1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 31, 9:00 AM CST, 1 hour earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1000 AM CDT THU JUL 31 2003 BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ALONG ELEVATED THETA E AXIS THIS MORNING STRECHING FROM NEAR MLU SW TOWARDS UPPER TOLEDO BEND TO NEAR PALESTINE TX. LATEST RUC DATA SHOWS THIS BOUNDARY SHIFTING SLOWLY SOUTHWARD THIS AFTERNOON BUT ENOUGH INSTABILITY SHOULD HOLD IN PLACE TO GENERATE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE AID OF HEATING NEAR THE I-20 CORRIDOR. WILL KEEP POPS AS IS ALONG THE I-20 CORRIDOR FROM SHV INTO E TX BUT INCREASE POPS SLIGHTLY SOUTHEAST OF A LFK...MLU LINE. TEMPS APPEAR IN GOOD SHAPE...EXCEPT PERHAPS IN THE EAST AND SOUTHWEST WHERE CLOUD COVER MAY HAMPER HEATING THIS AFTERNOON. WILL AWAIT 1100 AM OBSERVATIONS BEFORE MAKING ANY CHANGES. 13 .SHV...NONE.
ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-311700- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 600 AM CDT THU JUL 31 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR OVER PARTS OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHEAST TEXAS...NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHWEST LOUISIANA TODAY AND TONIGHT. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS ALONG WITH DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL...OTHERWISE WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM SPOTTERS...WILL NOT BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
900 AM CDT THU JUL 31 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0315 PM HOPE AR WIND DAMAGE
07/30/03 HEMPSTEAD TREES UPROOTED. ROOF AND
CARPORT DAMAGE TO A FEW HOMES
ON THE NORTHEAST SIDE OF TOWN.
REPORTED BY LOCAL NEWSPAPER.The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 158 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:57 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck some Entergy equipment knocking out power to about 500 customers. The strike was in the 18th Street and Roselawn Avenue vicinity.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Louisiana in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Louisiana, July 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: 5365756.