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 Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 30, 2:00 PM CST, 10 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 200 PM CST SUN NOV 30 2003 .SHORT TERM... BIGGEST NEAR TERM CHALLENGE IS THE TUE NIGHT/WED OR PERHAPS NOW THE WED/WED NIGHT PCPN CHANCE. JUDGING BY RUN-RUN CONSISTENCY...ONE WOULD TEND TO FAVOR THE SLOWER ETA...WHICH DELAYS ANY MENTION OF PCPN...AND EVEN THEN ONLY A SMALL ONE...TIL WED. THAT IS BECAUSE EACH OF THE PREVIOUS SEVERAL RUNS HAS TRENDED SLOWER...THIS RUN TOO. THE GFS SEEMS TO BE LEVELING OFF...IS MORE AGGRESSIVE W/THE WARM SECTOR PCPN CHC...BUT IT TOO IS SUGGESTIVE OF A SMALL CHC POP AT BEST. THEREFORE DECIDED TO GO WITH THE FLOW...SLOWER BEING BETTER...AND STICK WITH THE GOING WED CHC PCPN. SO WHY NOT BLEED INTO WED NIGHT THEN? BECAUSE THIS PCPN CHC IS SHOWING UP ONLY ON GFS AND IS SMALL CHC AT BEST. PREFER TO WAIT AND SEE IF ANY OTHER SIGNALS SUPPORT CONTINUATION OF CHC INTO WED NIGHT. SO ALL THAT SAID...PRETTY MUCH STICKING WITH THE GOING FORECAST. THAT MEANS SMALL CHC R-S- NORTH...R- SOUTH...PRIMARILY WED. OTHER THAN THAT THERE IS A DRY FROPA LATER TONIGHT W/ONLY MID-HIGH CLOUDS EXPECTED. TEMPS HAVE BEEN TRENDING COOLER FROM RUN TO RUN AND THIS RUN IS NO EXCEPTION. WITH THIS COOLER TREND WE PREFER MAV MOS...AND GIVEN ALL MODELS ARE KEEPING A LOWER TROPOSPHERIC NE-ELY FLOW...WE BELIEVE THE COOLER TEMPS...PARTICULARLY MAV HIGHS...ARE MORE LIKELY. .LONG TERM... ANOTHER SYSTEM IS PROGGED TO SKIP PAST THE FA ON FRI/DAY5... ACCORDING TO THE GFS MODEL. THE 00Z VERSION HAS THE SYSTEM AS A VIGOROUS CLOSED MID LEVEL LOW MOVING THRU THE MID OHIO VALLEY LATE FRI/SAT NITE. 12Z GFS INDICATED THE LOW TO BE FURTHER EAST/EARLIER AND THEREFORE NOT AS MUCH OF A FACTOR FOR THE FA. MEANWHILE...THE 00Z ECMWF/12Z UKMET MODELS ALSO SHOW THE SYSTEM AS A SIGNIFICANT LOW BUT IT ROCKETS OFF TOWARD NEW ENGLAND...WITH THE UKMET BEING THE FASTEST. THE CANADIAN SEEMS TO EVENTUALLY PHASE THE WED SYSTEM WITH THE FRI SYSTEM AS ONE LARGE TROF OVER THE ERN SEABOARD BY FRI. WITH ALL THE CHAOS...DECIDED TO KEEP THE CURRENT EXTENDED GOING WITH A GENERAL COOLER TREND IN TEMPS TO REFLECT SOME COOLER AIR COMING IN BEHIND WHATEVER SYSTEM IT HAPPENS TO TURN OUT TO BE...WITH MASS FIELDS A LESS AMPLIFIED VERSION OF THE 00Z GFS AND SLIGHTLY FASTER TIMING. THUS...NO PCPN MENTIONED DAYS 5-7. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. MO...NONE. IL...NONE. IN...NONE. &&
ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-100- 107>112-114-011100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 450 AM CST SUN NOV 30 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...AND WESTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF LIGHT SNOW AND RAIN TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. THE SNOW WILL BE MAINLY NORTH AND WEST OF THE OHIO RIVER...INCLUDING THE HILLY TERRAIN OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. MINOR ACCUMULATIONS LESS THAN AN INCH ARE POSSIBLE...MAINLY ON GRASSY AREAS AND BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. YORK
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Ohio River remained above flood stage at Shawneetown from late November into early December. Minor flooding occurred, with some low-lying fields and flood plains underwater. The river crested several feet above flood stage on November 28 and fell slowly during early December.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Illinois in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Illinois, December 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: 5336662.