3 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 Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 11, 8:35 PM CST, 1 hour 21 minutes earlier.
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA 935 PM CDT FRI JUL 11 2003 CONVECTION GRADUALLY FILLING IN ALONG STRENGTHENING BOUNDARY WHILE INDIVIDUAL CELLS ARE GAINING A MORE SOUTHERLY COMPONENT TO THEIR MOVEMENT. SEVERE WEATHER PARAMETERS /DEEP LAYER SHEAR...ELEVATED INSTABILITY/ REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR A CONTINUATION OF A SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. A NEW WEATHER WATCH WILL BE FORTHCOMING. WILL TAPER POPS OFF FURTHER SOUTH AS INSTABILITY AND FORCING REALLY TAPERS OFF. FORECAST ID= 07 .TSA... AR...NONE. OK...NONE.
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-121100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 440 PM CDT FRI JUL 11 2003 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...TODAY SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK ...CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT... THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS EVENING ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS IN THE VICINITY OF A WEAK COLD FRONT. THE AIRMASS SOUTH OF THE FRONT HAS BECOME INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE AND THUNDERSTORMS WHICH DEVELOP WILL MOVE SOUTHWARD APPROACHING NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA BY LATE EVENING. THE FAVORED AREA FOR OVERNIGHT SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE NORTH OF INTERSTATE 40. WINDS ALOFT AND ABUNDANT INSTABILITY ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WITH HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WINDS TO 80 MPH POSSIBLE. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL BE HIGHEST ACROSS NORTHERN LOCATIONS OVERNIGHT WITH CHANCES GRADUALLY SHIFTING SOUTHWARD DURING SATURDAY MORNING. 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...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INTO SATURDAY AS THE COLD FRONT SLOWLY MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AS THE AIRMASS REMAINS MODERATELY UNSTABLE ACROSS THE AREA. THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL DIMINISH ON SUNDAY AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES INTO NORTHERN TEXAS. MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY WILL BE HOT AND DRY AS HIGH PRESSURE PREVAILS AT THE SURFACE AND ALOFT. .SPOTTER / EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT...MAINLY FOR AREAS NORTH OF INTERSTATE 40. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT... WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA
ARZ001>002-010-OKZ055>058-061>063-068>069-120800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 942 PM CDT FRI JUL 11 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #729 UNTIL 300 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS: IN ARKANSAS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 4 COUNTIES... IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS: BENTON CARROLL MADISON WASHINGTON IN OKLAHOMA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 9 COUNTIES... IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA: CHEROKEE IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA: ADAIR CRAIG DELAWARE MAYES NOWATA OTTAWA ROGERS WASHINGTON THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF BARTLESVILLE...BENTONVILLE... BERRYVILLE...CLAREMORE...EUREKA SPRINGS...FAYETTEVILLE... HUNTSVILLE...JAY...MIAMI...NOWATA...PRYOR...ROGERS...SILOAM SPRINGS...SPRINGDALE...STILWELL...TAHLEQUAH AND VINITA.
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 88 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:57 UTC.
3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour uprooted trees and damaged a trailer at Holiday Island.
Thundestorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
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, 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: 5378837, 5378838, 5378839.