1 tornado, 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 Elko, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 29, 8:00 AM PST, 4 hours 40 minutes earlier.
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 900 AM PDT FRI AUG 29 2003 CORRECTED DATE .DISCUSSION...WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS UPPER LOW OVER NORTHWEST NEVADA ATTM. RADAR LOOP AND LIGHTNING DATA REVEAL SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHEAST NEVADA...WHERE BEST MOISTURE...INSTABILITY AND UPPER DIVERGENCE RESIDE. 06Z GFS PUSHES UPPER LOW/TROUGH EASTWARD INTO NORTHEAST NEVADA THIS AFTERNOON. GENERAL TREND WILL BE FOR POPS TO LOWER FROM WEST TO EAST WITH MOVEMENT/PROGRESSION OF UPPER LOW. NORTHEAST NEVADA WILL BE MOST FAVORABLE FOR CONVECTION...SO WILL KEEP SCATTERED COVERAGE THERE THROUGH THIS EVENING. REST OF THE CWA STILL VULNERABLE TO RECEIVE ISOLATED CONVECTION THROUGH THE AFTERNOON...BEFORE MORE STABLE... DRIER AND SUBSIDING AIR MOVES IN. ONE EXCEPTION COULD BE HUMBOLDT COUNTY WHERE IT/S DOUBTFUL THAT ANYTHING HAPPENS TODAY...BUT WILL GIVE ISOLATED ACTIVITY A CHANCE AS MODEL LI/S ARE FORECAST TO REMAIN SLIGHTLY NEGATIVE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. GRIDS AND CURRENT ZONES HANDLE EVERYTHING WELL...SO NO UPDATES PLANNED. .EKO...NONE. PELOQUIN
NVZ030>037-301300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 510 AM PDT FRI AUG 29 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL NEVADA .DAY ONE... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN NEVADA WILL BRING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. COLLINS
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado touched down in a hay field on the Stewart 96 ranch and overturned a few hay bales.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Nevada in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Nevada, 2003Warnings in Nevada, 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: 5379987.