12 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 10, 11:30 AM CST, 45 minutes earlier.
MESOSCALE FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKLAHOMA 1230 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2003 THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING ALONG DRY LINE ATTM...NEAR A BVO...OKC LINE. EXPECT THUNDERSTORM INTENSIFICATION TO CONTINUE ALONG BOUNDARY FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. ATMOSPHERE REMAINS VERY UNSTABLE WITH MUCAPES AROUND 4000 J/KG...COUPLED WITH DEEP LAYER SHEAR BETWEEN 50-60 KTS. SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY WITH HAIL TO THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS AND A FEW TORNADOES. PERSONS ACROSS EASTERN OKLAHOMA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS CLOSELY AS WARNINGS WILL LIKELY BE ISSUED WITHIN THE HOUR. .TSA... AR...NONE. OK...NONE FORECAST ID=12
ARZ001-002-010-011-019-020-029-OKZ049-053>076-111100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 100 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2003 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS AS WELL AS MUCH OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK ...NUMEROUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... EARLY THIS AFTERNOON SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING ALONG A WIND SHIFT LINE FROM NEAR BARTLESVILLE TO JUST EAST OF OKLAHOMA CITY TO WITCHITA FALLS. THIS LINE WILL PROGRESS EASTWARD THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS A POWERFUL UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM LIFTS NORTHEAST OUT OF THE DESERT SOUTHWEST INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS. THIS UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM WILL DRIVE A COLD FRONT SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING BRINGING AN END TO THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. RICH MOISTURE...EXTREME INSTABILITY AND FAVORABLE WIND FIELDS WILL LEAD TO SOME SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE VERY LARGE HAIL AND TORNADOES. A SQUALL LINE WILL EVENTUALLY EVOLVE FROM THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS AND IT WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO ALSO PRODUCE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS. 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...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY COOLER AND DRIER CONDITIONS WILL KEEP THE WEATHER QUIET FOR SUNDAY AND MONDAY BEFORE THE NEXT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS RETURNS BY AROUND TUESDAY. MOISTURE WILL ONCE AGAIN BE ON THE INCREASE WITH WARMER TEMPERATURES AND A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING THROUGH AT LEAST WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. .SPOTTER / EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY OFFICIALS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS VERY CLOSELY TODAY. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT... WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TULSA
ARZ001>002-010>011-019>020-029-OKZ049-053>076-110000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 1200 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED TORNADO WATCH #338 UNTIL 700 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS: IN ARKANSAS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 7 COUNTIES... IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS: BENTON CARROLL CRAWFORD MADISON WASHINGTON IN WEST CENTRAL ARKANSAS: FRANKLIN SEBASTIAN IN OKLAHOMA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 25 COUNTIES... IN EAST CENTRAL OKLAHOMA: CHEROKEE MUSKOGEE OKFUSKEE SEQUOYAH IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA: ADAIR CRAIG CREEK DELAWARE MAYES NOWATA OKMULGEE OSAGE OTTAWA PAWNEE ROGERS TULSA WAGONER WASHINGTON IN SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA: CHOCTAW HASKELL LATIMER LE FLORE MCINTOSH PITTSBURG PUSHMATAHA THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ANTLERS...BARTLESVILLE...BENTONVILLE... BERRYVILLE...BRISTOW...BROKEN ARROW...CEDARVILLE...CLAREMORE... CLAYTON...EUFAULA...EUREKA SPRINGS...FAYETTEVILLE...FORT SMITH... HUGO...HUNTSVILLE...JAY...MCALESTER...MIAMI...MOUNTAINBURG... MUSKOGEE...NATURAL DAM...NOWATA...OKEMAH...OKMULGEE...OZARK... PAWHUSKA...PAWNEE...POTEAU...PRYOR...ROGERS...SALLISAW...SAND SPRINGS...SILOAM SPRINGS...SPRINGDALE...STIGLER...STILWELL... TAHLEQUAH...TULSA...VAN BUREN...VINITA...WAGONER AND WILBURTON.
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 110 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:15 UTC.
12 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The fire department estimated thunderstorm winds of 60 miles an hour at Westport.
Tennis ball size hail fell in Sallisaw. Damage was done to roofs and windows of buildings and to cars. An estimate of the dollar amount of the damage was unavailable.
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, May 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: 5358800, 5358801, 5358803, 5358802, 5358804, 5358805, 5358807, 5358806, 5358808, 5358868, 5358120, 5358122, 5358121, 5358123.