10 hail, 2 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 May 6, 4:35 PM CST, 45 minutes earlier.
MESOSCALE FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA 535 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2003 AT 5PM THE DRY LINE EXTENDED FROM JUST NORTHWEST OF MIAMI TO 40 MILES WEST OF ARDMORE. A COLD FRONT WILL BEGIN TO MERGE INTO THE DRY LINE DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS AS THE DRY LINE SLOWS. DEEP LAYER SHEAR WILL REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR SUPERCELLS THROUGH 00Z...THEN THE SHEAR WILL BEGIN TO RELAX SOME AND THE SHEAR VECTORS WILL BACK...REDUCING THE ANGLE BETWEEN THE VECTORS AND THE BOUNDARY. ALL OF THIS WILL PROMOTE A MORE LINEAR CELL MODE AND REDUCED SUPERCELL THREAT LATER IN THE EVENING. UNTIL THAT TIME A TORNADO THREAT WILL CONTINUE WITH THE SUPERCELLS MOVING ACROSS NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND INTO NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. FORECAST ID= 08 .TSA... AR...NONE. OK...NONE.
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-071100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 100 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2003 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK ...SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS PORTIONS OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS... SURFACE LOW PRESSURE WAS LOCATED OVER NORTH-CENTRAL OKLAHOMA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON WITH A DRY LINE EXTENDING SOUTHWEST INTO SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA. THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP ALONG THE DRY LINE BY MID AFTERNOON ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA...RAPIDLY BECOMING SEVERE. SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED WITH HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS...DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS TO 70 MPH AND A FEW TORNADOES. THE GREATEST TORNADO THREAT THROUGH THIS EVENING WILL BE ACROSS FAR NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTH OF A BARTLESVILLE...FORT SMITH LINE. 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...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY AN ACTIVE SPRING WEATHER PATTERN WILL CONTINUE INTO THE WEEKEND AS A SERIES OF DISTURBANCES MOVES ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS AND A SURFACE BOUNDARY REMAINS OVER THE AREA. IT APPEARS THE BEST CHANCES OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL OCCUR WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...AND AGAIN ON SATURDAY. A MORE STABLE PATTERN MAY FINALLY TAKE OVER BY EARLY NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER / EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS UNTIL 700 PM. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD CONTINUE TO CLOSELY MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS...AS WARNINGS WILL LIKELY BE ISSUED LATER THIS AFTERNOON. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT... WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
0500 PM CDT TUE MAY 06 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0459 PM 3 N KETCHUM OK 1.00 IN HAIL
05/06/03 CRAIG
SPPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
0507 PM CDT TUE MAY 06 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0505 PM VINITA OK 1.00 IN HAIL
05/06/03 CRAIG
SPPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
0509 PM CDT TUE MAY 06 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0505 PM CLEORA OK 1.00 IN HAIL
05/06/03 DELAWARE
0505 PM BERNICE OK 1.00 IN HAIL
05/06/03 DELAWARE
SPPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
0525 PM CDT TUE MAY 06 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0521 PM 7 E VINITA OK 2.75 IN HAIL
05/06/03 CRAIG
SPPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
0539 PM CDT TUE MAY 06 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0514 PM LOCUST GROVE OK 0.75 IN HAIL
05/06/03 MAYES
0512 PM 2 S LOCUST GROVE OK 1.00 IN HAIL
05/06/03 MAYES
SPPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
0555 PM CDT TUE MAY 06 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0515 PM 4 S MIAMI OK 1.75 IN HAIL
05/06/03 OTTAWA
SPThe Tulsa radar (KINX), 93 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:20 UTC.
10 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down trees and a power pole.
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, 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: 5357526, 5357524, 5357525, 5357527, 5357528, 5357529, 5357530, 5357531, 5357532, 5357533, 5357534, 5357535.