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 Jun 19, 1:40 AM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 240 AM CDT THU JUN 19 2003 MAIN FORECAST CONCERN IS PRECIP CHANCES TODAY. 07Z SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWED A COLD FRONT EXTENDING FROM NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INTO CENTRAL INDIANA TO NEAR KSTL TO EAST CENTRAL KANSAS. LATEST IR SATELLITE SHOWED MAINLY MID LEVEL CLOUDS FROM THE CENTRAL PLAINS INTO THE GREAT LAKES REGION AND MIDDLE MISSISSIPPI AND OHIO RIVER VALLEYS. AVN/ETA/MESOETA ARE ALL IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH TIMING OF PRECIP/FRONTAL PASSAGE TODAY...WITH LATE MORNING INTO THE AFTERNOON FOR NORTHERN HALF OF THE PAH FORECAST AREA...AND AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING FOR SOUTHERN HALF. MODELS ALL HAVE THE AREA DRY BY AROUND 06Z FRIDAY. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD IN FOR THE WEEKEND...GIVING US SUNNY SKIES WITH DEW POINTS DROPPING 10 TO 12 DEGREES FOR FRIDAY...WITH A SLOW RECOVERY SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY. CURRENT FORECAST HAS NEXT CHANCE OF PRECIP LATE SUNDAY INTO MONDAY. LATEST AVN NOW SHOWS PRECIP REMAINING NORTH OF OUR REGION FOR THIS TIME PERIOD. ONLY HAVE A SLIGHT CHANCE IN CURRENT PACKAGE AND PREFER TO KEEP IT GOING FOR NOW. WILL WAIT AND SEE IF MODELS BECOME MORE CONSISTENT. GFS AND LATEST MEX POPS ALSO INDICATE WEDNESDAY CHANCES NOTHING TOO IMPRESSIVE...BUT AGAIN PREFER TO LEAVE LOW CHANCE POPS IN FOR NOW. MAV/FWC TEMPERATURES VALUES ARE PRETTY CLOSE AND ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH GOING PACKAGE. WILL MAKE MINOR IF ANY CHANGES. LATEST MEX TEMPS ALSO IN PRETTY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH GOING VALUES. .PAH...NONE. TREVINO
ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-100- 107>112-114-200845- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 400 AM CDT THU JUN 19 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA AND WESTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE..TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE ENTIRE QUAD STATE REGION TODAY INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH ACROSS THE AREA TODAY...WHICH MAY TRIGGER THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOME SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. AT THIS TIME...NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. RST
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Ohio River rose above flood stage at the Shawneetown river gage for several days. The river crested at 35.0 feet, two feet above flood stage. Minor flooding of bottomland fields occurred.
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, 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: 5359636.