1 thunderstorm wind, 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 Omaha, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 18, 1:10 PM CST, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 210 PM CDT MON AUG 18 2003 TEMPERATURES AND PRECIP CHANCES THROUGH MIDWEEK MAIN CONCERN. SYNOPSIS...SURFACE TROF LOCATED ACROSS CENTRAL NEBRASKA AT 18Z WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING FROM NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS INTO NORTHEAST NEBARSKA. EXTENSIVE CLOUDS ACOSS MOST OF THE AREA FROM CONVECTION THIS MORNING THAT MOVED JUST WEST OF THE CWA. SOUTHEAST PARTS OF THE CWA REMAIN VERY HOT WITH TEMPERATURES AROUND 100 FROM OMAHA AND LINCOLN SOUTH. UPPER WAVE CONTINUES TO LINGER OVER THE CENTRAL ROCKIES WITH MAIN FLOW STILL ACROSS CANADA. WITH CONVECTION ALREADY DEVELOPING WILL INCREASE POPS ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA FOR THIS EVENING AT LEAST WITH A CONTINUED CHANCE THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS MODELS TRACK UPPER WAVE SLOWLY ACROSS CENTRAL PLAINS DURING THIS TIME. TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TO BE A CHALLENGE AS SURFACE TROF LINGERS ACROSS CENTRAL NEBRASKA WITH TEMPERATURES DEPENDANT ON AMOUNT OF CLOUD AND PRECIP COVERAGE. WILL CONTINUE WITH CURRENT TEMPERATURE TRENDS IN FORCAST FOR TUESDAY AND BEYOND AT THIS TIME. NOT MUCH CHANGE OTHERWISE TO REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST. .OMA...NONE. FOBERT
IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034- 042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-191000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 500 PM CDT MON AUG 18 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PARTS OF EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND TUESDAY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS MOST OF THE OUTLOOK AREA THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS AS A SLOW MOVING SURFACE AND UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM CROSSES THE AREA. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER HAZARDS APPEAR TO BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. ALSO...HEAT INDICES ARE AGAIN FORECAST TO REACH 100 TO 105 DEGREES TUESDAY AFTERNOON MAINLY NEAR AND SOUTH OF THE PLATTE RIVER IN NEBRASKA AND FROM COUNCIL BLUFFS SOUTHWARD IN SOUTHWEST IOWA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE WEDNESDAY AS THE STORM SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS THE PLAINS. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN HAZARD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED TONIGHT. DEE
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
427 PM CDT MON AUG 18 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0420 PM WILBER NE 65 MPH TSTM GUST
08/18/03 SALINE REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
535 PM CDT MON AUG 18 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0527 PM 2 N BELLWOOD NE 60 MPH TSTM GUST
08/18/03 BUTLER REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
540 PM CDT MON AUG 18 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0513 PM 1 NE WAVERLY NE 60 MPH TSTM GUST
08/18/03 LANCASTER REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
556 PM CDT MON AUG 18 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0545 PM SCRIBNER NE WIND DAMAGE
08/18/03 DODGE REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
605 PM CDT MON AUG 18 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0545 PM SCRIBNER NE WIND DAMAGE
08/18/03 DODGE REPORTED BY
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
POWER POLES AND TREES
DOWN.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
623 PM CDT MON AUG 18 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0417 PM 1 W WILBER NE 68 MPH TSTM GUST
08/18/03 SALINE NUMEROUS TREES BROKEN
AND DOWNED. REPORTED
BY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
0417 PM WILBER NE 68 MPH TSTM GUST
08/18/03 SALINE NUMEROUS LARGE TREE
LIMBS BROKEN, SERVERAL
LARGE TREES BLOWN DOWN
AND STREET FLOODING.
REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0417 PM 2 NW WILBER NE 68 MPH TSTM GUST
08/18/03 SALINE TREES UPROOTED AND
BRANCHES BLOWN DOWN.
REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0417 PM FRIEND NE 68 MPH TSTM GUST
08/18/03 SALINE ROOF BLOWN OFF ONE
BUSINESS IN DOWNTOWN
AREA. ROOF 60 X 60.
REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0427 PM WILBER NE 66 MPH TSTM GUST
08/18/03 SALINE REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm wind gusts downed a large tree which briefly blocked Highway 51 west of Decatur.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Nebraska in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, August 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: 5374824.