1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 16, 1:30 PM CST, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 230 PM CDT WED JUL 16 2003 .SYNOPSIS... 18Z SFC MAP PLACES A WEAK FRONT ACROSS NE ARK THRU NW TN. AN ASSOCIATED WEAK SHRTWV TROF IS SITUATED FROM THE NORTHEASTERN U.S. TO THE MIDSOUTH. PERSISTENT UPPER LEVEL ANTICYCLONE IS SITUATED OVER THE FOUR CORNERS REGION AND IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN THERE FOR QUITE SOME TIME. .TONIGHT... FRONT WILL MOVE INTO N MS TONIGHT. STRONG UPPER LEVEL SUBSIDENCE HAS PREVENTING WIDESPREAD CONVECTION TO DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT DESPITE GOOD LOW LEVEL INSTABILITY AS INDICATED BY SFC BASED CAPE AND LI. AS A RESULT...ONLY A FEW ISOLATED SHRA/TS HAVE DEVELOPED ALONG THE FRONT AND MAINLY ACROSS EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE AREA WHERE CAP IS NOT AS OVERWHELMING. ONCE SUN GOES DOWN...EXPECT THE CU FIELD AND ANY SHRA/TS TO DISSIPATE LEAVING CLEAR SKIES ACROSS THE REGION. TONIGHTS LOWS SHOULD BE COOLER THAN LAST NITE AND MAV NUMBERS ARE GENERALLY ACCEPTED. .THURSDAY... FRNT MOVES SOUTH AND WEST OF THE REGION WITH SFC HIGH OVER THE OHIO VALLEY REGION DOMINATING THE WEATHER. 850 TEMPS CLIMB TO AROUND +19 TO +20 WHICH CORRELATES WITH MID 90S FOR HIGHS ACROSS THE AREA. .FRIDAY... ANOTHER WEAK FRONT WILL APPROACH THE REGION FROM THE NORTH TO BE SITUATED OVER SO MO AND KY BY 00Z AND BISECT THE REGION BY 12Z SAT. SITUATION RATHER SIMILAR TO TODAY. GOOD LOW LEVEL INSTABILITY IN PLACE W/ SFC BASED CAPES OF 3500-4000J/KG AND LIS OF AROUND -9. HOWEVER...FORCING IS RATHER WEAK. THEREFORE...IT SEEMS THAT WIDESPREAD CONVECTION IS UNLIKELY. .SATURDAY... WEAK ILL-DEFINED FRNT STALLS OVER N MS. WEAK FORCING ALONG THE FRONT WILL KEEP THREAT FOR RAIN LOW...BUT CONSIDERING THE PRESENCE OF THE FRONT AND GOOD INSTABILITY AROUND FEEL THAT POPS ARE JUSTIFIED. .SUNDAY... NEXT UPPER SHRTWV WILL APPROACH THE REGION IN THE NW FLOW AROUND THE UPPER WESTERN HIGH. STRENGTH OF THE SHRTWV IS A BIT SUSPECT...GFS MAY POSSIBLY BE HAVING SOME CONVECTIVE PROBLEMS. IN ANY CASE...SFC LOW OVER KS WILL MOVE EWRD AND BNDRY OVER MIDSOUTH WILL RACE NEWRD POSSIBLY AS A WARM FRONT. WITH SHRTWV AROUND WILL KEEP A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR STORMS AROUND ON SUNDAY WITH SOMEWHAT BETTER CHANCES SUNDAY NITE ACROSS WESTERN ZONES AS A REAL COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE REGION. SUNDAY COULD BE THE WARMEST DAY (CLOUD DEPENDENT) SO FAR AS GFS 850 TEMPS RISE TO ABOUT +20 ACROSS THE REGION. .MONDAY THRU WEDNESDAY... COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REGION AND LOOKS LIKE THIS WILL BE THE BEST CHANCE FOR WIDESPREAD RAIN. AIRMASS BEHIND THE FRONT IS MUCH COOLER WITH GFS SUGGESTING THAT 850 TEMPS WILL FALL TO AROUND +12 BY WEDNESDAY. CONSIDERING THE DIFFERENCE IN THE TWO AIRMASSES...MAY HAVE TO KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON SVR POTENTIAL FOR MONDAY. .PRELIM NUMBERS... MEM 75/94 76/95 76 00022 MKL 68/93 70/94 72 00122 JBR 72/94 74/95 75 00122 TUP 72/93 72/94 74 20012 .MEG...NONE. VALLE
ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-MSZ001>017- 020>024-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>055-088>092-171000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 336 AM CDT WED JUL 16 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST ARKANSAS...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...WEST TENNESSEE AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL. .DAY ONE...TODAY A WEAK FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE MIDSOUTH TODAY...BRINGING A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA...MAINLY THE SOUTHEASTERN PART OF THE MIDSOUTH. THE STORMS WILL STAY BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL RISE INTO THE MID 90S...MAINLY WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER...BRINGING HEAT INDICES CLOSE TO 105 DEGREES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL RISE INTO THE MID 90S DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...BRINGING HEAT INDICES NEAR 105 DEGREES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/MEG. KRS
MSZ009-162200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 427 PM CDT WED JUL 16 2003 THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR...PRENTISS COUNTY. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTH OF JUMPERTOWN AT 427 PM CDT...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM IS INTENSIFYING AND COULD BECOME SEVERE RAPIDLY. PEOPLE IN PRENTISS COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF BOONEVILLE...SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Some power lines were blown down.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Mississippi in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Mississippi, 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: 5329868, 5329869.