1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 8, 1:26 PM CST, 4 hours 54 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 226 PM CDT TUE JUL 8 2003 AFTERNOON CONVECTION DEVELOPING AS EXPECTED. MUCH THE SAME EXPECTED WEDNESDAY...THEN A BIT OF A PATTERN CHANGE THURSDAY WITH FRONT MOVING INTO THE AREA. TAPERING OFF POPS SOUTH AND WEST THURSDAY... BUT MAINTAINING 30 PERCENT CHANCES NORTH AND EAST. SLIGHT CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING SUMMERTIME ACTIVITY FRIDAY...THEN POTENTIAL MCS SATURDAY WILL BOOST CONVECTION POTENTIAL BACK TO CHANCE CATEGORY. ROUNDING OUT THE SEVEN DAYS WILL BE SLIGHT CHANCES OF AFTN AND EVE CONVECTION. TROPICAL SYSTEM IN EAST CARIBBEAN WILL BE WORTHY OF MONITORING HOWEVER. 17 .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SHV 74 91 74 92 / 30 40 20 20 MLU 73 91 74 91 / 30 40 20 30 TXK 74 93 74 91 / 30 30 20 30 TYR 74 91 74 93 / 30 40 20 20 LFK 73 91 73 92 / 30 50 20 20 .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>167-091100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1200 PM CDT TUE JUL 8 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS OR LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM SPOTTERS...IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT.
LAZ001-002-TXZ112-126-138-090100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 714 PM CDT TUE JUL 8 2003 AT 710 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING ALONG THE SEA BREEZE FRONT JUST SOUTH AND WEST OF SHREVEPORT LOUISIANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP...AND MOVE NORTH...OVER THE SHREVEPORT AREA THROUGH 8 PM. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL OCCUR IN THE STRONGER STORMS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP...AND MOVE NORTH...OVER WASKOM TEXAS...AND RURAL PARTS OF MARION AND CASS COUNTIES IN TEXAS... THROUGH 8 PM.
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 15 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:18 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck the National Weather Service Office and Dopplar Radar which fried the Radar comms circuit boards. One operations area AWIPS HP consoles power supply was destroyed and one of the office security cameras was destroyed.
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: 5366806.