5 flash flood, 1 hail, 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 Jackson, MS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 14, 5:30 PM CST, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...MESO UPDATE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 630 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2003 SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX TRACKING SOUTHEAST ACROSS SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS AND NORTHWEST LOUISIANA ALONG SURFACE BOUNDARY. UPPER NORTHWEST FLOW AND 850 THETAE RIDGE WILL TAKE IT INTO NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI THIS EVENING. SPC HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EXTREME SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS...NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI UNTIL MIDNIGHT. SO HAVE ADJUSTED ZONES. THE REST OF FORECAST APPEARS TO BE ON TRACK. .JAN... AR...FLOOD WATCH SE ZONES FOR TONIGHT. LA...FLOOD WATCH NE ZONES N OF INTERSTATE 20 TONIGHT. MS...FLOOD WATCH CENTRAL/NRN ZONES N OF INTERSTATE 20 TONIGHT. 17
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074- 151200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 737 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... ...THUNDERSTORMS... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY MORNING THURSDAY AS A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVE EAST SOUTHEAST ALONG A RETREATING WARM FRONT. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED MAINLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM LAKE VILLAGE ARKANSAS TO KOSCIUSKO MISSISSIPPI...WITH A SLIGHTLY HIGHER PROBABILITY BETWEEN I-20 AND HIGHWAY 84. THE MAIN CONCERN WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WIND TO 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS. ALL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO BE EAST OF THE REGION BY SUNRISE. THE WARM FRONT IS EXPECT TO LIFT NORTH OF THE AREA ON THURSDAY WITH ONLY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE. NO SEVERE STORMS ARE EXPECTED AS AN UPPER RIDGE WILL BEGIN BUILDING IN...SUPPRESSING ANY SEVERE STORMS. ...FLOODING... FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE TONIGHT...MAINLY NORTH OF I-20...AS A LARGE THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX MOVES OVER THE REGION. INDIVIDUAL STORMS MAY REPEATEDLY TRACK OVER THE SAME AREAS...RESULTING IN LOCALIZED FLOODING. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES WILL BE LIKELY IN THESE AREAS...HOWEVER ISOLATED AMOUNTS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES MAY BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... ...DAYS TWO AND THREE... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ONCE AGAIN ENTER THE PICTURE FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND LAST THROUGH SATURDAY...AS POTENT UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES THROUGH THE REGION. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER RISKS WILL CONTINUE TO BE HAIL GREATER THAN THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH...AND WIND GUSTS HIGHER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR. STAY INFORMED TO UPDATED FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS REGARDING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SYSTEM. ...DAYS FOUR THROUGH SEVEN... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE ONGOING EARLY SUNDAY MORNING...MAINLY OVER THE SOUTHEAST AREAS...AS A COLD FRONT PUSHES THROUGH. THE FRONT IS EXPECTED TO BE EAST OF THE REGION BY SUNDAY AFTERNOON...RESULTING IN A LOW RISK FOR HAZARDOUS WEATHER THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS...WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAN. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
723 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0715 PM 8 N FAYETTE MS 0.75 INCH HAIL
05/14/03 JEFFERSON REPORTED BY JEFFERSON
COUNTY EMA.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
757 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0713 PM LORMAN MS 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/14/03 JEFFERSON REPORTED BY JEFFERSON
COUNTY EMA.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
833 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0828 PM 3 E FAIR OAK SPRINGS MS 0.75 INCH HAIL
05/14/03 LINCOLN REPORTED BY LINCOLN
COUNTY EMA.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
5 flash flood, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rains caused a few homes to flood and numerous streets to flood.
Heavy rains caused several secondary roads to flood.
Heavy rains caused up to 8 inches of water to cover a portion of Highway 65.
Heavy rains caused water to cover a portion of Highway 132.
Heavy rains caused several streets to flood with a portion of Highway 80 under water. The intersections near Interstate 20 were also flooded.
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, May 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: 5354619, 5355166, 5354615, 5354618, 5354616, 5354617.