6 hail, 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 Grand Rapids, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 13, 9:22 AM EST, 4 hours 53 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 1020 AM EDT SUN JUL 13 2003 AT 14Z VIS SAT IMAGERY AND SFC OBS INDICATE MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES ACROSS OUR CWA. SKIES ACROSS OUR LAKESHORE COUNTIES WILL REMAIN MOSTLY CLEAR THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. FARTHER INLAND THE ETA CU SCHEME INDICATES A CU FIELD WILL DEVELOP EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THE LAKE BREEZE WILL PUSH THE CU FIELD SLOWLY EAST LATE THIS AFTN. WITH COLD AIR ALOFT AND SFC CONVERGENCE MAXIMIZED OVER OUR EASTERN CWA WE BELIEVE ISOLATED SHOWERS AND TSTORMS WILL DEVELOP BY MID TO LATE AFTN. ANY STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL LINGER INTO THE EVENING BEFORE FALLING APART QUICKLY AFTER SUNSET. THERES EVEN AN OUTSIDE CHANCE THAT A FEW STORMS COULD PRODUCE SMALL HAIL SINCE FREEZING LEVELS ARE ALL THE WAY DOWN TO AROUND 9 KFT. TEMPS AT 14Z WERE GENERALLY IN THE 60S ACROSS OUR CWA AND OUR GOING MAX TEMP FCST FEATURING HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S LOOKS GREAT. WELL ISSUE A QUICK UPDATE MAINLY JUST TO FRESHEN UP WORDING FOR THIS AFTN. LAURENS .GRR...NONE.
MIZ037>040-043>046-050>052-056>059-064>067-071>074-141000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 630 AM EDT SUN JUL 13 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT PATCHY DENSE FOG WILL RESTRICT VISIBILITIES TO LESS THAN A HALF MILE IN SPOTS BEFORE DISSIPATING BETWEEN 8 AND 9 AM. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING EAST OF HIGHWAY 131. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED...ALTHOUGH PEA SIZED HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE POSSIBLE. INDIVIDUAL STORM MOVEMENT WILL BE TO THE EAST AT AROUND 10 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREAT. THE NEXT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ON FRIDAY AS ANOTHER COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE REGION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT...BUT MAY BE NECESSARY LATE MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY. MEADE
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 114 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:17 UTC.
6 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A report of seven eighths inch diameter hail was received three miles northeast of Evart. One inch diameter hail was reported three miles west of Hersey.
One inch diameter hail was reported in Rodney, and hail briefly covered the ground.
One and three quarters inch diameter hail was reported in Meredith and Leota.
A report of three quarters inch diameter hail was received from four miles west of Rosebush.
Seven eighths inch diameter hail was reported approximately eight miles north of Greenville.
A motorcyclist suffered a minor injury when he was hit in the mouth by a hailstone. Three quarters inch hail was reported six miles north of Greenville and seven eighths inch diameter hail was reported five miles north of Greenville, where a parking lot was covered by hail near Colby and M-91.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Michigan in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Michigan, 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: 5378584, 5378583, 5378585, 5378586, 5378587, 5378588.