2 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 Jun 16, 9:50 AM CST, 2 hours 27 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 1050 AM CDT MON JUN 16 2003 LOTS OF CLOUDS OVER THE MIDSOUTH THIS MORNING. MID LEVEL CLDS THIN ENOUGH TO LET TEMPS RISE QUICKLY OVER MOST OF W TN AND PARTS OF N MS. RADAR CURRENTLY HAS SHOWERS OVER CENTRAL PARTS OF THE CWA...MAINLY FROM MARIANNA TO SAVANNAH. STILL FORESEE TRWS DEVELOPING TDA DUE TO HEATING. THINK THE FAVORED AREA IS W TN. TEMPS/WINDS SKY OK FIRST PERIOD. .MEG...NONE. WER
ARZ008-009-017-018-026>028-035-036-048-049-058-MOZ113-115-MSZ001>017- 020>024-TNZ001>004-019>021-048>055-088>092-170900- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 353 AM CDT MON JUN 16 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST ARKANSAS...NORTH MISSISSIPPI...WEST TENNESSEE AND THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A WARM HUMID AIRMASS WILL COVER THE MID SOUTH. A STATIONARY FRONT WILL MEANDER ACROSS THE REGION. THE RESULT WILL BE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. A FEW STORMS MAY BE STRONG WITH CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .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. JCL
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Several roads were closed. Flood water approached several homes in the area.
Several streets 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, 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: 5370031, 5370032.