5 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 5 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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 Jackson, MS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 17, 2:00 AM CST, 11 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 300 AM CDT TUE JUN 17 2003 MAIN ISSUES THIS FORECAST PACKAGE WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBILITY OF HEAVY RAINFALL. UPPER DIVERGENCE PATTERN EVIDENT ON SATELLITE THIS MORNING AS WATER VAPOR SHOWS MOISTURE PLUME LIFTING INLAND FROM THE GULF. WILL LEAN TOWARD THE GFS SOLUTION FOR TODAY SINCE IT SEEMS TO HAVE A BETTER HANDLE ON THE SHORTWAVE APPROACHING FROM THE TX COAST THIS MORNING. CONSIDERED FLOOD WATCH FOR TODAY...ESPECIALLY IN AREA OF BEST SURFACE FORCING NEAR BOUNDARY...BUT WILL HOLD OFF FOR NOW DUE TO BREAK IN PRECIP MONDAY. STORM MOTION WILL AGAIN BE RELATIVELY SLOW TODAY SO WILL ADD PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL TO THE FORECAST. GFS SOLUTION FOR TONIGHT LOOKS INTERESTING WITH SUGGESTION OF MCS DEVELOPMENT LATE. ETA ALSO SHOWS PRETTY GOOD PRECIP SCENARIO AS IT DRAGS VORT LOBE NWD INTO THE FORECAST AREA AND MAINTAINS 250 MB DIVERGENCE MAX OVERNIGHT. WILL UP POPS INTO LIKELY CATEGORY FOR TONIGHT AND LEAVE LIKELY POPS IN FOR WED...ESPECIALLY FOR EARLY IN THE DAY. NORTHERN STREAM FLOW AMPLIFIES WED...FINALLY DRAGGING UPPER TROUGH EWD BY THU. IF MODELS ARE CORRECT THIS WOULD MEAN DECREASE IN MEAN MOISTURE AND DIMINISHING UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE. HOWEVER LOW LEVEL MOISTURE TO CONTINUE AND SURFACE BOUNDARY HANGING AROUND SO WILL KEEP CHANCE OF CONVECTION THROUGH EXTENDED. PRELIM NUMBERS: JAN 86/70/86/70 7663 MEI 87/70/86/70 7673 .JAN... AR...NONE. LA...NONE. MS...NONE.
ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074- 181105- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 605 AM CDT TUE JUN 17 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... ...THUNDERSTORMS... ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS...NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND MUCH OF MISSISSIPPI THROUGH TONIGHT. DAMAGING WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE MAIN RISKS. SEVERAL DISTURBANCES WILL DEVELOP ALONG A STATIONARY FRONT JUST WEST OF THE AREA AND MOVE INTO A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE. NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION TODAY AND CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. ...FLOODING... FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA THROUGH TONIGHT. SLOW MOVING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION. THE GROUNDS REMAIN SATURATED FROM PREVIOUS EVENTS AND ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL ONLY AGGRAVATE THE SITUATION. OCCASIONAL DOWNPOURS MAY CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS ROADWAYS...SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS. SEVERAL RIVERS ARE NEAR BANKFULL AND MORE RAINFALL MAY CAUSE MINOR FLOODING ALONG AND NEAR RIVERS. AREAS ALONG AND WEST OF INTERSTATE 55 WILL RECEIVE THE HEAVIEST RAIN EARLY TODAY...WITH ACTIVITY SHIFTING EAST THROUGH TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... ...DAYS TWO AND THREE...WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY... A STATIONARY FRONT AND UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN WEST OF THE AREA THROUGH MID WEEK. AN ABUNDANT AMOUNT OF GULF MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE FLOWING INTO THE REGION AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH ANY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP. SOILS WILL REMAIN SATURATED FROM PREVIOUS EVENTS...ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL MAY RUNOFF AND CAUSE FLOODING AND FLASH FLOODING AROUND THE ENTIRE AREA. THE LOCATION AND INTENSITY OF THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL REMAINS UNCERTAIN. CONTINUE TO MONITOR FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS ON THIS POTENTIAL FLOODING EVENT FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION. ...DAYS FOUR THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS...IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAN. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
5 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Very heavy rains caused 13 homes in Gwin to flood.
Heavy rains caused numerous county roads to flood. Highway 51 also had water running over it.
Heavy rains caused several streets to flood.
Heavy rains caused numerous streets to flood in west Cleveland.
Heavy rains caused 2 homes to flood and West Park street to be closed. Numerous other streets were also flooded.
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, June 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: 5359137, 5359138, 5359139, 5359140, 5359141.