1 flash flood, 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 Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 14, 1:10 PM CST, 10 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 210 PM CDT SUN SEP 14 2003 .DISCUSSION... SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE WAS CENTERED OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS SUNDAY AFTERNOON. THE CIRCULATION AROUND THIS HIGH WAS ADVECTING A COOL AND DRY AIRMASS INTO THE OZARKS REGION. AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES HAVE STRUGGLED TO REACH THE LOWER 70S. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY DEPICTED A SHARP UPPER TROUGH SWEEPING EAST ACROSS THE CENTRAL U.S. WHILE HURRICANE ISABEL WAS COMING INTO FOCUS WELL OFF OF THE EAST COAST. SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY)... THE SURFACE RIDGE WILL BUILD ACROSS THE OZARKS TONIGHT. A COOL NIGHT IS IN STORE AS CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO FALL WELL BELOW NORMAL. LOWS WILL GENERALLY BE IN THE 40S. SUNNY SKIES AND MILD TEMPERATURES WILL PREVAIL MONDAY AS THE SURFACE HIGH SHIFTS TO THE SOUTH. RETURN FLOW AROUND THE DEPARTING HIGH AND A DEVELOPING LEE SIDE TROUGH WILL RESULT IN A STRENGTHENING LOW LEVEL JET ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS MONDAY NIGHT. ASSOCIATED WARM AIR/THETA-E ADVECTION WILL SPREAD INTO EASTERN KANSAS AND WESTERN MISSOURI LATE MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY MORNING. THE PLACEMENT OF THE LOW LEVEL JET AXIS AND EXTENT OF MOISTURE RETURN REMAIN IN QUESTION SO I WILL NOT INCLUDE RAIN CHANCES AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER THIS PATTERN COULD AT LEAST RESULT IN INCREASING CLOUDS LATE MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY. THIS WILL HAVE TO BE ANALYZED CLOSELY IN THE FOLLOWING SHIFTS. THE SOUTHERLY FLOW WILL BECOME ESTABLISHED TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY AS AN UPPER TROUGH DEEPENS ACROSS THE WESTERN U.S. THE RESULT WILL BE WARMER TEMPERATURES AND A GRADUAL INCREASE IN MOISTURE LEVELS. LONG TERM (THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY)... THE UPPER TROUGH WILL DROP INTO THE PLAINS THURSDAY. THE EVOLUTION OF THIS TROUGH IS SOMEWHAT UNCERTAIN AS PATTERN WILL BE INFLUENCED BY HURRICANE ISABEL. LATEST GFS CONTINUES TO SUGGEST THAT THE TROUGH WILL DEEPEN MARKEDLY ACROSS THE MIDWEST AS ISABEL MOVES ONSHORE AND IS EVENTUALLY ABSORBED INTO THE SYSTEM. THIS RESULTS IN STRONGER COLD AIR ADVECTION IN THE WAKE OF THE COLD FRONT THAT PUSHES ACROSS THE AREA THURSDAY. I WILL CONTINUE WITH A CHANCE OF RAIN THURSDAY AND HAVE TRENDED TEMPERATURES DOWN FOLLOWING THE FRONTAL PASSAGE TO THE END THE WEEK. && .AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL THROUGH MONDAY. && .SGF... .MO...NONE. .KS...NONE. FOSTER
KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-151100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 100 PM CDT SUN SEP 14 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. A COLD FRONT WILL BRING A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. && THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE IN GRAPHICAL FORMAT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/SGF FOSTER
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 127 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:41 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash flood waters inundated a portion of Highway 63 south of the community of Houston. A dispatcher from the Texas County Sheriffs Office was washed off the road on her way home from work. A water rescue was performed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Missouri in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, September 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: 5336840.