1 flash flood, 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 New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 2, 1:25 PM CST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS/BATON ROUGE LA 225 PM CDT WED JUL 2 2003 WILL MAKE ONLY MINOR CHANGES TO PREVIOUS PACKAGE. CONVECTION CONTINUES TO FIRE ALONG AN OLD BOUNDARY ALONG THE COAST. THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINS MOIST ALOFT AND NEAR THE SURFACE. MODELS INDICATE INCREASING MOISTURE ALOFT AS THE BERMUDA RIDGE BUILDS WEST ACROSS THE GULF COAST BRINGING BRINGING INCREASING GULF MOISTURE ONSHORE. AT THE 500 MILLIBAR LEVEL A RIDGE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN U.S. WILL KEEP THE FLOW WEAK. MCB 72/90/72/89 2435 BTR 73/90/74/88 2435 MSY 76/89/76/89 3545 GPT 75/88/75/87 3545 .NEW...NONE LA...NONE. MS...NONE. 23
LAZ034>040-046>050-056>070-MSZ068>071-077-080>082-031130- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 1130 AM CDT WED JUL 2 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST AND COASTAL MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND BE SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS LOUISIANA AND COASTAL MISSISSIPPI WHERE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BECOME MORE LIKELY. RAINFALL MAY BE HEAVY AT TIMES AROUND THE STRONGER STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TUESDAY MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS...IS NOT REQUESTED AT THIS TIME. 23
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash flooding on rural roadways was reported by law enforcement.
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: 5372816.