1 lightning, 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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 17, 10:35 AM CST, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1135 AM CDT TUE JUN 17 2003 UPDATED ZONES SENT OUT. ONLY MADE A FEW MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO TEMPERATURES AND WINDS. CAN STILL SEE LOW ROTATING ON RADAR AND VISIBLE SATELLITE OVER E TX. VISIBLE SHOWED AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM THE LOW WHICH HAS JUST RECENTLY IGNITED THUNDERSTORMS AS IT MOVES SEWD INTERACTING WITH LOW LEVEL MOISTURE/CLOUD COVER MOVING NWD FROM GULF. DID NOT CHANGE ANY POPS FOR THIS AFTERNOON. EXPECT ACTIVITY TO INCREASE DURING THE AFTERNOON JUST LIKE YESTERDAY. 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>167-181100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1200 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... AN UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL CONTINUE TO SPIN OVER EAST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON...AS THE GULF OF MEXICO CONTINUES TO SUPPLY THE AREA WITH ABUNDANT MOISTURE. DAYTIME HEATING...AND WEAK DISTURBANCES ROTATING AROUND THIS LOW...WILL ALLOW SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO MOVE ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD BE AT A MINIMUM WITH THESE STORMS...HOWEVER HEAVY RAIN WILL LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING IN SOME AREAS. IF SEVERE WEATHER OCCURS...IT WILL BE THIS AFTERNOON...AS HEATING WILL HELP TO DESTABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE. DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL LINGER ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA THROUGH WEDNESDAY...AS THE UPPER LEVEL LOW AND ASSOCIATED STATIONARY FRONTAL BOUNDARY REMAIN IN PLACE OVER THE AREA. THUS...LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT AS THE GROUND OVER MUCH OVER THE REGION IS NEAR SATURATION. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... DUE TO THE ISOLATED AND BRIEF NATURE OF ANY SEVERE WEATHER... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM SPOTTERS...SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. 20
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning caused a fire at the University Columns Apartments at NSU. There were no reports of injuries.
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, 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: 5365345.