1 funnel cloud, 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 Miami, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 16, 1:00 AM EST, 7 hours 43 minutes earlier.
SOUTH FLORIDA AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI 200 AM EDT FRI MAY 16 2003 TODAY AND THROUGH THE WEEKEND...NOT MUCH CHANGE IS EXPECTED. 00Z MFL SOUNDING SHOWED A PW OF ALMOST 1.7 AND A K-INDEX OF 26, INDICATING THAT WE ARE INDEED INTO THE RAINY SEASON IN SOUTH FLORIDA. SURFACE RIDGE AXIS WILL CONTINUE FROM THE ATLANTIC ACROSS SOUTH FLORIDA FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE. CHANCE CATEGORY OF MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST. STEERING FLOW IS WEAK, AS IS THE GRADIENT FLOW NEAR THE SURFACE, SO THE LOCATION AND AMOUNT OF THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE WILL DEPEND PRIMARILY ON HOW STRONG THE SEA BREEZE BOUNDARIES ARE, HOW FAR INLAND THEY EVENTUALLY MOVE, AND LOCAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES. FOR NOW WILL KEEP THE HIGHEST POPS OVER THE INTERIOR SECTIONS, WITH THE LOWEST POPS OVER THE IMMEDIATE GULF COAST. MARINE...LIGHT WINDS ARE EXPECTED ON THROUGH TUESDAY, WITH COASTAL SEA BREEZES DURING THE AFTERNOON. EXTENDED...SEE NO REASON TO CHANGE THE TREND OF THE FORECAST MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. SO WILL CONTINUE CHANGE CATEGORY POPS FOR DAYTIME, AND SLIGHT CHANCE AT NIGHT. NO FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS. PBI BB 090/075 089/075 089 46334 FLL BB 090/076 089/077 089 46323 MIA BB 090/076 089/077 089 46323 APF BB 090/074 090/075 090 46223 .MIA...NONE.
FLZ063-066>075-161500- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 520 AM EDT FRI MAY 16 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY ...SCATTERED AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF SOUTH FLORIDA... SEABREEZES WILL MOVE INLAND FROM THE COASTS THIS AFTERNOON AND HELP GENERATE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MOIST UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE OVER SOUTH FLORIDA. THE GREATEST THREAT FROM STORMS TODAY WILL BE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES. SLOW MOVEMENT OF SOME STORMS MAY LEAD TO RAIN ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES IN ISOLATED SITUATIONS. THIS AMOUNT OF RAINFALL COULD PRODUCE MINOR FLOODING IN STREETS AND OTHER LOW-LYING AREAS. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND DETAILED GRAPHICS CAN BE FOUND ON THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEB SITE AT MIAMIWEATHER.INFO. FOR INFORMATION IN SPANISH, VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT ELTIEMPOENMIAMI.INFO. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
The observer at Homestead Air Reserve Base sighted a funnel cloud.
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, May 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: 5350838.