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 Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 23, 1:05 PM EST, 6 hours 18 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 205 PM EDT FRI MAY 23 2003 CURRENT...UPPER TROF EXTENDS FROM THE GREAT LAKES INTO THE E GOMEX...WITH LITTLE E-WARD PROGRESSION. DRY AIR ALOFT HAS FILTERED INTO THE NW HALF OF THE AREA PER H2O VAPOR LOOP. AT THE SFC... QUASI-STATIONARY FRONT EXTENDS FROM A WK LOW ALONG THE NC COAST TO NR SAUF1 TO ANOTHER WK LOW NR CDRF1...THEN INTO THE GOMEX. A BROKEN LINE OF SHOWERS AND TSTMS IS FIRING ALONG AND JUST AHEAD OF THIS BOUNDARY...WITH A PREFRONTAL BAND FARTHER S. CONSIDERABLE SC OVER GA ZONES...ALTHO FAIRLY OPEN CELLULAR IN NATURE. ALSO...BLOW-OFF FROM CBS OVER S PORTION OF AREA ADDING HIGH CLOUDINESS. PUBLIC...WILL KEEP EVENING TSTMS IN FCST FOR S ZONES IN THE 1ST PERIOD WITH SLT CHANCE OF SHRA THE REST OF THE NITE OVER EXTREME S. CLOUDS WILL BE SLOW TO DECREASE...BUT SHOULD GENERALLY SEE PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES BY SAT MORNING MOST AREAS. FRONT...ALBEIT WEAK...WILL LINGER OVER THE S PORTION OF THE CWA (COUNTY WARNING AREA) UNTIL MEMORIAL DAY WHEN IT LIFTS BACK N AHEAD OF NEXT SYSTEM. WILL NEED TO KEEP SLT CHANCE TO CHANCE OF AFTN AND EVENING POPS OVER THE AREA EACH DAY WITH THE HIGHEST CHANCES OVER E INTERIOR OF FL. EXTENDED...ONLY MINOR TWEAKS TO TEMPS AND POPS. NEXT FRONT APPROACHES MOVES SLOWLY ACROSS THE AREA TUE AND WED. HI PRES WILL REBUILD LATE IN THE WEEK. MARINE...NO HEADLINES. FIRE WX...NO CONCERNS. PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AMG 63 85 66 89 / 05 10 05 20 SSI 67 81 68 84 / 10 10 10 20 JAX 68 84 69 87 / 10 10 10 30 SGJ 71 83 72 84 / 20 10 10 20 GNV 67 88 67 90 / 20 20 10 20 OCF 68 88 68 91 / 30 20 10 20 JAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...NONE. GA...NONE. CARROLL/CAMP
FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-231600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 607 AM EDT FRI MAY 23 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... LOW PRESSURE OFFSHORE THE NE FLORIDA COAST WILL TRACK NORTHEAST TODAY DRAGGING A COLD FRONT THROUGH THE REGION. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED MAINLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 10 THIS MORNING AND FROM SOUTHEAST OF OCALA TO FLAGLER BEACH THIS AFTERNOON. SOME OF THE STORMS THIS AFTERNOON MAY BE STRONG AND ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... RESIDENTS ALONG RIVERS IN SOUTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST RIVER FORECASTS INTO NEXT WEEK FOR THE POTENTIAL OF RIVER FLOODING DUE TO HEAVY RAINS. NO OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAX. PP
FLZ033-240100- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 811 PM EDT FRI MAY 23 2003 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT CENTRAL SAINT JOHNS COUNTY THROUGH 850 PM... AT 811 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CENTERED 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF ELKTON...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF HASTINGS...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL ALSO AFFECT AREAS AROUND ELKTON...BAKERSVILLE...ST. AUGUSTINE SHORES AND ST. AUGUSTINE SOUTH. HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG WITH POSSIBLE MINOR DAMAGE. DEESE
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 70 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:21 UTC.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
Near County Road 305 and State Road 13. Numerous reports of a funnel cloud along the St. Johns River near Racy Point. One unconfirmed report of a touchdown; however, no damage reported.
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: 5354951.