1 flash flood, 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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 12, 4:00 AM CST, 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 500 AM CDT THU JUN 12 2003 UPDATED ZONES TO REMOVE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HEADLINES. 17 PREVIOUS DISCUSSION... HEAVY RAIN FALLING JUST MOSTLY OUT OF THE CWA IN S AND SE AR. CONVECTIVE LINE MOVING EAST BUT FALLING APART FROM THE WEST. CLUSTER OF STORMS OVER NCTRL TX MOVG EAST. A BUFFET OF POPS ON THE TABLE TODAY...TRYING TO FOCUS HEAVY RAIN TALK OVER S AR...WITH POSSIBLY SEVERE IN ALL GROUPS AS PER DAY ONE OUTLOOK. ASSUMING THE S/WV USHERING IN THE CONVECTIVE BAND FROM THE WEST WILL HELP CLEAR THINGS OUT BY END OF THE MORNING...WITH SLIGHT CHANCE POPS THIS AFTERNOON. ANOTHER DISTURBANCE MAY GRACE THE AREA WITH YET ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. ALL IN ALL..THE EXTENDED IS STILL LOOKING UNSETTLED AS UPPER LOW GETS TRAPPED WITHIN THE RIDGE DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS...AND MAY PROVIDE A CLOUDY SHOWERY REGIME THROUGH NEXT WEDNESDAY. 17 SHV 90/75/92/73/87 52224 MLU 90/75/91/72/90 52224 TXK 89/75/92/72/86 42334 TYR 90/75/92/74/88 42224 LFK 90/75/91/74/90 52224 .SHV...NONE.
ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-121059- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1200 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE ENTIRE FOUR STATES REGION BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...BUT ESPECIALLY NORTH OF I 30. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE INTO THE SOUTHERN PLAINS LATER IN THE EVENING. A SIMILAR SCENARIO TO LAST NIGHT COULD UNFOLD WHERE DAMAGING WIND OCCURRED AT A FEW LOCATIONS. A FEW STRONG STORMS COULD DEVELOP DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING AS WELL...WHERE DAYTIME HEATING INTERACTS WITH A HUMID AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE ENTIRE FOUR STATES REGION THURSDAY AND AGAIN FRIDAY. HUMID AND UNSTABLE CONDITIONS...COMBINED WITH UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES...WILL KEEP A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE REGION. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND AND HAIL. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM SPOTTERS...MAY POSSIBLY BE NEEDED...MAINLY TONIGHT.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
1220 AM CDT THU JUN 12 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0828 PM 6 N LEWISVILLE AR WIND DAMAGE
06/10/03 LAFAYETTE *** 1 INJ ***
TREE DOWN ON CAR. REPORT
FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT
15ARZ050-051-059>061-OKZ077-121000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 300 AM CDT THU JUN 12 2003 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 524 FOR MCCURTAIN COUNTY OKLAHOMA EXPIRED AT 3 AM CDT... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 524 FOR SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS WILL BE EXTENDED UNTIL 5 AM CDT... A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST ACROSS NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...HAS EXITED MCCURTAIN COUNTY OKLAHOMA. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER...THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL COLLIDE WITH A STATIONARY BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY OVER SOUTHERN ARKANSAS. THE MERGER OF THESE SYSTEMS WILL CONTINUE THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE WATCH AREA ACROSS SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. THE ARKANSAS COUNTIES REMAINING IN THE WATCH...NOW EFFECTIVE UNTIL 5 AM...ARE LITTLE RIVER...HOWARD...SEVIER...HEMPSTEAD...AND NEVADA. WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH...AND HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS...ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. ALSO...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IN EXCESS OF TWO INCHES IS POSSIBLE.
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 144 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:28 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Motorists were stranded along Highway 299 between Emmit and Laneburg due to high water.
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, June 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: 5365195.