7 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 hail, 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 Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 27, 2:20 PM CST, 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 320 PM CDT WED AUG 27 2003 UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE U.S. WILL BREAK DOWN OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS AS A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE DEVELOPS ACROSS THE NORTHERN U.S. THIS TROUGH IS FORECAST TO TRANSLATE EASTWARD THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND ALLOW COOLER AIR TO MOVE INTO CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN U.S. BY THE WEEKEND. MODELS HAVE BEEN RELATIVELY CONSISTENT ON THE SPEED OF THE FRONT WITH FRONTAL PASSAGE ACROSS NORTH TEXAS SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY. A MOIST AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE WILL REMAIN IN PLACE OVER NORTH TEXAS AHEAD OF THE FRONT AND THIS WILL YIELD SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH FRIDAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY WITH ADDITIONAL LIFT FROM THE FRONT. HAVE DECIDED TO RAISE POPS LABOR DAY DUE TO ISENTROPIC LIFT OVER THE FRONTAL SURFACE. EXPECT TEMPERATURES TO REMAIN IN THE MID 90S EACH AFTERNOON THROUGH FRIDAY. SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED SATURDAY... ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE NORTH. HIGHS ON SUNDAY SHOULD REMAIN IN THE 80S UNDER MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES. EXPECT A SLOW WARMUP MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. FCSTID = 59 DFW 76 96 76 94 / 30 20 20 30 ACT 73 98 74 96 / 30 20 20 30 PRX 74 94 72 94 / 30 30 30 30 DTO 72 96 74 94 / 30 20 20 30 TKI 74 96 73 94 / 30 20 20 30 DAL 76 96 76 94 / 30 20 20 30 TRL 74 96 75 94 / 30 30 30 30 CRS 74 96 74 96 / 30 30 20 30 TPL 71 97 73 96 / 30 20 20 30 .FWD... TX...NONE.
TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-281100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 100 PM CDT WED AUG 27 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS .DAY ONE... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS NORTH TEXAS ONCE AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS AND HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...AS WELL AS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AGAIN ON FRIDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE REGION. THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ON LABOR DAY. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING.
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 137 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:00 UTC.
7 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Roof and structural damage was reported at Edgewood from high winds.
A boat shed was unroofed west of Pottsboro.
A truck was overturned and power lines were blown down by high winds.
Large tree limbs were broken by high winds.
Street flooding was reported on North Beach Street north of Inteerstate 820.
Cooperative Observer reported numerous large tree limbs down.
Large tree limbs blown down by high winds.
A barn was blown down 2 miles west of Brazos on FM 129.
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, 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: 5378960, 5378961, 5378962, 5378963, 5378872, 5378873, 5378874, 5378875, 5378959.