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 9, 7:45 AM EST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 845 AM EDT MON JUN 9 2003 FOR THE MORNING UPDATE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ALONG THE COASTAL COUNTIES NORTH OF BRADENTON IN REGION OF BEST L/L CONVERGENCE AND INSTABILITY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH INLAND THROUGH THE MORNING...WITH ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING FROM SARASOTA SOUTH TO FORT MYERS THIS AFTERNOON. SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL MOVE OVER THE INTERIOR THIS AFTERNOON...WITH SCATTERED ACTIVITY REDEVELOPING ALONG THE COASTAL COUNTIES THROUGH THE DAY. ATMOSPHERE QUITE SATURATED WITH MORNING TBW SOUNDING SHOWING 2.06 PCPW. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE TODAY ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION...MAINLY SOUTH OF CRYSTAL RIVER. WILL UPDATE ZONES NORTH OF TAMPA TO INCREASE POPS. .TBW...NONE. OGLESBY
FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-091530- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 532 AM EDT MON JUN 9 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY: PLENTIFUL MOISTURE AND A WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL CAUSE THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT THE DAY. THE BEST CHANCE FOR HEAVY RAIN WILL BE EAST AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM ROUGHLY HAINES CITY TO MYAKKA CITY TO BONITA SPRINGS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH ARE ALSO EXPECTED WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS. HEAVY RAINS MAY CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AND LOW LYING AREAS. SMALL STREAMS MAY BRIEFLY EXCEED BANK FULL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY: AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEK WITH NORMAL SUMMER CONDITIONS. AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OR 2 IS POSSIBLE EACH AFTERNOON. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED EACH AFTERNOON. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION, CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TBW
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A lightning strike near Airside A of the Tampa International Airport lead to one minor injury as an employee fell backwards and struck his head.
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: 5364706.