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 Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 7, 1:45 PM CST, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 245 PM CDT MON APR 7 2003 THUNDERSTORMS TRYING TO DEVELOP OVER EXTREME SE ZONES SPARKED BY SURFACE TROUGH NEAR COAST. HOLDING TO THE GOING SCENARIO WITH SEVERE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE EVENING. EXPECT SEVERE THREAT TO END WITH FRONT STARTING TO MOVE IN AROUND MIDNIGHT AND SWEEPING THROUGH OVERNIGHT. SOME ELEVATED CONVECTION AND OVERRUNNING RAIN IN STORE FOR THE LATE NIGHT HOURS THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING WITH CLEARING TO FOLLOW TUESDAY AFTERNOON. WINDS WILL PICK UP RAPIDLY WITH FRONT AND BY MORNING ZONE TIME SHOULD BE CLOSE TO WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA. WILL GO WITH CAUTION ON AREA LAKES AFTER MIDNIGHT WITH LATER SHIFTS NEEDING TO ISSUE WIND ADVISORY FOR TUESDAY MORNING. WINDS SHOULD EASE DURING THE AFTERNOON. NOT LOOKING FOR THIS SYSTEM TO BE A MAJOR RAIN PRODUCER...ALTHOUGH A FEW SLOW MOVING CELLS WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY AMOUNTS. QUITE CHILLY TUESDAY NIGHT AND AGAIN WEDNESDAY NIGHT. SLOW WARMING LATE WEEK WITH DRY WEATHER PREVAILING WITH STRONG UPPER RIDGE. GULF REOPENS EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH CLOUDS INCREASING MONDAY. PRELIMS... AUS NB 048/065 031/068 035 5300 DRT NB 054/065 042/075 046 5300 SAT NB 052/065 037/070 041 5300 .EWX...NONE. 3/8/PM
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-081100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 500 PM CDT MON APR 7 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. AN UPPER-LEVEL STORM SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. THE FRONT WILL INTERACT WITH ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE TO PRODUCE SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SLOWLY EAST AND SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA. WITH MODERATE SHEAR AND INSTABILITY...THE PRIMARY WEATHER THREATS WILL BE FOR LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...ISOLATED TORNADOES...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO TWO INCHES. THE STORMS WILL LIKELY BEGIN OVER THE HILL COUNTRY LATE THIS AFTERNOON WITH THE FOCUS SHIFTING SOUTH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A general 2 inch rain fell across the northern part of Real County. It produced brief flash flooding that caused minor damage to roads.
2 inches of rain over soils that were still very wet from recent rainfall produced brief flash flooding across the western portion of the county. Minor damage was reported to roads.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, April 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: 5349515, 5349514.