1 lightning, 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 Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 10, 12:15 PM EST, 5 hours 30 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 115 PM EDT THU JUL 10 2003 CURRENTLY...AS EXPECTED...CU SLOW TO FORM AS SEEN ON VISIBLE PICS. STRANGELY...LOW LEVEL FLOW IS STILL ENE OVER THE N 1/2 OF THE FA... DESPITE MORNING SOUNDING SHOWING DEEP LAYER ESE FLOW. ISOLD SHOWERS HAVE BEEN FORMING OVER SE FL NEAR THE LAKE...AND HAVE BEEN SLOWLY INCREASING IN COVERAGE AS THEY MOVE NE. WEST COAST SEA BREEZE HAS BEGUN TO MOVE INLAND FROM TPA NORTH...BUT HANGS RIGHT AT THE COAST TPA SOUTH. --SHORT TERM-- DESPITE THE FACT THE ALL MODELS SHOW AN UPPER TROF MOVING ACROSS THE EAST AND SE U.S. FRI AND SAT...THE DEEP LAYER RIDGE AXIS SEEMS TO BARELY MOVE SOUTH...REMAINING OVER NCENT/CENT FL THROUGH THE PERIOD. WILL KEEP WEAK LOW LEVEL SE FLOW THROUGH FRI...BUT THEN BRING BACK MORE SW FLOW OVER THE FA BY SAT GIVEN A SHARPENING UPPER TROF OVER THE SE PORTION OF THE COUNTRY. MODEL POPS CONTINUE BELOW NORMAL... BUT SHOW SOME TREND UPWARD BY SAT. WILL CONTINUE SLIGHTLY ABOVE GUIDANCE WITH 30-40% FOR AFTN EVENING POPS. TEMPS WILL CONTINUE SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL GIVEN SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL POPS AND CLOUDS. --EXTENDED-- NOT MUCH CHANGE SEEN THROUGH THE EXTENDED PERIOD WITH SURFACE RIDGE REMAINING ACROSS AND JUST NORTH OF THE FORECAST AREA AND UPPER LEVEL RIDGE BUILDING IN FROM THE EAST. WILL SEE A GENERALLY LIGHT EAST TO SOUTHEAST FLOW WITH SCATTERED MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY AND NEAR NORMAL TEMPERATURES. --MARINE-- NO HIGHLIGHTS OR CONCERNS THROUGH TUES. WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR TRACK OF CLAUDETTE. CURRENT TRACK KEEPS THE STORM WELL WSW OF THE AREA THROUGH THE PERIOD. WELL BEYOND THE FCST PERIOD MAY NEED TO BE CONCERNED WITH A SWELL FROM THE SW IF THE STORM STALLS OVER THE WSW GULF. PRELIM #S: BKV 072/093 072/091 1324 TPA 078/091 077/090 1324 GIF 076/094 075/093 1324 SRQ 076/090 076/090 -224 FMY 076/093 075/092 1324= .TBW...NONE MORALES/PRC
FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-101400- WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 600 AM EDT THU JUL 10 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY: ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG A LATE AFTERNOON SEA BREEZE. SOME STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG NEAR INTERSECTING SEA BREEZE AND OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THUNDERSTORMS TODAY WILL BE DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. A FEW STORMS MAY HAVE WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 50 MPH LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY: SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING EACH AFTERNOON. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION, CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TBW
FLZ049-050-102330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 635 PM EDT THU JUL 10 2003 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT NORTHERN PINELLAS AND SOUTHERN PASCO COUNTIES THROUGH 730 PM EDT... A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH...WILL AFFECT PALM HARBOR...TARPON SPRINGS...HOLIDAY AND PORT RICHEY... UNTIL 730 PM EDT. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS EXPECTED. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...CROUCH DOWN IN A LOW SPOT...AWAY FROM TALL OBJECTS. TORRENTIAL RAINS WILL REDUCE VISIBILITY TO NEAR ZERO AT TIMES. MOTORISTS MAY WANT TO DELAY TRAVEL OR REDUCE SPEEDS. MCMICHAEL
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 40 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:45 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck a home on Ames Way and destroyed a power meter box while another strike on Tallahassee Drive put a hole in the roof of a home.
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: 5366681.