1 heat, 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 Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 7, 1:50 PM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OKLAHOMA 250 PM CDT MON JUL 7 2003 A COUPLE OF UPPER-LEVEL SYSTEMS OVER TEXAS CONTINUE TO HELP GENERATE A FEW SHOWERS OVER OUR FORECAST AREA. LITTLE OR NO RAIN IS EXPECTED DURING THE TONIGHT PERIOD OVER THE NORTH... ALTHOUGH A FEW SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS MAY OCCUR IN THE GENERALLY UNCAPPED ATMOSPHERE OVER OUR SOUTHEASTERN COUNTIES. A SIMILAR SCENARIO WILL OCCUR TOMORROW. THE BIGGEST ISSUE WITH THIS FORECAST IS THE EVOLUTION OF THE WEATHER SYSTEMS OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS FROM WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. A COLD FRONT IS FORECAST BY MOST MODELS TO ARRIVE IN NORTHERN OKLAHOMA WEDNESDAY NIGHT. GIVEN THE STRENGTH OF THE ASSOCIATED UPPER WAVE... IT SEEMS REASONABLE THAT IT WILL MAKE IT A FAIR DISTANCE INTO OKLAHOMA BY THURSDAY AFTERNOON. EXACTLY HOW FAR IT TRAVELS MAKES A BIT OF DIFFERENCE IN THE FORECAST. AT THIS POINT... WILL PUT LOW POPS ALONG AND NORTHEAST OF THE CURRENT GUESS OF FRONTAL POSITION. A SECOND FRONT THIS WEEKEND WILL CONTINUE TO COMPLICATE MATTERS. IF CONVECTION DOES DEVELOP... THAT WILL ONLY SERVE TO MAKE THE SITUATION EVEN MESSIER. IN ANY CASE... IT APPEARS THAT THE SUBTROPICAL HIGH WILL REMAIN TOO FAR WEST OF OUR AREA FOR ITS DRAGON BREATH TO BE DOMINANT HERE AFTER THE FIRST FRONT ARRIVES. SO... HAVE LOWERED HIGHS SEVERAL DEGREES FOR THURSDAY THROUGH THE WEEKEND. OKC 72 94 73 96 / 10 10 10 5 HBR 71 96 72 97 / 10 0 10 5 SPS 73 96 74 98 / 10 5 10 5 GAG 68 94 70 98 / 10 0 10 5 PNC 71 94 74 96 / 10 10 10 5 DUA 73 93 75 95 / 20 20 20 10 FORECAST ID = 23 = CMS .OUN... OK...NONE. TX...NONE.
OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-080200-
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
1200 PM CDT MON JUL 7 2003
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK COVERS NORTHERN...WESTERN...
CENTRAL...AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS.
.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER WESTERN NORTH TEXAS AND
SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS.
DISCUSSION...
A WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE... WHICH HAS BEEN SLOWLY MOVING
WESTWARD ACROSS TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS... WILL
CONTINUE TO PROVIDE A FOCUS FOR SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS
ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS THIS
AFTERNOON. INSTABILITY...VERTICAL WIND SHEAR...AND THE CAP ARE ALL
EXPECTED TO REMAIN WEAK THIS AFTERNOON. SO IF THUNDERSTORMS DO
DEVELOP... THEY ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LEVELS AND WILL
MOST LIKELY DISSIPATE QUICKLY AFTER SUNSET.
PROBABILITY TABLE...
VALID THROUGH 700 AM CDT TUESDAY JUL 8.
PROBABILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING IN THE
NWS NORMAN COUNTY WARNING AREA...30 PERCENT.
PROBABILITY OF SEVERE STORMS IF STORMS OCCUR...10 PERCENT.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
NO OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS BEGINNING WEDNESDAY NIGHT
AND CONTINUING INTO THE WEEKEND... WITH THE BEST CHANCES ACROSS
NORTHERN...CENTRAL AND EASTERN OKLAHOMA.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
NO OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED.
THE NEXT SCHEDULED HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED AT 7 AM
TUESDAY.
24The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
Hot temperatures killed an 83 year old woman after she became disoriented and drove down an oil field service road where she became trapped, eventually succombing to the heat.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heat, Carter | 2003-07-07 | 83 | Female | Other | Direct |
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, July 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: 5369697.