1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 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 Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 3, 3:06 AM CST, 4 hours 54 minutes earlier.
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA 406 AM CDT SUN AUG 3 2003 DISC... ------------------------------------------- SUBTLE FEATURES ALL TEAM TO PROVIDE ANOTHER BUSY NIGHT. MINOR WAVE IN FLOW TRANSPARENT AT H500 BUT HINTED AT IN THERMAL FIELD H700 LEVEL... ALONG WITH WEAK LLJ AND CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY RESIDUE...AND AMPLE MOISTURE YIELD POTENT THUNDER. SATELLITE / LIGHTNING DATA SHOW LINEAR NEBRASKA/KANSAS CONVECTION ALSO SLIDING SOUTH. PUSHED POPS INTO LIKELY CAT FOR MORNING HOURS MOST PLACES. 00Z GFS QPF BULLSEYE VALID 18Z / 00Z INITIALLY REGARDED AS OVER-JUICED FEEDBACK...HOWEVER GIVEN THE CURRENT RADAR PICTURE... LOOKING BETTER ALL THE TIME. GFS EVEN DEVELOPS MINOR H500 00Z KINK AROUND TXK. MAX TEMPS CLOSER MET THAN MAV AGAIN TODAY. EVENTUALLY GREAT LAKES LOW HEADS FOR QUEBEC AND WEST COAST LOW GIVES A BOOST TO HEIGHTS OVER ROCKIES. AS HEIGHTS BUILD..THE BULK OF NORTHWEST FLOW WOES WILL MIGRATE EAST. GW -------------------------------------------- TUL 97 75 94 76 / 70 40 20 20 FSM 93 72 92 74 / 70 30 20 20 MLC 93 73 93 74 / 60 20 20 20 BVO 96 70 93 73 / 50 40 20 20 FYV 87 68 87 69 / 60 40 20 20 BYV 90 70 86 70 / 50 30 20 20 MKO 95 74 93 74 / 70 30 20 20 MIO 94 72 91 72 / 50 30 20 20 F10 96 74 94 74 / 70 20 20 20 HHW 93 74 94 74 / 60 20 20 20 FORECAST ID= 21 .TSA... AR...NONE. OK...NONE.
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-041100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 600 AM CDT SUN AUG 03 2003 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK ...CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS THIS MORNING... ...SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... ANOTHER COMPLEX OF STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS EARLY THIS MORNING. LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG AN EXISTING OUTFLOW BOUNDARY...MAINLY WEST OF HIGHWAY 75. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL DIMINISH LATER THIS MORNING AS THE LOW LEVEL JET WEAKENS. HOWEVER...ADDITIONAL STORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON ALONG ANY EXISTING OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES AS THE ATMOSPHERE DESTABILIZES WITH DAYTIME HEATING. ANOTHER ROUND OF STORMS IS POSSIBLE AGAIN TONIGHT AS THE LOW LEVEL JET STRENGTHENS AND INTERACTS WITH THE SURFACE BOUNDARIES IN PLACE. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. WARNING PROBABILITIES FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES CAN BE FOUND IN THE OUTLOOK SECTION AT: WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA. GIVEN PROBABILITIES REPRESENT THE POTENTIAL FOR A WARNING TO BE ISSUED AT YOUR LOCATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES INTO TUESDAY AS A NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT REMAINS OVER THE AREA. HIGH PRESSURE WILL RETURN BY MIDWEEK AND BRING A RETURN TO HOT AND DRY WEATHER. .SPOTTER / EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT...SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE REQUIRED ACROSS SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS EARLY THIS MORNING...AND MAY BE REQUIRED AGAIN TONIGHT. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT... WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
0430 AM CDT SUN AUG 03 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0400 AM DEPEW OK GOLFBALL HAIL
08/03/03 CREEK REPORTED BY BRISTOW EMPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
0725 AM CDT SUN AUG 03 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0551 AM VAN BUREN AR WIND DAMAGE
08/03/03 CRAWFORD LARGE TREE LIMBS AND POWER
LINES DOWN...REPORTED BY
VAN BUREN PD
0549 AM FORT SMITH AR WIND DAMAGE
08/03/03 SEBASTIAN LARGE TREE LIMBS AND POWER
LINES DOWN...REPORTED BY
FORT SMITH PD
0311 AM DRUMRIGHT OK 1.75 IN HAIL
08/03/03 CREEK REPORTED BY DRUMRIGHT PD
0213 AM CLEVELAND OK 0.88 IN HAIL
08/03/03 PAWNEE REPORTED BY CLEVELAND PD
0157 AM 6 W HOMINY OK 1.75 IN HAIL
08/03/03 OSAGE REPORTED BY HOMINY PD
RBDPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK
0748 AM CDT SUN AUG 03 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0400 AM DEPEW OK 1.75 IN HAIL
08/03/03 CREEK REPORTED BY BRISTOW EM
RBDThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy thunderstorm rains caused Scipio Road to be closed due to flooding.
An Oklahoma mesonet site recorded at 59 mile an hour wind gust.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oklahoma in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Oklahoma, 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: 5333273, 5333272.