2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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 Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 3, 3:06 AM CST, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA 406 AM CDT SUN AUG 3 2003 DISC... ------------------------------------------- SUBTLE FEATURES ALL TEAM TO PROVIDE ANOTHER BUSY NIGHT. MINOR WAVE IN FLOW TRANSPARENT AT H500 BUT HINTED AT IN THERMAL FIELD H700 LEVEL... ALONG WITH WEAK LLJ AND CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY RESIDUE...AND AMPLE MOISTURE YIELD POTENT THUNDER. SATELLITE / LIGHTNING DATA SHOW LINEAR NEBRASKA/KANSAS CONVECTION ALSO SLIDING SOUTH. PUSHED POPS INTO LIKELY CAT FOR MORNING HOURS MOST PLACES. 00Z GFS QPF BULLSEYE VALID 18Z / 00Z INITIALLY REGARDED AS OVER-JUICED FEEDBACK...HOWEVER GIVEN THE CURRENT RADAR PICTURE... LOOKING BETTER ALL THE TIME. GFS EVEN DEVELOPS MINOR H500 00Z KINK AROUND TXK. MAX TEMPS CLOSER MET THAN MAV AGAIN TODAY. EVENTUALLY GREAT LAKES LOW HEADS FOR QUEBEC AND WEST COAST LOW GIVES A BOOST TO HEIGHTS OVER ROCKIES. AS HEIGHTS BUILD..THE BULK OF NORTHWEST FLOW WOES WILL MIGRATE EAST. GW -------------------------------------------- TUL 97 75 94 76 / 70 40 20 20 FSM 93 72 92 74 / 70 30 20 20 MLC 93 73 93 74 / 60 20 20 20 BVO 96 70 93 73 / 50 40 20 20 FYV 87 68 87 69 / 60 40 20 20 BYV 90 70 86 70 / 50 30 20 20 MKO 95 74 93 74 / 70 30 20 20 MIO 94 72 91 72 / 50 30 20 20 F10 96 74 94 74 / 70 20 20 20 HHW 93 74 94 74 / 60 20 20 20 FORECAST ID= 21 .TSA... AR...NONE. OK...NONE.
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-031100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1035 AM CDT SAT AUG 02 2003 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK ...SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... A WEAKENING COMPLEX OF STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE OUT OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS MORNING. HOWEVER... ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON ALONG ANY RESIDUAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES PRODUCED FROM THIS MORNINGS STORMS...MAINLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 40. AS THE LOW LEVEL JET STRENGTHENS TONIGHT...ELEVATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY ONCE AGAIN DEVELOP OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST-CENTRAL ARKANSAS. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP. WARNING PROBABILITIES FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES CAN BE FOUND IN THE OUTLOOK SECTION AT: WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA. GIVEN PROBABILITIES REPRESENT THE POTENTIAL FOR A WARNING TO BE ISSUED AT YOUR LOCATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THE CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN IN FORECAST FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS AS DISTURBANCES MOVE SOUTHEAST OVER THE UPPER RIDGE. .SPOTTER / EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT...SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL MAY BE REQUIRED ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT... WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA
OKZ054>055-057>076-031300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 233 AM CDT SUN AUG 3 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 833 UNTIL 800 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS: IN OKLAHOMA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 23 COUNTIES... IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA: CHEROKEE MUSKOGEE OKFUSKEE SEQUOYAH IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA: ADAIR CRAIG CREEK DELAWARE MAYES OKMULGEE OSAGE OTTAWA PAWNEE ROGERS TULSA WAGONER WASHINGTON NOWATA IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA: HASKELL LATIMER LE FLORE MCINTOSH PITTSBURG THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF BARTLESVILLE...BRISTOW...BROKEN ARROW... CLAREMORE...EUFAULA...JAY...MCALESTER...MIAMI...MUSKOGEE...OKEMAH... OKMULGEE...PAWHUSKA...PAWNEE...POTEAU...PRYOR...SALLISAW...SAND SPRINGS...STIGLER...STILWELL...TAHLEQUAH...TULSA...VINITA...WAGONER AND WILBURTON.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
0430 AM CDT SUN AUG 03 2003
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0400 AM DEPEW OK GOLFBALL HAIL
08/03/03 CREEK REPORTED BY BRISTOW EMThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew large tree limbs and power lines down.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs and power lines.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arkansas in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Arkansas, 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: 5333275, 5333274, 5333276.