Heavy Rain, Wayne
- When
- June 15, 7:00 AM EST to June 22, 7:00 AM EST
- Where
- Wayne County, Jesup
- Crop damage
- $3,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 31.551, -81.917 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Rain in Georgia, June 15 to 22, 2003
Wayne County Recreation Director reported that heavy rains over the past week washed away hydroseed on a new Bill Morris park lake.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- $3,000
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS JAX wrote it up.
Wayne County Recreation Director reported that heavy rains over the past week washed away hydroseed on a new Bill Morris park lake.
What forecasters said that day
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 Jun 15, 12:40 AM EST, 6 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 12:40 AM EST, 6 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 140 AM EDT SUN JUN 15 2003 PUBLIC...AS EVIDENCED ON GOES WV AND 12Z GFS ENSEMBLE DRIER AIR WL CONT TO DRIFT NWWD INTO CWA...THUS MAJOR TWEAK IN FCST PACKAGE WL BE TO TWEAK DOWN POPS 10-20% IN TODAYS FORECAST...WHILE MON/TUE POPS WL REMAIN CLOSE TO THE SAME VALUES IN FCST. TEMPS WL BE QUITE WARM TODAY WITH HIGHS IN THE LOWER TO MID 90S INLD AND HEAT INDICES REACHING THE LOWER 100S. 00Z GFS RUN BRINGS BLOB OF MOISTURE FM WRN CARIB AND MERGES IT WITH A FRNT OVER THE ERN GULF ON WED AND BRINGS NWD ACRS FA PSBLY ON THU. WL NEED TO MONITOR AND WL LET DAY SHIFT MAKE ANY MAJOR CHGS TO EXTENDED GRAPHICS. MARINE...NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES EXPECTED TO PREVIOUS FORECAST WITH SOUTH/SOUTHEAST FLOW FIRMLY IN PLACE. UNCERTAINTY INCREASES LATER IN FORECAST WITH AFOREMENTIONED TROPICAL SLUG OF MOISTURE BUT WILL NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES ATTM. FIRE WX...NO CONCERNS. .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... AMG 93 73 92 73 90 / 30 10 40 20 30 SSI 89 76 88 76 87 / 20 10 30 20 30 JAX 92 73 91 72 89 / 20 10 30 20 40 SGJ 89 74 89 74 89 / 20 10 30 20 40 GNV 93 72 92 71 90 / 30 10 40 20 50 OCF 93 72 92 71 90 / 30 10 40 20 50 .JAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...NONE. GA...NONE. HESS/CAMP
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 4:30 AM EST, 2 hours 30 minutes before
FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-151600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 530 AM EDT SUN JUN 15 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... ...A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT AREA BEACHES TODAY... A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS EXISTS AT AREA BEACHES TODAY. PLEASE REFER TO THE SURF ZONE FORECAST MORE MORE DETAILS. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA AND CONTINUE INTO THIS EVENING. THE GREATEST COVERAGE OF STORMS SHOULD BE ACROSS INLAND SECTIONS OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...MAINLY IN AREAS WEST OF INTERSTATE 95 AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 75. THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE DANGEROUS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING...HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. RAIN WILL BE HEAVY AT TIMES...CAUSING PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND POSSIBLE FLOODING OF LOW LYING OR POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG WITH WINDS GUSTS OF 45 TO 55 MPH...SMALL HAIL AND EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING. ONE OR TWO STORMS MAY ALSO BECOME SEVERE WITH WIND GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE AND LARGE HAIL. NO OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE PERIOD. THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR DEEP MOISTURE TO MOVE NORTH OUT OF THE TROPICS AND IMPACT THE FORECAST AREA WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM LATE TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. NO OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAX. HESS
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Heavy Rain
- Rainfall totals unusual for the place and season that did not produce a flood.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Ohio, June 15, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Mississippi, June 15, 2003
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, June 15, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Indiana, June 15, 2003
- Flash Flood in Alabama, June 15, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Louisiana, June 15, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, June 15 to 16, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, June 15, 2003
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 15, 2003
- Wildfire in California, June 15 to 16, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, June 15, 2003
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds and Waterspout in Gulf of Mexico, June 15, 2003
More
Every storm in Georgia in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, June 2003
Sources
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: 5374958.