Showers and thunderstorms produced rainfall totals of 3 to 5 inches in parts of western Oklahoma including Ellis and Roger Mills counties. Three-inch rainfall amounts were recorded in two hours during the afternoon of the 19th in Ellis County.
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The episode as NWS OUN wrote it up.
Showers and thunderstorms produced rainfall totals of 3 to 5 inches in parts of western Oklahoma including Ellis and Roger Mills counties. Three-inch rainfall amounts were recorded in two hours during the afternoon of the 19th in Ellis County. The heavy rains fell over soils that had been previously saturated by precipitation a few days before, and the resulting runoff produced bankfull conditions along small creeks in the region, and temporarily halted the wheat harvest. In Ellis County, Rock Creek and Wolf Creek were at bankfull levels, as well as many ditches in the area.
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 Jun 19, 1:35 PM CST, 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OKLAHOMA 235 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2003 SEVERAL SHORTWAVES WILL CONT TO MAKE THEIR WAY EAST AND NORTHEAST OUT OF THE MEAN LONGWAVE TROUGH TO OUR WEST ACROSS THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES INTO THE SOUTHERN/CENTRAL PLAINS FROM LATE THIS AFTN THROUGH SAT. WITH THE STRONGEST OF THESE COMING OUT THIS EVENING INTO TOMORROW. ALONG WITH VERY WEAK SFC TROUGH MOVING SOUTH OUT OF KS/MO WILL KEEP CHANCES FOR RAIN IN THE FORECAST THRU THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS...WITH BETTER CHANCES ACROSS NORTHERN HALF OF AREA. WARMER TEMPS ALSO EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA OVER THE WEEKEND INTO NEXT WEEK WITH MANY AREAS SEEING ABOVE NORMAL TEMPS BY SUN AND LASTING THROUGH REMAINDER OF FORECAST PERIOD. ENOUGH WARMING WILL OCCUR IN MID LEVELS TO SUPPRESS ANY SHWR/TSTM ACTIVITY BEGINNING SUN AND LASTING INTO MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. YESTERDAY MEDIUM RANGE MODELS DEPICTED A FRONT TO MOVE INTO AREA BY LATE TUE/WED...BUT HAVE NOW BACKED OFF ON THAT UNTIL LATER IN THE WEEK. WILL TRY TO KEEP POPS FOCUSED ON THIS EVENT SO WILL KEEP POPS OUT OF FORECAST UNTIL THU. FCSTID =30 OKC 65 86 68 88 / 30 30 20 30 HBR 65 89 68 93 / 40 30 20 20 SPS 67 91 69 94 / 20 20 10 20 GAG 62 83 66 91 / 60 40 20 20 PNC 64 83 68 87 / 40 40 20 30 DUA 68 88 69 89 / 20 20 20 30 .OUN... OK...NONE. TX...NONE.
OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-201200-
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
1200 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2003
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK COVERS NORTHERN...WESTERN...
CENTRAL...AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS.
.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT.
DISCUSSION...
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP
FROM THE TEXAS PANHANDLE INTO WESTERN OKLAHOMA IN ADVANCE OF A MID
LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING NORTHEASTWARD FROM EASTERN NEW MEXICO.
THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME A BIT MORE WIDESPREAD THIS AFTERNOON
AND THIS EVENING AS THE DISTURBANCE CONTINUES TO ADVANCE TOWARD THE
AREA. MORE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON
ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. DEEP LAYER WIND SHEAR REMAINS
WEAK AND INSTABILITY LIMITED ACROSS OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN NORTH
TEXAS. AS A RESULT NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED.
PROBABILITY TABLE...
VALID THROUGH 700 AM CDT FRIDAY JUN 20.
PROBABILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING IN THE
NWS NORMAN COUNTY WARNING AREA...90 PERCENT.
PROBABILITY OF SEVERE STORMS IF STORMS OCCUR...2 PERCENT.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
NONE.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE... MAINLY IN NORTHERN AND
WESTERN OKLAHOMA INTO THE WEEKEND. ON FRIDAY...DEEP LAYER SHEAR
IS FORECAST TO INCREASE ACROSS THE AREA AS ANOTHER SYSTEM OVER THE
SOUTHWESTERN STATES APPROACHES THE AREA. STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS
MAY DEVELOP ACROSS THE HIGH PLAINS FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND THEN MOVE
EAST INTO WESTERN OKLAHOMA. AT THIS TIME IT APPEARS ORGANIZED
SEVERE WEATHER WILL REMAIN TO THE WEST. ANOTHER CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED DURING THE MIDDLE PART OF NEXT WEEK.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
NONE.
THE NEXT SCHEDULED HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED AT 7 AM
CDT FRIDAY JUNE 20TH.
SIXOKZ009-191945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 231 PM CDT THU JUN 19 2003 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY... THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR ELLIS COUNTY. AT 230 PM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED BETWEEN ARNETT AND STATTUCK AND WAS ...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAINFALL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AND NO WARNINGS ARE ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. SIX
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 157 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:12 UTC.
2 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A low area along Highway 15 in Gage was covered by floodwaters to a depth of about one foot.
A roadside park in Arnett was inundated by heavy rains causing low land flooding during the afternoon.
Unofficial rainfall totals up to 10 inches were observed, causing Nine Mile Creek to overtop its banks and flood croplands, farm implements, and low-lying rural roads.
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, June 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: 5362767, 5362818, 5362817.