1 flash flood, 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 Jun 19, 1:18 PM EST, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
218 PM EDT THU JUN 19 2003
CURRENTLY...RADAR INDICATING CONTINUED WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS TRAINING FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO INTO THE NORTHERN
TWO-THIRDS OF THE FORECAST AREA. SHOWERS ARE ALSO BEGINNING TO
DEVELOP UPSTREAM FROM FMY.
SHORT TERM (TONIGHT-SAT)...MODELS CONTINUE TO INDICATE ABOVE NORMAL
POPS THROUGH SATURDAY. THE COMBINATION OF AN UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH...
DEEP SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW NORTH OF THE RIDGE...AND AMPLE TROPICAL
MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO FOCUS SCATTERED TO WIDESPREAD RAINFALL
ACROSS THE REGION. MODELS DISPLAY DAY-TO-DAY DIFFERENCES...BUT
OVERALL IDEA IS THE SAME. AVN PROBABLY A BIT TOO STRONG WITH
VORTICITY BULLS-EYES AND PREFERRED WEAKER ETA SOLUTION. WIDESPREAD
RAINS OVER THE NORTHERN ZONES TONIGHT WILL DRIFT SOUTHWARD INTO THE
CENTRAL ZONES. EXPECT ALL AREAS TO HAVE SCATTERED TO LIKELY COVERAGE
EACH AFTERNOON.
EXTENDED (SAT NIGHT-THU)...
LOOKS LIKE A DRYING TREND AT LEAST FOR THE NORTHERN FA BEGINNING SAT
NIGHT...BUT DEEP LAYER MOISTURE AND A WEAK SFC TROF SEEMS TO LINGER
OVER THE S FA THROUGH TUES. A WEAK DEEP LAYER RIDGE TRYIES TO
GRADUALLY BUILD BACK OVER AND TO THE NORTH OF THE FA...CREATING LOW
LEVEL ESE FLOW AND A RETURN TO MORE NORMAL SCT AFTN AND EVENING
CONVECTION...ESPECIALLY BY WED AND THURS. HAVE TRENDED POPS DOWNWARD
OVER THE N FA EARLY IN THE PERIOD...THEN CHC/SCT AFTN/EARLY EVENING
CONVECTION ALL AREAS WED AND THURS. MIN TEMPS SHOULD RETURN TO NEAR
NORMAL...ESPECIALLY MAXES...WHICH HAVE BEEN RUNNING BELOW NORMAL WITH
THE THICKER CLOUD COVER AND HIGHER CHANCES FOR RAIN.
MARINE...THUNDERSTORMS EMBEDDED IN WIDESPREAD AREAS OF RAIN COULD
GENERATE LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS AND ROUGH SEAS. OTHERWISE NO HAZARDS
EXPECTED.
FIRE WEATHER...NO HIGHLIGHTS.
PRELIMINARY NUMBERS:
BKV 073/086 073/086 9757
TPA 076/086 076/086 7757
GIF 074/087 074/087 5757
SRQ 076/086 076/086 5757
FMY 075/087 075/087 5757
.TBW...FLOOD WATCH FOR THE COUNTIES OF CHARLOTTE...CITRUS...
HERNANDO...HILLSBOROUGH...LEVY...MANATEE...PASCO...
PINELLAS...SARASOTA...LEE...THROUGH FRIDAY.
EJ/RFMFLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-191500- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL FL 605 AM EDT THU JUN 19 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY: ...A FLOOD WATCH FOR COASTAL COUNTIES TODAY AND TONIGHT... DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO TRAVERSE THE AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT...PROVIDING PERIODS OF RAIN WHICH MAY BE HEAVY AT TIMES AND ALSO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME NUMEROUS BY THE AFTERNOON HOURS. THUNDERSTORMS OFFSHORE BEFORE SUNRISE THIS MORNING WILL BE MOVING ACROSS COASTAL LOCATIONS THIS MORNING AMD OVER INLAND COUNTIES BY AFTERNOON...AND INCREASING IN AREAL COVERAGE. THE GREATEST THREAT TODAY WILL BE FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS...WITH RAINFALL THAT COULD LOCALLY BE AS HIGH AS 4 TO 5 INCHES. HOWEVER...THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS ALSO POSE A THREAT WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIFE THREATENING LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY: ...A FLOOD WATCH FOR COASTAL COUNTIES CONTINUES FRIDAY... THE MOIST TROPICAL AIR MASS WILL CONTINUE TO STREAM OVER THE AREA WITH THE THREAT OF FLOODING EXISTING INTO FRIDAY. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE FROM FRIDAY TO SATURDAY. SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY WILL SEE A RETURN TO SCATTERED MAINLY AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. 09
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Rain fall totals for the day were 4.80 inches at Pinellas Point and 4.05 inches in Largo. The saturated grounds finally gave way to the heavy rain leading to flooded roads and vehicles.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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