1 winter weather, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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 Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 12, 3:01 AM CST, 6 hours 59 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 301 AM CST FRI DEC 12 2003 THE HEAVY SNOW WARNING HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO INCLUDE NORTH CENTRAL OK AS WELL AS NORTHWEST OK. POTENTIAL STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL AMOUNTS STILL APPEAR TO BE IN THE 6 TO 10 INCH RANGE. FARTHER SOUTH...IN A STRIP FROM SOUTHWEST TO NORTH CENTRAL OK...IS AN AREA OF GREATER CONCERN FOR MIXED PRECIPITATION TYPE. WARM TEMPERATURES AT 850 ACROSS SOUTHWEST TX AND AN 80 MB LAYER OF GREATER THAN ZERO TEMPERATURE ABOVE 800 MB ON THE OUN 00Z SOUNDING ARE TWO OF THE FACTORS. ADDITIONALLY...SOUTH WINDS IN THIS LAYER GIVE CAUSE TO FORECAST FREEZING RAIN OR AT LEAST A MIX IN THIS STRIP FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. UNTIL SYNOPTIC LIFT FROM THE UPPER WAVE VERTICALLY COOLS THIS AREA THIS EVENING MIXED PRECIPITATION IS LIKELY. A WINTER STORM WARNING WILL COVER THIS AREA FOR LATE AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. CENTRAL OK WILL REMAIN IN A WATCH FOR LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. 12Z SOUNDING DATA SHOULD HELP SIGNIFICANTLY IN DETERMINING THE PROBABILITY OF MIXED PRECIPITATION THAT MAY OCCUR IN THIS AREA THIS EVENING. FURTHERMORE...CENTRAL OK IS EXPECTED TO BE IN A LARGE GRADIENT OF QPF. EVENT CONFIDENCE WAS TOO LOW EARLY THIS MORNING FOR A WARNING OR ADVISORY TYPE. ALL HEADLINES WILL RUN THROUGH TONIGHT AS IN THE ORIGINAL PRODUCTS. INFLUENCE OF DRY AIR AROUND THE WEST SIDE OF THE UPPER WAVE WILL NEED TO BE CONSIDERED LATER TODAY...BUT IT WOULD BE PREMATURE NOW TO NOT CARRY THE WARNINGS THROUGH TONIGHT. WITH THE FOCUS ON THE FIRST AND SECOND PERIODS...LITTLE WAS CHANGED IN PERIODS BEYOND SATURDAY. A FEW CHANGES INCLUDED TO CLEAR SKIES LATER SATURDAY AND SET UP SOME RADIATIONAL COOLING SATURDAY NIGHT IN THE NORTH. MINIMUM TEMPERATURES WERE DROPPED...ESPECIALLY IN NORTHWEST OK...WHERE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL IS EXPECTED. FCSTID = 9 OKC 36 26 36 25 / 70 90 20 00 HBR 34 24 37 24 / 70 70 10 00 SPS 38 29 40 26 / 60 40 10 00 GAG 28 19 34 21 / 99 99 10 00 PNC 31 23 34 22 / 70 99 40 00 DUA 43 32 39 27 / 70 70 30 00 .OUN... OK...HEAVY SNOW WARNING TODAY AND TONIGHT NORTHWEST. HEAVY SNOW WARNING LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NORTH CENTRAL. WINTER STORM WARNING THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT WEST CENTRAL AND PART OF CENTRAL. WINTER STORM WATCH LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT CENTRAL TX...NONE
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
655 AM CST FRI DEC 12 2003
OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-131300-
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK COVERS NORTHERN...WESTERN...
CENTRAL...AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS.
.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY OVER WESTERN NORTH TEXAS
AND THE SOUTHERN HALF OF OKLAHOMA...HOWEVER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE
NOT EXPECTED.
DISCUSSION...
AN APPROACHING STORM SYSTEM WILL HELP PRECIPITATION TO DEVELOP OVER
WESTERN NORTH TEXAS...AND THE WESTERN HALF OF OKLAHOMA THIS
MORNING...BEFORE SPREADING EASTWARD THIS AFTERNOON. HIGH BASED
INSTABILITY MAY RESULT IN A FEW RUMBLES OF THUNDER...HOWEVER THE
INSTABILITY WILL BE TOO LOW FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO OCCUR.
PROBABILITY TABLE...
VALID THROUGH 700 AM CST SATURDAY DEC 13.
PROBABILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING IN THE
NWS NORMAN COUNTY WARNING AREA...10 PERCENT
PROBABILITY OF SEVERE STORMS IF STORM OCCUR...0 PERCENT
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
WINTRY PRECIPITATION WILL DEVELOP ACROSS A SMALL PORTION OF WESTERN
NORTH TEXAS...AND THE NORTHERN HALF OF OKLAHOMA TODAY. REFER TO THE
LATEST WINTER STORM WARNINGS AND WATCHES FOR MORE INFORMATION.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...
THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...
NO THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED.
OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
THERE IS ANOTHER CHANCE OF SNOW ACROSS PARTS OF THE AREA MONDAY
NIGHT AND TUESDAY...AS ANOTHER STORM SYSTEM MOVES THROUGH THE PLAINS.
THE NEXT SCHEDULED HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED AT 7 AM
SATURDAY.
JAMESThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Freezing rain caused icy conditions in this area of Texas. Icy roads caused many traffic accidents across the area. However, no injuries were reported.
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, December 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: 5328806.