3 flash flood, 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 Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 15, 8:51 PM EST, 4 hours 29 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 951 PM EDT SUN JUN 15 2003 SCATTERED SHOWERS STILL POPPING UP OVER SRN FCST AREA. DONT THINK THAT THE FLOOD WATCH IN SERN FCST AREA WILL COME TO FRUITION AS THEY WERE NOT AS WORKED OVER WITH RAIN AS NRN CINCY METRO AREA WAS IN THE PAST 2 DAYS. HOWEVER...DUE TO A BIT MORE TERRAIN DOWN THERE AND THE THREAT OF SLOW MOVING HEAVY RAINERS...WILL NOT DROP FLOOD WATCH ON THE EVENING SHIFT. THUNDER IS NOT VERY APPARENT TONIGHT AND IVE DROPPED THE MENTION HERE AND JUST WENT WITH SHOWERS AS PTYPE TONIGHT AND EARLY TOMORROW. HAVE DROPPED TEMPERATURES JUST SLIGHTLY SRN GROUPS AS RAIN COOLED AIR WILL GIVE THEM A HEAD-START TONIGHT...AND HAVE INCREASED DEWPOINTS ALL BUT FAR NRN FCST AREA. WILL ADD PATCHY FOG TO CVG AREA DUE TO AMOUNT OF PRECIP THEY HAD TODAY. .ILN... IN...FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 6 AM MON INZ058>059-066-073>075-Z080. KY...FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 6 AM MON KYZ089>100. OH...FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 6 AM MON OHZ060-070-077>079-081>082-088. FRANKS
INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ026-034-035-042>046- 051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-151100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 515 AM EDT SUN JUN 15 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN INDIANA...NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF OHIO. .DAY ONE...TODAY A STATIONARY FRONT WILL REMAIN ALONG AND NEAR THE OHIO RIVER THROUGH TONIGHT. THIS FRONT WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SINCE THE ATMOSPHERE CONTINUES TO BE VERY MOIST... THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF DROPPING HEAVY RAIN. AS A RESULT...RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE OHIO RIVER. THE HEAVY RAINFALL...COMBINED WITH SATURATED SOILS...COULD CAUSE CREEKS...STREAMS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS TO FLOOD QUICKLY IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. PLEASE SEE CLEFFAILN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 110 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:22 UTC.
3 flash flood, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong thunderstorms with heavy rain caused flooding of roadways east of Rexville in Ripley County during the early morning.
Several roads were closed by high water.
Numerous roads were flooded and closed across the eastern part of the county.
State Route 101 was underwater near town, with several other roads in town closed by high water. The Union County Public Library and Edwards Memorial United Methodist Church both sustained basement flooding.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Indiana in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, 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: 5361748, 5361701, 5361702, 5361747.