1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. 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 Nov 17, 2:30 PM CST, 12 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
230 PM CST MON NOV 17 2003
.DISCUSSION...
UPDATED ZONES TO REMOVE MENTION OF SEVERE FOR THE WESTEN ZONES
BEHIND THE BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. ALSO REMOVED THE
TORNADO WATCH 954 FOR THOSE COUNTIES AND PARISHES NOT IN
THREAT REGION. INCLUDED TORNADO WATCH 957 IN CENTRAL LA
ZONES. LEFT FLOOD WATCH IN FOR THE REMAINDER OF
TONIGHT...IE THIS MORNING...SINCE RAINFALL CONTINUED TO FALL OVER
MUCH OF THE WATCH AREA THAT WAS IN EFFECT.
&&
.SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
AR...NONE.
LA...FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT LAC031-085-081-069-013-049-127-
043-021-059
OK...NONE.
TX...FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT TXC073-005-347-419-405-403
&&
6ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-181200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1200 PM CST MON NOV 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... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE ACROSS THE FOUR STATE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT. LOW LEVEL WINDS ARE BACKED ENOUGH SUCH THAT THERE IS A DISTINCT THREAT OF TORNADOES ACROSS THE FOUR STATE REGION THROUGH TONIGHT. WHILE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH TONIGHT...PERHAPS A BIGGER THREAT WILL EXIST ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE INTERSTATE 20 CORRIDOR IN THE FORM OF FLOODING RAINFALL. TWO TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS OF SIX TO EIGHT INCHES ACROSS EAST CENTRAL TEXAS AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA THROUGH TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE EAST OUT OF THE AREA BY LATE IN THE DAY TUESDAY...WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ENDING FROM WEST TO EAST. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM SPOTTERS...WILL BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND ESPECIALLY OVERNIGHT TONIGHT.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
1056 PM CST MON NOV 17 2003
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0929 PM FLORIEN LA WIND DAMAGE
11/17/03 SABINE SEVERAL TREES DOWN AND
ROOF DAMAGE NEAR TISGAH
CHURCH LOOP ROAD AS
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
9PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
1156 PM CST MON NOV 17 2003
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1030 PM CENTER MUNI ARPT TX FLOOD
11/17/03 SHELBY COUNTY ROAD 1490 OFF FM
138 CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING
AS REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
1158 PM CST MON NOV 17 2003
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1030 PM CENTER MUNI ARPT TX FLOOD
11/17/03 SHELBY COUNTY ROAD 1490 OFF FM
138 CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING
AS REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
9PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT, LA
210 AM CST TUE NOV 18 2003
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1240 AM ARCADIA LA WIND DAMAGE
11/18/03 BIENVILLE SEVERAL TREES AND POWER
LINES DOWN THROUGHOUT THE
PARISH. REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
16The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Just south of Pollock, on Highway 165, 2 houses suffered roof damage while minor damage occurred to several other homes, and 1 barn 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, November 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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5338123.