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 Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 2, 6:45 PM EST, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 645 PM EST SAT AUG 2 2003 AVIATION DISCUSSION FOR 00Z... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FOCUSED ALONG A BOUNDARY FROM NEAR TOLEDO TO FORT WAYNE TO LAFAYETTE HAVE BEEN WEAKENING PAST HOUR...BUT A FEW WILL PERSIST AROUND FWA UNTIL AT LEAST 02Z. ATTENTION THEN TURNS TO DENSE FOG POTENTIAL. DEWPOINTS ARE CURRENTLY IN THE MID TO UPPER 60S AND MODEL BOUNDARY LAYER MOISTURE FIELDS ARE PROGGED AT 80 TO 90 PERCENT AROUND DAYBREAK. WITH LOSS OF DIURNALLY DRIVEN SKY COVER AND WINDS BECOMING LIGHT...EXPECT A REPEAT OF LAST NIGHTS DENSE FOG AROUND DAYBREAK. WILL HIT FOG A BIT HARDER AT FWA THAN SBN DUE TO THIS EVENINGS RAINS IN THE FORT WAYNE AREA. GIVEN AMPLE MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY AND A WEAK SHORTWAVE PIVOTING AROUND 500 MB TROUGH...WILL INCLUDE A VICINITY WORDING FOR THUNDER FOR SUNDAY AFTERNOON. BARJENBRUCH PUBLIC FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR 330 PM EST ISSUANCE... NO SIGNFICANT CHANGES NEEDED TO THE FORECAST. MERIDIONAL PATTERN STILL EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE SHORT TERM WITH 500MB RIDGE OVER THE WEST AND TROF OVER THE EAST...WITH A CLOSED LOW SPINNING AROUND THE GREAT LAKES. AT THE SURFACE BROAD TROF OF LOW PRESSURE TO REMAIN FROM THE GREAT LAKES TO TEXAS. SHORTWAVES WILL ROTATE AROUND THE 500MB LOW AND BRING REPEATED CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND STORMS. MOST WELL-DEFINED WAVES COME THROUGH LATE TONIGHT...SUNDAY EVENING...AND MIDDAY MONDAY. COOLEST TEMPS ALOFT OCCUR LATE SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY. BOTTOM LINE IS A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND STORMS THROUGHOUT THE FIRST FEW PERIODS OF THE FORECAST. WILL KEEP MENTION OF POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER FOR THIS EVENING. LARGE HAIL APPEARS TO BE THE GREATEST HAZARD...WET BULB ZERO HEIGHTS OF 9K TO 10K FT. HEAVY RAIN CERTAINLY POSSIBLE AS WELL WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. FLASH FLOOD GUIDANCE NUMBERS ARE LOW SO FLOODING MAY BECOME A PROBLEM DEPENDING ON HOW STORMS BEHAVE THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING...NO FLOOD WATCH PLANNED AT THIS TIME BUT WILL HAVE TO BE WATCHED CLOSELY. ALSO...FOG EXPECTED TO FORM AGAIN TOWARDS DAWN. BLEND OF MAV/FWC TEMPS WILL WORK. TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY THE UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL BE VERY SLOW TO LIFT NORTHEAST OUT OF THE AREA ACCORDING TO GFS/ECMWF MODEL CONSENSUS. CANADIAN GEM AND GFS ENSEMBLE MEMBERS SHOWING VERY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH KEEPING THE TROF OVER OR JUST EAST OF THE REGION BY LATE FRIDAY. MEX MOS BUMPED TEMPS DOWN ABOUT A DEGREE FROM THE PREVIOUS RUN. WILL KEEP A CHANCE FOR THUNDER TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...THEN DRY AFTER THAT. WILL KEEP HIGHS BASICALLY IN THE LOWER 80S AND LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S. AVIATION DISCUSSION FOR 18Z TAFS... WEAK FRONT HAS BECOME STATIONARY JUST SE OF SBN AT 17Z. CU/TCU WAS DEVELOPING ALONG FRONT AND POSSIBLY LAKE SHORE BREEZE. EXPECT STORMS WILL FIRE THIS AFTERNOON ALONG AND SE OF FRONT AS ATMOSPHERE DESTABILIZES. AFTER MOST CONVECTION IS OVER THIS EVENING...ALSO EXPECT MORE FOG AND LOW CLOUDS TO DEVELOP OVERNIGHT AS FRONT IS UNABLE TO PUSH MUCH SE...KEEPING VERY HUMID AIRMASS OVER THE AREA. SKIPPER .IWX... IN...NONE. MI...NONE. OH...NONE. 12/SKIPPER
INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-031100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 558 AM EST SAT AUG 2 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHERN INDIANA...NORTHWEST OHIO AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY WITH A FEW OF THE STORMS BECOMING SEVERE WITH ISOLATED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL. THE PRIMARY TIME FRAME FOR POTENTIALLY SEVERE STORMS IS LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING HOURS. WHILE THE ENTIRE AREA MAY EXPERIENCE SEVERE STORMS...THE GREATEST CHANCE IS ALONG AND SOUTH OF ROUTE 30. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE IS A CHANCE FOR STORMS SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SEVERE STORMS ON SUNDAY. IT IS NOT YET KNOWN WHETHER ANY OF THE STORMS MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY WILL BE SEVERE OR NOT. THE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF A SLOW MOVING LOW PRESSURE CENTER THAT WILL BE AROUND THE REGION INTO NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES, OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/IWX
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
0424 PM EST SAT AUG 02 2003
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0530 PM WOODBURN IN FLOOD
08/01/03 ALLEN SANDBAGGING NECESSARY WITH
WATER ENCROACHING ON
HOUSES. SOME STREETS WAIST
DEEP IN WATER.
1159 PM 2 W WOODBURN IN 4.50 IN HEAVY RAIN
08/01/03 ALLEN
12PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
0506 PM EST SAT AUG 02 2003
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0502 PM ROANOKE IN 0.75 IN HAIL
08/02/03 HUNTINGTON REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
WAMSLEYPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
0537 PM EST SAT AUG 02 2003
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0657 PM 3 SW REDKEY IN F1 TORNADO
08/01/03 JAY DESTROYED GARAGE THREE
TENTHS OF A MILE SOUTH OF
THE INTERSECTION OF STATE
ROUTE 67 AND COUNTY ROAD
1250W. PATH WIDTH 10
YARDS. PATH LENGTH WITHIN
JAY COUNTY 250 YARDS.
12PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
0556 PM EST SAT AUG 02 2003
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0554 PM COLUMBIA CITY IN FLOOD
08/02/03 WHITLEY STREET FLOODING
0554 PM COLUMBIA CITY IN FLOOD
08/02/03 WHITLEY FAIRGROUNDS FLOODED
0554 PM COLUMBIA CITY IN FLOOD
08/02/03 WHITLEY TEN HOMES HAVE FLOODED
BASEMENTS
12The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 149 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:00 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Water was reported over several county roads, with some areas seeing flowing water up to a foot deep. 2 to 3 inches of rain fell mainly from Lima southwest to between Spencerville and Fort Shawnee.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Ohio in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Ohio, 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: 5377977.