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 Jun 19, 9:00 AM EST, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
1000 AM EDT THU JUN 19 2003
HEAVY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS CITRUS...HERNANDO...
AND PASCO COUNTIES WHERE A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT.
SATELITE AND RADAR SUGGEST PRECIPITATION WILL NOT END ANY TIME SOON.
EXPECT PRECIPITATION TO SAG SLOWLY SOUTHWARD...GETTING INTO
PINELLAS...HILLSBOROUGH...AND POSSIBLY MANATEE COUNTY BY THIS
AFTERNOON. IN ADDITION...WE WILL HAVE AFTERNOON HEATING TO CONTEND
WITH WHERE CLOUD COVER IS THINNER AND WILL ALLOW THUNDERSTORMS TO
DEVELOP. I AM ADJUSTING POPS ACCORDINGLY AND WILL BE ISSUING A ZONE
UPDATE TO REFLECT THE CHANGES.
MARINE: WINDS ACROSS MARINE ZONES ARE IN 10 TO 15 KNOT RANGE AND THAT
WILL BE REFLECTED IN NEXT PACKAGE.
.TBW...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CITRUS...HERNANDO...AND PASCO COUNTIES
THROUGH 2PM.
FLOOD WATCH FOR THE COUNTIES OF CHARLOTTE...CITRUS...
HERNANDO...HILLSBOROUGH...LEVY...MANATEE...PASCO...
PINELLAS...SARASOTA...LEE...THROUGH FRIDAY.
EJFLZ039-042-043-048>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 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
An eyewitness saw a lightning strike hit a palm tree and bounce into a home. The resulting fire heavily damaged one bedroom while the rest of the home received smoke damage. Two dogs in cages died of smoke inhalation.
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, June 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: 5364709.