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 Miami, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 8, 8:45 AM EST, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.
SOUTH FLORIDA AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI 945 AM EDT FRI AUG 08 2003 CONDITIONS ACROSS SOUTH FLORIDA FAIRLY SIMILAR TO THURSDAYS ...HOWEVER CONVECTIVE PARAMETERS FROM KMFL MORNING SOUNDING JUST A BIT LESS FOREBODING. REGARDLESS...NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL DEVELOP AND SPREAD ACROSS SOUTH FLORIDA THIS AFTERNOON. LOTS OF ACTIVITY ALREADY MOVING ONSHORE WEST COAST...AS HAS BEEN THE CASE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS...WILL CONTINUE TO PROPAGATE NORTHEAST. WITH SOUTHWEST STEERING FLOW IN PLACE...LATE DAY STRONG STORMS WILL BE ENHANCED WHEN INTERACTING WITH EAST COAST SEABREEZE AS WELL AS ANY OUTFLOWS FROM OTHER STORMS. WILL NEED TO WATCH CLOSELY. ZONE AND MARINE FORECASTS LOOK GOOD. NO UPDATES REQUIRED AT THIS TIME. .MIA...NONE.
FLZ063-066>075-081600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 500 AM EDT FRI AUG 8 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY ...NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS INTERIOR AND EAST COAST THIS AFTERNOON... ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WEST COAST... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS ALL OF SOUTH FLORIDA TODAY. THE MOST FAVORED AREAS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE OVER THE INTERIOR PORTIONS OF THE PENINSULA DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS...THEN ALONG THE EAST COAST METRO AREAS BY MID TO LATE AFTERNOON. OVER THE WESTERN COLLIER METRO AREA...STORMS SHOULD BE FEWER IN NUMBER...AND OCCUR MAINLY IN THE LATE MORNING TO EARLY AFTERNOON TIME FRAME. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG ESPECIALLY ALONG THE EAST COAST. THE THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES ALONG WITH WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH. IN ADDITION...LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINS ARE POSSIBLE RESULTING IN A FEW SPOTS WITH SOME URBAN STREET FLOODING. NO OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND DETAILED GRAPHICS CAN BE FOUND ON THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEB SITE AT MIAMIWEATHER.INFO. FOR INFORMATION IN SPANISH, VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT ELTIEMPOENMIAMI.INFO. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. STAYED TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
The Office of Emergency Management reported several funnel clouds.
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: 5334956.