1 flash flood, 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 Pittsburgh, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 14, 1:45 PM EST, 1 hour earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 245 PM EDT MON JUL 14 2003 SOME ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE BREAKING OUT ALONG CHESTNUT RIDGE ACROSS EASTERN FAYETTE AND WESTMORELAND COUNTY. WILL KEEP IN A CHANCE OF SHOWERS IN THE MOUNTAIN COUNTIES TO THE EAST...INCLUDING PRESTON TUCKER AND GARRETT. THESE SHOWERS SHOULD DIE QUICKLY AS THE SUN SETS. SHORT WAVE WILL MOVE EAST WITH WEAK COLD FRONT FOR TUESDAY NIGHT BRINGING SOME SCATTERED SHOWERS INTO THE OHIO COUNTIES LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND ACROSS THE ENTIRE FORECAST AREA TUESDAY NIGHT. SOME SHOWERS MAY LINGER INTO WEDNESDAY IN PRESTON TUCKER AND GARRETT AS FRONT STALLS SOUTH OF PIT. .PBZ... MD...NONE. OH...NONE. PA...NONE. WV...NONE. RSD
MDZ001-OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ007>009-013>016-020>023- 029>032-WVZ001>004-012-021>023-041-140900- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 455 AM EDT MON JUL 14 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA EAST CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND GARRETT COUNTY MARYLAND. .DAY ONE...TODAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL QUICKLY PUSH THROUGH THE AREA TUESDAY NIGHT AND EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. THIS WILL BRING THE RISK FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA. THESE STORMS COULD CONTAIN GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH, PA
344 PM EDT MON JUL 14 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0330 PM ADAMSBURG PA WIND DAMAGE
07/14/03 WESTMORELAND NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ALONG
ROUTE 136 NEAR ADAMSBURG.
REPORTED BY SKYWARN
SPOTTERSThe Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 68 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:44 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flooding along Armbrust Rd in Armbrust, 3.5 mi east of New Stanton.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Pennsylvania, 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5373867.