1 funnel cloud, 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 New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 5, 1:15 PM CST, 2 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA 215 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2003 BROAD MID AND UPPER LEVEL TROUGH FORECAST TO REMAIN ANCHORED OVER MID U.S. THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH A WEAK SHORT WAVE AND ASSOCIATED TSTMS ROTATING THROUGH TROUGH POSITION BRINGING PRECIP CHANCE TO FORECAST NEARLY EACH DAY THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK. ALL MODELS KEYING ON WEAK LOW DEVELOPING ON SFC BOUNDARY OVER NW GULF THIS EVENING IN RESPONSE TO NEXT SHORT WAVE WITH WEAK LOW LIFTING NWD ACROSS SE LA LATE TONIGHT AND FRIDAY. SURGE OF MOISTURE SHOULD ACCOMPANY THE LOW PRES SYSTEM AND BOUNDARY AS IT MOVES NWD. THREAT OF SIGNIFICANT PCPN INCREASES LATER TONIGHT THROUGH FRI AS SLY FLOW STRENGHTENS AND CONVERGENCE ALONG BOUNDARY PROVIDES FOCUS FOR CONVECTION. PW SHOULD BE IN THE 2 INCH RANGE LATE TONIGHT AND FRIDAY PROVIDING AMPLE MOISTURE SUPPLY. AVN MAY BE SUFFERING FROM SOME FEEDBACK PROBLEMS WITH THIS WEATHER FEATURE. WILL MENTION HEAVY RAINFALL IN FORECAST TONIGHT AND FRIDAY...AND FLOOD WATCH MAY BE IN ORDER FOR LATE TONIGHT AND FRIDAY. WILL LET EVENING SHIFT TAKE A LOOK AT FLOOD WATCH ISSUE THIS EVENING. AS LOW LEVEL FLOW STENGTHENS LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY FRIDAY...SOME THREAT OF ORGANIZED SEVERE CONVECTION POSSIBLE ON FRIDAY...AND HAVE MENTIONED IN HWO. SHORT WAVE LIFTS TO NE AND WEAKENS LATE FRIDAY...SLIGHT DROP OFF IN DEEP MOISTURE EXPECTED BUT WITH SW FLOW CONTINUING IN LOW AND MID LEVELS..MOISTURE SUPPLY SHOULD MORE THAN SUFFECIENT FOR NEAR OR ABOVE NORMAL POPS THROUGH WEEKEND. SOME HINT OF WEAK HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING OVER SE LA AND S MS IN WAKE OF NEXT SHORT WAVE EARLY NEXT WEEK. THIS MAY ALLOW POPS TO BE NUDGED DOWN SLIGHTLY AS DRIER AIR MOVES INTO AREA TUE...BUT POPS SHOULD RETURN TO CLIMATOLOGY BY THU. OVER COASTAL WATERS...S AND SW FLOW SHOULD INCREASE TO THE 15 TO 20 KNOTS RANGE LATE TONIGHT AND FRI AS THE WEAK LOW MOVES ONSHORE. PRELIM NUMBERS MCB 69/83/70/86 6844 BTR 70/84/72/87 7845 MSY 75/84/75/86 8845 GPT 72/83/75/85 8845 .NEW...NONE LA...NONE. MS...NONE.
LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-061130- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1111 AM CDT THU JUN 5 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST AND COASTAL MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE COASTAL SECTIONS OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA THIS AFTERNOON AND SPREAD NORTHWARD ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL OF 1.5 TO 2.5 INCHES WITHIN A COUPLE HOURS TIME...PRODUCING LOCALLIZED STREETS FLOODING IN AREAS OF POOR DRAINAGE. IN ADDITION...THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY PERSIST OVERNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY FRIDAY...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNERSTORMS...PRIMARILY OVER SOUTH MISSISSIPPI AND THE INTERIOR SECTIONS OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA. THE GREATEST RISK WILL BE DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER SOUTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI AND PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA FROM FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL RANGE FROM ONE TO THREE INCHES WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS APPROACHING 4 INCHES IN THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. SCATTERED DAYTIME AND EARLY EVENING THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...IS NOT REQUESTED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS CONCERNING DEVELOPING WEATHER CONDITIONS THROUGH FRIDAY.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
A funnel cloud was observed between Dulac and Chauvin.
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: 5367067.