1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 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 Jun 16, 1:57 PM EST, 2 hours 48 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 257 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2003 .OVERVIEW...HIGHER THAN AVERAGE RAIN CHANCES FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. .SHORT TERM...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ALONG A SLOW-MOVING SEA BREEZE FRONT...JUST INLAND FROM THE COAST. THESE SHOULD SLOWLY PROPAGATE INLAND AND GRADUALLY DISSIPATE AFTER SUNSET. ALL OF THE MODELS FORECAST A LARGE REGION OF DEEP LAYER MOISTURE ACROSS OUR FORECAST AREA DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. THE 1000-700 MB MEAN FLOW WILL BE SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST AT 6 TO 10 KNOTS...WHICH WOULD YIELD HIGHER POPS ACROSS THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...AND RELATIVELY LOW POPS ACROSS SOUTH GEORGIA AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE FLORIDA BIG BEND. HOWEVER...WITH OCCASIONAL SHORTWAVES MOVING OVER THE REGION FROM THE SOUTHWEST AND VAST AMOUNTS OF MOISTURE...I HAVE CLOSELY FOLLOWED MOS POPS WHICH ARE ABOVE CLIMATOLOGY. .MARINE...LIGHT WINDS AND LOW SEAS WILL CONTINUE. .EXTENDED (FRIDAY-MONDAY)...THERE IS CONSIDERABLE UNCERTAINTY IN THIS EXTENDED PERIOD AS THE LATEST GFS IS QUITE DIFFERENT FROM ITS PREVIOUS RUN...AND BOTH GFS RUNS ARE A LOT DIFFERENT THAN THE ECMWF. I HAVE FOLLOWED HPC GUIDANCE WHICH TENDS TO FAVOR THE LATEST GFS IN OUR REGION. THIS MEANS ABOVE AVERAGE RAIN CHANCES WITH A FRONT NEAR THE AREA AND ABUNDANT DEEP LAYER MOISTURE. TEMPERATURES WILL BE NEAR AVERAGE. ON MONDAY I WENT MOSTLY WITH A CLIMATOLOGY FORECAST DUE TO THE CONSIDERABLE DIFFERENCES IN THE MODELS. .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... TLH 72 89 73 88 / 30 60 40 60 PFN 73 87 75 86 / 30 60 40 60 DHN 73 88 72 87 / 30 60 40 60 ABY 72 88 72 88 / 30 60 40 60 VLD 72 90 71 90 / 30 60 40 60 CTY 72 89 72 87 / 30 60 40 60 .TLH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...NONE. GA...NONE. FL...NONE. FOURNIER
GMZ750-755-770-775-ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-GAZ120>131- 142>148-155>161-181000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 555 AM EDT MON JUN 16 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...TODAY AND TONIGHT... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. THE COMBINATION OF A STALLED FRONT TO THE NORTH AND PASSING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL TRIGGER SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. WHILE THE OVERALL THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE LOW...AN ISOLATED STORM OR TWO MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR EACH DAY...MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE REQUIRED. .RIP CURRENTS... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THIS AFTERNOON ALONG THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND BIG BEND BEACHES. 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. 8-JAMSKI
FLZ017-018-027-034-162115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 444 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2003 AT 440 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER JEFFERSON...NORTH CENTRAL WAKULLA AND CENTRAL LEON COUNTIES MOVING NW AROUND 10 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PEA SIZED HAIL. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. THESE STORMS IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS. 24-BLOCK
FLZ027-162200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 515 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2003 AT 512 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL WAKULLA COUNTY NEAR CRAWFORDVILLE AND MOVING NW AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PEA SIZED HAIL. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS. 24-BLOCK
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Several trees down reported by the Lowndes County EMA.
Torrential rains from thunderstorms flooded several county roads and businesses. Reported by the Ben Hill County EMA.
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, June 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: 5364816, 5364815.