1 tornado, 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 Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 15, 2:15 PM CST, 15 minutes earlier.
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
315 PM CDT TUE JUL 15 2003
CLAUDETTE INLAND SW OF OUR CWFA AND CONTINUING TO TREK WEST. FEEDER BANDS
STILL QUITE ACTIVE ACROSS SOUTHWEST ZONES INCLUDING MATAGORDA BAY.
TIDES HAVE BEEN SUBSIDING ALONG THE UPPER TEXAS COAST. PLEASE SEE
LATEST HLSHOU. CONVECTION AREAL COVERAGE SHOULD CONRACT OVERNIGHT AS
CLAUDETTE GETS FARTHER AWAY FROM OUR REGION WHILE WEAKENING. WE
SHALL CONTINUE W/DEFINITE CATEGORY POPS SW ZONES TONIGHT BUT BUMP
TO CHANCE ELSEWHERE AS PWATS REMAIN ON THE HIGH SIDE. GFS AND ETA CONTINUE
TO LEAVE HIGH MOISTURE LEVELS OVER CWFA ON WEDNESDAY W/CONFLUENT LOW LEVEL
PATTERN. HENCE WILL GO W/SCATTERED CONVECTION DURING THIS PERIOD.
UPPER RIDGE WILL EXERT ITS INFLUENCE FROM THURSDAY. GFS INDICATE
EASTERLY WAVE MOVING ACROSS SW GULF ON FRIDAY. THIS MAY INCREASE PWATS
OVER SOUTHERN ZONES. THE WEEKEND INDICATE UPPER RIDGE OVER REGION W/SHEAR
ZONE EAST OF OUR REGION.
BUOYS 019 AND 035 WINDS HAVE BEEN TRENDING DOWNWARD (25 AND 21 KNOTS
RESPECTIVELY). HOWEVER...SEAS WILL REMAIN IN THE HIGH SIDE THE NEXT SEVERAL
HOURS. WE SHALL ISSUE SMALL CRAFT CAUTION FOR CWFA MARINE WATERS FOR
TONIGHT.
TORNADO WATCH CANCELLED FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS.
37/42/35/34/38
.HGX...TROPICAL STORM WARNING JACKSON...MATAGORDA AND
BRAZORIA COUNTIES.
SMALL CRAFT SHOULD STAY IN PORT FREEPORT SOUTHWARD
INCLUDING MATAGORDA BAY.
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FREEPORT TO HIGH ISLAND AND GALVESTON
BAY.GMZ330-335-TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-152100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 729 AM CDT TUE JUL 15 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS. ...A HURRICANE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM HIGH ISLAND TO BAFFIN BAY... THE WARNING AREA INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF CHAMBERS...HARRIS... GALVESTON...BRAZORIA...LIBERTY...MATAGORDA...AND JACKSON COUNTIES. ...A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHERN HALF OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS... ...AN INLAND TROPICAL STORM WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR AUSTIN... COLORADO...WHARTON...AND FORT BEND COUNTIES... ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM FOR BRAZORIA...GALVESTON... JACKSON...MATAGORDA...CHAMBERS...FORT BEND...HARRIS...LIBERTY...AND WHARTON COUNTIES... .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. HURRICANE CLAUDETTE WILL MAKE LANDFALL NEAR MATAGORDA BAY BETWEEN 9 AM AND 3 PM TODAY. ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE COASTAL AREAS AS THE STORM MAKES LANDFALL. OTHERWISE...REFER TO THE HURRICANE LOCAL STATEMENT...SATHLSHOU...WMO HEADER WTUS84 KHGX. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE TODAY. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME FOR WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.
GMZ330-335-TXZ199-200-210>214-226-227-235>238-160000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 1200 PM CDT TUE JUL 15 2003 ...TORNADO WATCH ISSUED FOR THE SOUTHERN TWO-THIRDS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS UNTIL 700 PM CDT... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A NEW TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING SOUTHEAST TEXAS COUNTIES: AUSTIN...BRAZORIA...CHAMBERS...COLORADO...FORT BEND...GALVESTON... HARRIS...JACKSON...LIBERTY...MATAGORDA...MONTGOMERY...WALLER... WHARTON. THIS NEW TORNADO WATCH REPLACES THE OLD TORNADO WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS UNTIL 100 PM. HURRICANE CLAUDETTE HAS MADE LANDFALL IN MATAGORDA BAY. FEEDER BANDS CONTINUE TO MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AND EAST FROM OFF THE COAST INLAND ACROSS THE SOUTHERN TWO-THIRDS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS. TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE AS THESE FEEDER BANDS MOVE INLAND. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER WEATHER NEWS SOURCES FOR FURTHER UPDATES.
The Houston radar (KHGX), 140 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:27 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado in the eye wall of Hurricane Claudette damaged a couple buildings at the Baptist Youth Camp in Palacios.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 2003Warnings in Texas, July 2003
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