1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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 Aug 31, 7:46 PM EST, 4 hours 14 minutes earlier.
WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL 846 PM EDT SUN AUG 31 2003 CURRENTLY...MORE SHOWER COVERAGE TODAY THAN EXPECTED...BUT ACTIVITY IS PRETTY MUCH GONE OVER LAND AREAS WHILE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER THE GULF WATERS. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS DRY AIR IN PLACE FOR NOW...BUT MORE MOISTURE ALREADY POISED OFF THE EAST COAST OF FLORIDA JUST EAST OF THE TUTT CELL. UPDATES...WILL REMOVE MENTION OF EVENING SHOWERS IN THE ZONES... OTHERWISE CURRENT FORECAST LOOKS ON TARGET. POPS COULD BE A TOUCH HIGHER THAN CURRENTLY ADVERTISED FOR MONDAY AS ACTUAL POPS SEEM TO BE RUNNING ABOVE GUIDANCE LATELY. MARINE...OFFSHORE WINDS HAVE COME DOWN BELOW 15 KNOTS IN THE NORTHERN WATERS BUT SHOWERS CONTINUE TO MOVE AT A GOOD CLIP TOWARDS THE WEST. EXPECT WINDS TO COME BACK UP TO NEAR 15 KNOTS WELL OFFSHORE OVERNIGHT. WILL KEEP SEAS AT 2-3 FEET NEAR SHORE AND 3-5 FEET WELL OFFSHORE AS IN PREVIOUS PACKAGE. NO HIGHLIGHTS EXPECTED THROUGH THE PERIOD. .TBW...NONE. JILLSON
FLZ039-042-043-048>052-055>057-060>062-065-311400- WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL FL 615 AM EDT SUN AUG 31 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY: AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE IN THE UPPER PORTIONS OF THE ATMOSPHERE WILL SPREAD DRY AIR ALOFT ACROSS THE STATE. THIS TRANSLATES TO VERY WARM AND HUMID CONDITIONS AND GENERALLY A DECREASE IN SHOWER AND ESPECIALLY THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. THE BIGGEST HAZARD TODAY WILL BE TEMPERATURES THAT MAY REACH LOW TO MID 90S IN A FEW LOCATIONS AND HIGH AFTERNOON HUMIDITIES COMBINING TO MAKE IT FEEL LIKE THE TEMPERATURE IS WELL OVER 100 DEGREES. THERE WILL BE A LITTLE MORE WIND THAT USUAL AND THAT SHOULD HELP... BUT IF YOU MUST EXERT YOURSELF OUTSIDE BE SURE TO DRINK PLENTY OF FLUIDS. THERE WILL BE BRIEF SHOWERS ESPECIALLY THIS AFTERNOON BUT FLOODING RAINS NOR SEVERE WEATHER ARE EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY: WE GET BACK TO A MORE TYPICAL SUMMER WEATHER PATTERN STARTING MONDAY WITH SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING THUNDERSTORMS. THE MAIN CONCERN WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS. SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY. SOBIEN
MARINE LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY AREA - RUSKIN FL
848 PM EDT SUN AUG 31 2003
TIME(EDT) .....MARINE SUBZONE.... GMZ ...EVENT/REMARKS...
......MARINE ZONE......
0608 PM SAN CARLOS-CAPTIVA 856 WATERSPOUT
08/31/03 BONITA BCH-ENGLWD 20NM 2 WATERSPOUTS REPORTED BY
SKYWARN SPOTTER 1 TO 2
MILES WEST OF CAPTIVA
ISLAND.1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Cypress Creek at Worthington Gardens went above flood stage on August 2nd, crested at 10.27 fee on August 13th, and fell below flood stage on September 21st. Flood stage is 8 feet.
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, September 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: 5368474.