1 funnel cloud, 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 Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 2, 8:30 AM EST, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 930 AM EDT SAT AUG 2 2003 12Z JAX SOUNDING CONTINUES TO SHOW VERY MOIST AIRMASS WITH PWAT AT 1.90. VERY LIGHT WINDS WILL RESULT IN SEABREEZE FRONTS FORMING AND MOVING INLAND WITH SLOW STORM MOTION. MAIN THREAT WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL DUE TO SLOW MOVEMENT...ALONG WITH THE USUAL FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS THIS TIME OF YEAR. FORECAST OF LIKELY POPS INLAND AND SCATTERED POPS NEAR COAST LOOK APPROPRIATE. VORTICITY MAX NEAR GA/SC BORDER BRINGING DRIER AIR ALOFT INTO W GA MAY ENHANCE STORMS OVER SE GA LATER TODAY. A VORTICITY LOBE AHEAD OF UPPER LOW NEAR BAHAMAS PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS OFF E COAST SHOULD LIFT OFF TO THE NORTHEAST. MARINE...SURFACE RIDGE AXIS NEAR FLAGLER BEACH AREA WILL RESULT IN LIGHT AND VARIABLE WINDS BECOMING MORE SE TODAY WITH SEABREEZE FORMATION. MZ/MT
FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-022130- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 1132 AM EDT SAT AUG 2 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... AFTERNOON SEABREEZES WILL COMBINE WITH A MOIST AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE TO RESULT IN SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS. THE STORMS IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA WILL MOVE SLOWLY NORTH OR NORTHEAST... WHILE STORMS IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA WILL HAVE A SLOW AND ERRATIC MOVEMENT. ALL STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLY IN EXCESS OF 2 INCHES IN SOME AREAS...AND POSSIBLE WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED EACH DAY MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAX. MKT
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
Funnel cloud confirmed by St. Johns Sheriff's Office.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Florida in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, 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: 5367515.