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 Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 3, 8:58 PM CST, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 958 PM CDT SUN AUG 3 2003 WILL NOT BE UPDATING THE ZONE FORECAST TEXT. HOWEVER...WILL ADJUST THE TEMPERATURE GRID TRENDS TO FIT THE CURRENT TRENDS BETTER. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN THE NORTHEAST. CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA WITH THE WARM FRONT LOCATED NEAR THE MISSOURI BORDER. .LZK...NONE. 51
ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-041000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 550 PM CDT SUN AUG 3 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A STATIONARY FRONT LIFTED FROM NORTHERN ARKANSAS INTO SOUTHERN MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON. THE FRONT IS EXPECTED TO BECOME ACTIVE OVERNIGHT...WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING. WITH A NORTHERLY FLOW ALOFT...ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL PUSH INTO NORTHERN ARKANSAS. ALSO...A SYSTEM ALOFT IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS WILL HEAD THROUGH EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND EVENTUALLY INTO WESTERN ARKANSAS. A FEW STORMS MAY DEVELOP IN RESPONSE TO THE SYSTEM...WITH THE STORMS CONFINED MAINLY TO THE WESTERN COUNTIES. ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER MAY OCCUR IN NORTHERN AND WESTERN ARKANSAS OVERNIGHT...WITH HAIL THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP TONIGHT IN NORTHERN AND WESTERN ARKANSAS WILL LINGER INTO MONDAY MORNING BEFORE DISSIPATING. DURING THE HEAT OF MONDAY AFTERNOON...STORMS MAY REDEVELOP BUT THEY SHOULD REMAIN ISOLATED. MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY...A STORM SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH FROM THE WEST. BETTER CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN THE FORECAST...WITH SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE. THE STORMS SHOULD LINGER INTO WEDNESDAY BEFORE BECOMING MORE ISOLATED LATE IN THE WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... IN GENERAL...SEVERE WEATHER WILL REMAIN ISOLATED THROUGH TONIGHT. AS A RESULT...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. 46
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
731 PM CDT SUN AUG 3 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0710 PM GLENCOE AR .75 INCH HAIL
08/03/03 FULTON REPORTED BY
STORM SPOTTER
0725 PM HORSESHOE BEND AR .75 INCH HAIL
08/03/03 IZARD REPORTED BY
STORM SPOTTER
28PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
830 PM CDT SUN AUG 3 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0930 AM 7 SW LESLIE AR 1.00 INCH HAIL
08/03/03 SEARCY HAIL LASTED 15 MINUTES.
HAIL DAMAGED GARDEN AND
KNOCKED NUMEROUS LEAVES OFF
TREES. REPORTED BY PUBLIC
0930 AM 7 SW LESLIE AR WIND DAMAGE
08/03/03 SEARCY LARGE LIMBS DOWN. REPORTED
BY PUBLIC
28PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 1110 PM CDT
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1110 PM CDT SUN AUG 3 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0920 PM 5 NE MOUNTAIN VIEW AR WIND DAMAGE
08/03/03 STONE TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN. REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER
28PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
1121 PM CDT SUN AUG 3 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1041 PM WILBURN AR .75 INCH HAIL
08/03/03 CLEBURNE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
1055 PM 5 S WILBURN AR WIND DAMAGE
08/03/03 CLEBURNE TREE DOWN ON HIGHWAY 337.
REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
28The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 82 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:37 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs, knocked down a portion of a fence and blew around some large propane bottles.
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: 5333666.