1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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, 3 hours 10 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
437 PM CDT WED MAY 07 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0344 PM ASHLAND AL 1.00 IN HAIL
05/07/03 CLAY QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
REPORTED BY CLAY COUNTY
EMA.
0403 PM ASHLAND AL TORNADO
05/07/03 CLAY REPORTED BY CLAY
SHERIFFS OFFICE.
0404 PM ALPINE AL TORNADO
05/07/03 TALLADEGA REPORTED BY TALLADEGA
COUNTY EMA.
0405 PM LINEVILLE AL TORNADO
05/07/03 CLAY BETWEEN LINEVILLE AND
ASHLAND VIEWED BY THE
CLAY COUNTY EMA.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
447 PM CDT WED MAY 07 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0330 PM MUNFORD AL TORNADO
05/07/03 TALLADEGA 12 HOMES AND 1 BUSINESS
DAMAGED. REPORTED BY
MEDIA.
0433 PM ALPINE AL FUNNEL CLOUD
05/07/03 TALLADEGA REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATORS.
0445 PM WEDOWEE AL TORNADO
05/07/03 RANDOLPH TORNADO ON THE GROUND IN
WEDOWEE. REPORTED BY
RANDOLPH COUNTY EMA.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
451 PM CDT WED MAY 07 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0445 PM FULTONDALE AL FLASH FLOOD
05/07/03 JEFFERSON INTERSTATE 65 NORTH SHUT
DOWN. REPORTED BY HAM
RADIO OPERATOR.
0445 PM TRUSSVILLE AL WIND DAMAGE
05/07/03 JEFFERSON CARSON ROAD HAS TREES
DOWN AND MUD SLIDE
COVERING ROAD. REPORTED
BY HAM RADIO OPERATORS.
0445 PM FULTONDALE AL FLASH FLOOD
05/07/03 JEFFERSON HWY 31 SOUTH. SEVERAL
FEET OF WATER COVERED ON
ROADWAY. REPORTED BY HAM
RADIO OPERATORS.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
504 PM CDT WED MAY 07 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0327 PM MILLERVILLE AL TORNADO
05/07/03 CLAY ON HWY 148. REPORTED BY
NWS STORM SPOTTER.
0328 PM MILLERVILLE AL TORNADO
05/07/03 CLAY ON HWY 148 AND SKYLINE
DRIVE. REPORTED BY CLAY
COUNTY EMA.
0330 PM RANBURNE AL 1.00 IN HAIL
05/07/03 CLEBURNE QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
REPORTED BY NWS STORM
SPOTTER.
0333 PM RANBURNE AL TORNADO
05/07/03 CLEBURNE ON HWY 10. REPORTED BY
CLEBURNE COUNTY EMA.
0334 PM ASHLAND AL TORNADO
05/07/03 CLAY ON HWY 9 SOUTH OF
ASHLAND. REPORTED BY
CLAY COUNTY EMA.
0343 PM ASHLAND AL TORNADO
05/07/03 CLAY DAMAGE ON COUNTY ROAD 5.
REPORTED BY CLAY COUNTY
EMA.
0503 PM 7 N LINEVILLE AL TORNADO
05/07/03 CLAY TORNADO ON THE GROUND.
REPORTED BY CLAY COUNTY
EMA.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
520 PM CDT WED MAY 07 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0447 PM LINCOLN AL FLASH FLOOD
05/07/03 TALLADEGA REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR.
0453 PM HOLLINS AL FUNNEL CLOUD
05/07/03 CLAY ON HWY 31. REPORTED BY
HAM RADIO OPERATORS.
0501 PM WEDOWEE AL TORNADO
05/07/03 RANDOLPH ROOF OFF OF 2 OR 3
HOUSES. TRAILOR TURNED
OVER. HOUSE WITH MINOR
DAMAGE. REPORTED BY HAM
RADIO OPERATOR.
0510 PM LINEVILLE AL TORNADO
05/07/03 CLAY TREES DOWN AND ROOF
DAMAGE TO 1 BUSINESS.
REPORTED BY CLAY COUNTY
EMA.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
522 PM CDT WED MAY 07 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0500 PM WEDOWEE AL TORNADO
05/07/03 RANDOLPH MAJOR DAMAGE EAST OF
WEDOWEE. POWER AND
COMMUNICATION LINES
DOWN.The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 150 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:29 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A brief tornado touched down just south of Myrtlewood. The tornado touchdown was witnessed by an Alabama State Trooper and caused little if any damage.Beg: 32 14.003/87 56.181 End: 32 14.003/87 56.181
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alabama in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Alabama, 2003Warnings 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: 5360649.