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 24, 8:00 AM EST, 5 hours earlier.
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 900 AM EDT TUE JUN 24 2003 FOR THE MORNING UPDATE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PERSIST OFF THE WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COAST...WITH GENERALLY PARTLY SUNNY SKIES SOUTH OF TAMPA AND MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES NORTH OF TAMPA. DRY AIR ALOFT CONTINUES TO ADVECT OVER THE FORECAST AREA AS SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS DOWN FROM THE SOUTHEAST U.S. WITH THE ABUNDANT SURFACE MOISTURE AVAILABLE...STILL A SLIGHT CHANCE OF AN AFTERNOON SHOWER DEVELOPING ALL AREAS...WITH SCATTERED AFTERNOON SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST FLORIDA IN REGION OF DEEPER MOISTURE...BUT MOST AREAS WILL BE RAIN FREE TODAY FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MORE THAN A WEEK...GIVING THE REGION A CHANCE TO DRY OUT. CURRENT ZONES ARE ON TRACK WITH NO UPDATE PLANNED. .TBW...NONE. EO
FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-241300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 600 AM EDT TUE JUN 24 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY: ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON ALONG THE WEST COAST SEA BREEZE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL POSE A THREAT OF STRONG GUSTY WINDS UP TO 35 MPH...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY: SCATTERED MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EACH DAY AS MOISTURE GRADUALLY INCREASES ACROSS THE REGION OUT AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH THE SOUTHEAST UNITED STATES. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION, CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TBW PRC
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A RV Park in East Bonita Springs was evacuated as the area was inundated with four feet of water after heavy rains.
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: 5363891.