7 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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 Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 28, 12:34 PM CST, 6 hours 11 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 134 PM CDT MON JUL 28 2003 COLD FRONT APPEARS TO BE NEAR A IND-STL-ICT LINE AT MID-DAY. THE FRONT IS EXPECTED TO SINK SLOWLY SOUTH INTO THE CWA OVERNIGHT. FOR THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS...BEST CHANCE OF CONVECTION WOULD PROBABLY BE TO THE NORTH OF A SAVANNAH-JACKSON-JONESBORO LINE. A LITTLE HIGHER POPS THERE...AREAL COVERAGE AT MID-AFTERNOON WILL DETERMINE THE ACTUAL VALUE. FRONT IS EXPECTED TO HANG UP OVER THE AREA FOR 24-36 HOURS...AT LEAST. WHILE THERE WILL BE IMPULSES MOVING THROUGH THE UPPER TROF... GFS SOLUTION FOR 48-72 HOURS WRT IMPULSE STRENGTH IS QUESTIONABLE. THIS MEANS THAT MAV POPS FOR WEDNESDAY COULD BE A LITTLE HIGHER THAN JUSTIFIED. POPS IN CHANCE RANGE FOR TUESDAY/TUESDAY NIGHT SHOULD BE OK. MOST CONVECTION SHOULD HAVE A DIURNAL MAX/MIN THE NEXT TWO DAYS. DRIER AIR TRIES TO WORK INTO AREA BY THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. CURRENT FORECAST MENTIONING PRECIP FOR FRIDAY/SATURDAY TIME RANGE BASED ON POTENTIAL FOR MCS DEVELOPMENT. SINCE UPPER FLOW WOULD BE CONDUCIVE FOR THESE...WILL KEEP MENTION IN THE FORECAST. SUNDAY/MONDAY POTENTIAL SHOULD BE LESS...AND WILL KEEP THAT DRY FOR NOW. TEMPERATURES...SEE NO NEED TO MAKE MAJOR CHANGES FROM WHAT IS ALREADY IN THE FORECAST. OF COURSE...LOCATION OF CONVECTION WILL MAKE OR BREAK FORECAST. .MEG...NONE. 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>092-291000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 250 PM CDT MON JUL 28 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST ARKANSAS...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...WEST TENNESSEE AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL. .DAY ONE... A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SLOWLY INTO THE MID SOUTH OVERNIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. SOME STORMS MAY BE STRONG WITH GUSTY WINDS UP TO 40 MPH AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. THE FRONT WILL STALL ACROSS NORTH MISSISSIPPI ON TUESDAY PRODUCING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...ESPECIALLY ACROSS NORTH MISSISSIPPI. A SURFACE LOW WILL DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT WEDNESDAY AND PRODUCE ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE MID SOUTH WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. THE FRONT SHOULD MOVE EAST OF THE AREA THURSDAY NIGHT. UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES MOVING THROUGH THE REGION WILL RESULT IN A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE WEEKEND. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 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. SJM
ARZ009-MOZ113-282330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 617 PM CDT MON JUL 28 2003 THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR...CLAY AND DUNKLIN COUNTIES. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER ST. FRANCIS AT 617 PM CDT... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM IS INTENSIFYING AND COULD BECOME SEVERE. PEOPLE IN CLAY AND DUNKLIN COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE CITIES OF CAMPBELL...KENNETT...MALDEN AND PIGGOTT...SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY.
TNZ002-290045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 710 PM CDT MON JUL 28 2003 THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY IS FOR...OBION COUNTY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF CLAYTON IN FULTON COUNTY KENTUCKY AT 710 PM CDT...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. PEOPLE IN OBION COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF UNION CITY...SHOULD MONITOR THIS STORM CLOSELY.
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 77 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:42 UTC.
7 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Many trees and power lines were knocked down.
Three businesses, a building and a barn were damaged. Some trees and power lines were blown down.
Some trees were knocked down.
Several trees were blown down.
Some trees and power lines were knocked down.
Several trees were knocked down.
Some trees were blown down.
Several roads were flooded.
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, 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: 5330498, 5330499, 5330500, 5330501, 5330502, 5330503, 5330504, 5330505.