1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 30, 8:00 PM EST, 4 hours earlier.
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 900 PM EDT MON JUN 30 2003 SCATTERED STORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA ALONG OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES AND THEN MOVE NORTHWEST. THESE SHOULD BE WINDING DOWN OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS WITH SKIES GRADUALLY CLEARING OVERNIGHT. WILL WAIT FOR STORMS TO DISSIPATE BEFORE UPDATING ZONES TO REMOVE POPS FOR TONIGHT. OTHERWISE...NO OTHER CHANGES PLANNED. WINDS OVER COASTAL WATERS GENERALLY OUT OF THE SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST AT 10 KNOTS. LATEST RUC INDICATES WINDS BECOMING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 KNOTS OVERNIGHT AND WILL THEREFORE DROP SCEC ON EVENING UPDATE. REMAINDER OF MARINE FORECAST LOOKS ON TRACK AND NO OTHER MAJOR CHANGES ANTICIPATED. LOOKING LIKE TPA WILL END UP WITH THE 6TH WETTEST JUNE SINCE RECORDS BEGAN IN 1891 AND FMY WITH THE 10TH WETTEST SINCE RECORDS BEGAN IN 1931. HOWEVER...STILL A FEW SHOWERS AND STORMS AROUND TAMPA BAY AREA AND WOULDNT TAKE MUCH MORE THAN HALF OF AN INCH AT TPA TO MOVE INTO 3RD PLACE. FOR THE EXACT NUMBERS CHECK STATEMENT AT THE TOP OF THE CLIMATE PAGE IN THE CLIMATE TIDBITS SECTION ENTITLED JUNE 2003 - ONE OF THE WETTEST ON RECORD. .TBW...NONE. PRC
FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-301400- WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL FL 600 AM EDT MON JUN 30 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY: A WARM...MOIST...AND UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT REMAINS OVER THE AREA TO GENERATE POTENTIALLY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. DEEP SOUTHEAST FLOW OVER THE AREA WILL KEEP THE WEST COAST SEA BREEZE PINNED NEAR THE COAST DURING AFTERNOON HEATING. STRONGER STORMS MAY FORM ON LATE DAY BOUNDARY COLLISIONS PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS... DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY: THE BERMUDA HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE WILL REMAIN ESTABLISHED OVER THE FLORIDA PENINSULA FOR SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT EACH DAY. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION, CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TBW RD
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
823 PM EDT MON JUN 30 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0705 PM 6 N VERNA FL NON SVR WIND DAMAGE
06/30/03 MANATEE HOUSE UNDER CONSTRUCTION
WAS BLOWN DOWN. REPORTED BY
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
0729 PM BEVERLY HILLS FL 45 MPH NON SVR TSTM GUST
06/30/03 CITRUS ESTIMATED WIND SPEED. TWO
INCHES OF RAIN IN ONE HOUR.
REPORTED BY TRAINED SKYWARN
SPOTTER.
0735 PM 2 E RUSKIN FL 48 MPH NON SVR TSTM GUST
06/30/03 HILLSBOROUGH ALSO RECEIVED 2.52 INCHES
OF RAIN IN ONE HOUR.
REPORTED AT NWS OFFICE.
NOAHThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Horse Creek near Arcadia was in flood from June 22nd until July 1 with a crest of 19.71 fee on June 22nd. Flood stage is 12 feet.
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, 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: 5366802.