>050-080200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA 649 PM CDT WED MAY 07 2003 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 288... BLOUNT...CALHOUN...CHEROKEE...CLEBURNE...ETOWAH... FAYETTE...JEFFERSON...LAMAR...PICKENS...ST CLAIR... TUSCALOOSA...WALKER... THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES REMAIN IN TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 288 WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM... AUTAUGA...BARBOUR...BIBB...BULLOCK...CHAMBERS... CHILTON...CLAY...COOSA...DALLAS...ELMORE... GREENE...HALE...LEE...LOWNDES...MACON... MARENGO...MONTGOMERY...PERRY...PIKE...RANDOLPH... RUSSELL...SHELBY...SUMTER...TALLADEGA...TALLAPOOSA...
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 77 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:06 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Several trees and power lines were blown down in and around Roanoke.
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, 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5360650.