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 20, 8:30 AM EST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
0930 AM EDT FRI JUN 20 2003
CURRENTLY...CONVECTIVE CELLS TRAINING SW TO NE ACROSS CITRUS COUNTY
WITH VERY LITTLE NORTH TO SOUTH MOVEMENT OF THE AREA. A LARGE AREA
OF RAIN AND EMBD THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO IS APPROACHING
THE COAST...GENERALLY FROM SARASOTA COUNTY NORTHWARD TO PASCO COUNTY.
NOT PLANNING ANY UPDATES TO THE ZONES THIS AFTERNOON AS CURRENT
FORECAST OF 80 POPS LOOKS RIGHT ON TARGET. FLOODING PROBLEMS ALREADY
BEGINNING IN CITRUS COUNTY AND EXPECT TO SEE ADDITIONAL FLOODING
TODAY IN THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL COUNTIES OF THE FORECAST AREA. THE
FLOOD WATCH WILL LIKELY BE RE-ISSUED LATER TODAY TO EXTEND IT
THROUGH SATURDAY.
MARINE...NOT EXPECTING ANY PROBLEMS WITH WINDS OR SEAS...BUT DEEP
TROPICAL MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE...LEADING TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. A FEW OF THE STRONGER STORMS MAY HAVE BRIEFLY GUSTY
WINDS WITH LOCALLY ROUGH SEAS.
.TBW...FLOOD WATCH FOR THE COUNTIES OF CHARLOTTE...CITRUS...
HERNANDO...HILLSBOROUGH...LEVY...MANATEE...PASCO...
PINELLAS...SARASOTA...LEE...THROUGH TODAY.
EJFLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-201530- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL FL 623 AM EDT FRI JUN 20 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY: ...A FLOOD WATCH FOR COASTAL COUNTIES THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO TRAVERSE THE AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT...PROVIDING PERIODS OF RAIN WHICH MAY BE HEAVY AT TIMES. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALREADY MOVING ACROSS MANY OF THE COASTAL COUNTIES AND ARE EXPECTED INCREASE AND COVER ALL OF WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA BY LATE MORNING. THE GREATEST THREAT TODAY WILL BE FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS...WITH RAINFALL THAT COULD GENERALLY BE IN THE 2 TO 4 INCH RANGE. BUT LOCALLY...AMOUNTS COULD POSSIBLY BE AS HIGH AS 6 TO 10 INCHES. IN ADDITION...THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS ALSO POSE A THREAT WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIFE THREATENING LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY: THE MOIST TROPICAL AIR MASS WILL CONTINUE TO STREAM OVER THE AREA WITH THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN SATURDAY AND SOME FLOODING IS STILL POSSIBLE. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME SCATTERED SUNDAY. SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY WILL SEE A RETURN TO ISOLATED TO SCATTERED MAINLY AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. 09
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 170 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:57 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Numerous roads and homes were damaged in the Inglis and Yankeetown areas due to a flash flood. Rainfall totals for the day were 2.61 inches in Inglis and 2.35 inches in Williston. Further upstream of the Withlachoochee River the rainfall total was 4.65 inches near Dunnellon.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5364712.