2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. 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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 4, 7:04 PM CST, 41 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 804 PM CDT MON AUG 4 2003 THERE WILL BE AN UPDATE AT 02Z TO DEAL WITH END OF WATCH 835. LATEST SWOMCD INDICATES EVENT MAY NOT BE DONE FOR THE NIGHT... WILL HAVE TO SEE IF ANOTHER WATCH WILL BE ISSUED. ACTIVITY HAS BEEN RATHER ISOLATED THIS EVENING...BUT WITH ACTIVITY STILL OVER SW MO AND NW AR...COULD BE SOME AFTER MIDNIGHT. WILL LEAVE POPS AS THEY ARE. .MEG...NONE. SJM/WAGNER
ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-MSZ001>017- 020>024-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>055-088>092-050930- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 333 AM CDT MON AUG 4 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST ARKANSAS...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...WEST TENNESSEE AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED BOTH TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY AND TONIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/MEG. JCL
ARZ008-042215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 445 PM CDT MON AUG 4 2003 THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR...RANDOLPH COUNTY UNTIL 515 PM. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 17 MILES NORTH OF MAYNARD AT 443 PM CDT...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM IS INTENSIFYING AND COULD BECOME SEVERE. PEOPLE IN RANDOLPH COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY.
ARZ009-042250- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 521 PM CDT MON AUG 4 2003 THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR...CLAY COUNTY. A THUNDERSTORM HAVING THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING A 55 TO 60 MPH WIND GUSTS...DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WAS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTH OF MCDOUGAL AT 518 PM CDT...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM COULD CONTINUE TO BE SEVERE AS IT MOVES INTO CLAY COUNTY. PEOPLE IN CLAY COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
733 PM CDT MON AUG 04 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0720 PM 2NW BROOKLAND AR 0.88 INCH HAIL
08/04/03 CRAIGHEAD REPORTED BY SPOTTER.
0720 PM 2NW BROOKLAND AR 65 MPH WIND GUST
08/04/03 CRAIGHEAD REPORTED BY SPOTTER.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
754 PM CDT MON AUG 04 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0720 PM 2NW BROOKLAND AR 0.88 INCH HAIL
08/04/03 CRAIGHEAD REPORTED BY SPOTTER.
0720 PM 2NW BROOKLAND AR 65 MPH WIND GUST
08/04/03 CRAIGHEAD REPORTED BY SPOTTER.
0743 PM MONETTE AR 0.75 INCH HAIL
08/04/03 CRAIGHEAD REPORTED BY SPOTTER.
0743 PM MONETTE AR WIND DAMAGE
08/04/03 CRAIGHEAD SMALL TREES DOWN.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
818 PM CDT MON AUG 04 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0720 PM 2NW BROOKLAND AR 0.88 INCH HAIL
08/04/03 CRAIGHEAD REPORTED BY SPOTTER.
0720 PM 2NW BROOKLAND AR 65 MPH WIND GUST
08/04/03 CRAIGHEAD REPORTED BY SPOTTER.
0743 PM MONETTE AR 0.75 INCH HAIL
08/04/03 CRAIGHEAD REPORTED BY SPOTTER.
0743 PM MONETTE AR WIND DAMAGE
08/04/03 CRAIGHEAD SMALL TREES DOWN.
0743 PM MONETTE AR WIND DAMAGE
08/04/03 CRAIGHEAD TREES AND UTILITY POLES
DOWN. SHINGLES BLOWN OFF
HOMES.
0800 PM LEACHVILLE AR WIND DAMAGE
08/04/03 MISSISSIPPI THREE UTILITY POLES DOWN.
LARGE TREES LIMBS DOWN.
REPORTED BY SPOTTER.
0810 PM MANILA AR WIND DAMAGE
08/04/03 MISSISSIPPI TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
SPOTTER.TNZ055-050200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 831 PM CDT MON AUG 4 2003 THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR...DECATUR COUNTY. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES WEST OF SUGAR TREE AT 829 PM CDT...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM IS NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE AND NO WARNINGS ARE ANTICIPATED. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING MAY BE POSSIBLE UNTIL 9 PM. PEOPLE IN DECATUR COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Some homes were damaged. Many trees and power lines were blown down.
Several trees were knocked down.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Tennessee, 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: 5377092, 5377152, 5377151.