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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 31, 12:00 PM EST, 5 hours 58 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 100 PM EDT SUN AUG 31 2003 .OVERVIEW...TROPICAL STORM GRACE HAS BEEN DOWNGRADED TO A DEPRESSION LATE THIS MORNING...AS IT CONTINUES TO MOVE NORTHWESTWARD TOWARDS THE TEXAS COAST. SEE THE LATEST NHC ADVISORIES ON TROPICAL DEPRESSION GRACE FOR DETAILED INFORMATION. OVER THE CWA...LATEST WV ANALYSIS SHOWS MID AND UPPER LEVEL DRY AIR CONTINUING TO STREAM INTO THE CWA FROM THE EAST...WITH A FEW SEA BREEZE SHOWERS BEGINNING TO DEVELOP...BUT ALSO DISSIPATING QUICKLY WITHIN ONE HALF HOUR FROM DEVELOPING. WITH THE DRIER AIR CONTINUING TO WORK IN...COMBINED WITH THE STRONG SE FLOW...EXPECT THIS TREND TO CONTINUE WITH MOST OF THE ISOLATED SHOWERS AND STORMS THAT FORM TODAY TO BE ON THE BRIEF AND LIGHT SIDE. OVER THE COASTAL WATERS...WINDS AND SEAS CONTINUE ELEVATED THIS AFTERNOON DUE TO THE PRESSURE GRADIENT BETWEEN GRACE AND THE RIDGE TO THE EAST. .SHORT TERM...DRY MID AND UPPER LEVEL AIR ASSOCIATED WITH THE UPPER RIDGE OFF OF THE SE COAST WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD OVER THE REGION ON MONDAY...KEEPING POPS LOW AND MAX TEMPS ABOVE CLIMO VALUES. ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY...INCREASING MOISTURE FROM A WESTWARD MOVING TUTT LOW NOW ENTERING THE BAHAMAS...WILL GRADUALLY INCREASE POPS ACROSS THE REGION FROM EAST TO WEST. WITH ITS LACK OF ORGANIZATION AND SOMEWHAT LIMITED MOISTURE COMPARED TO THE LAST TROPICAL WAVE WHICH MOVED THROUGH HOWEVER...A MAXIMUM OF 40 PERCENT POPS SHOULD BE MORE THAN SUFFICIENT FOR THESE TWO DAYS. .MARINE...AS TD GRACE MOVES FURTHER AWAY AND THE PRESSURE GRADIENT CONTINUES TO WEAKEN...WINDS AND SEAS WILL SLOWLY SUBSIDE TONIGHT AND MONDAY...AND REMAIN LIGHT WELL INTO THE UPCOMING WEEK. .FIRE WX...NO CONCERNS...ALTHOUGH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL BE SOMEWHAT LOWER ON MONDAY AFTERNOON. .EXTENDED...THE MAIN QUESTIONS FOR LATE NEXT WEEK INTO NEXT WEEKEND REMAIN HOW AMPLIFIED WILL THE EASTERN UPPER TROF BECOME...AND WILL IT ALLOW THE COLD FRONT TO PASS THROUGH THE CWA. THE LATEST EXTENDED GFS RUN HAS NOW COMPROMISED BETWEEN THE PREVIOUS 2 DAYS...WITH THE FRONT POSSIBLY MAKING IT INTO THE COASTAL WATERS...WITH SOME DRIER AIR BEHIND IT. GIVEN THE UNCERTAINTY OVER THE PAST SEVERAL RUNS... STILL WILL TAKE A MIDDLE OF THE ROAD APPROACH AND NOT JUMP ON A CLEAR CUT SOLUTION UNTIL SOME MORE RUN TO RUN CONSISTENCY IS ACHIEVED. ALSO...ALTHOUGH HURRICANE FABIAN IS EXPECTED TO RECURVE OUT TO SEA WELL BEFORE REACHING THE EASTERN SEABOARD...IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE IF IT HAS ANY EFFECT ON WEAKENING THE UPPER TROF...POSSIBLY SLOWING DOWN THE W-E PROGRESSION OF THE UPPER PATTERN. .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... TLH 72 93 72 92 / 10 20 10 40 PFN 75 92 75 91 / 10 20 10 30 DHN 73 92 72 92 / 10 20 10 30 ABY 72 93 71 91 / 10 20 10 40 VLD 72 93 71 91 / 10 20 10 40 CTY 72 92 71 90 / 10 20 10 40 .TLH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...NONE. GA...NONE. FL...NONE. GOULD
GMZ750-755-770-775-ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-GAZ120>131- 142>148-155>161-010930- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 530 AM EDT SUN AUG 31 2003 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...THE FLORIDA BIG BEND AND EASTERN PANHANDLE...AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE... ONLY ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY...MAINLY IMPACTING FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND SOUTHEAST ALABAMA COUNTIES. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT FORECAST. THE PRESSURE GRADIENT BETWEEN THE TROPICAL WAVE IN THE CARIBBEAN AND THE BERMUDA HIGH WILL CAUSE WINDS TO BE STRONG AND GUSTY AT TIMES OVER GULF WATERS CAUSING HIGH SEAS AND SURF CONDITIONS. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. AS TROPICAL STORM GRACE MOVES FARTHER NORTHWEST AND FARTHER AWAY FROM THE COASTAL WATERS...THE PRESSURE GRADIENT AND MARINE WINDS WILL WEAKEN. SEAS SHOULD START TO SUBSIDE LATER TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... DRIER CONDITIONS FOR MONDAY ARE EXPECTED...WITH ONLY ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FORECAST. RETURN TO NORMAL AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BY MID WEEK. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED TODAY...AND SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE REQUIRED. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE VIA OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TLH/ OR LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATIONS. 16-DYE
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A Lowndes County teen was struck by lightning while outside his home. Three days later, he died of cardiac failure at Shands Hospital in Gainesville. Reported by the Valdosta Daily Times.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightning, Lowndes | 2003-08-31 | 15 | Male | Outside/Open Areas | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Georgia in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, August 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: 5377927.