1 tropical storm, 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 Jul 16, 2:30 AM CST, 30 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
330 AM CDT WED JUL 16 2003
RAIN BANDS ASSOCIATED WITH CLAUDETTE EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE AREA
THROUGH THE MORNING BECOMING SCATTERED AREAS OF RAIN EVOLVING IN
THE AFTERNOON. WILL GO FOR FLASH FLOOD WATCH THRU NOON FOR PARTS
OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND HILL COUNTRY. SHOWERS EXPECTED TO
DIMINISH THIS EVENING OVER EAST PART OF AREA AND CONTINUE OVER
WESTERN PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH THE EVENING AND
TO EARLY MORNING HOURS. ON THURSDAY EXPECT SCATTERED SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM WITH DAYTIME HEATING AND THEN DIMINISH
QUICKLY IN THE EARLY EVENING.
MORE STABLE CONDITIONS EXPECTED FRIDAY...WITH WIDELY SCATTERED
SHOWERS. HIGH ALOFT BUILDS STEADILY OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...BRINGING STABLE JULY WX PATTERN TO
THE AREA. WILL GO FOR LITTLE OR NO RAIN THIS WEEKEND TO THE
EARLY PART OF NEXT WEEK.
PRELIMS...
AUS 089/073 092/071 095 52402
DRT 086/073 093/074 095 96422
SAT 086/073 091/074 091 83402
.EWX...HIGH WIND WARNING THRU 4 PM FOR WEST AND SW PART OF
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.
FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR PART OF S CNTRL TX ALONG A WEST OF A
JOHNSON CITY TO SAN MARCOS TO HALLETTSVILLE LINE THRU NOON
TODAY.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
1043 PM CDT TUE JUL 15 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0927 PM KARNES CITY TX WIND DAMAGE
07/15/03 KARNES POWER LINES DOWN
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0929 PM PEARSALL TX WIND DAMAGE
07/15/03 FRIO SEVERAL ROOFS
DAMAGED
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT
0950 PM PEARSALL TX WIND DAMAGE
07/15/03 FRIO HOTEL ROOF DAMAGE
REPORTED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
DCThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 tropical storm. Local standard time, as filed.
High winds from former Hurricane Claudette, now Tropical Storm Claudette, developed over Kinney County near 3 am CST and continued until just after sunrise. The winds were unofficially estimated at between 40 and 50 mph. Numerous tree limbs were knocked down.
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, July 2003The 2003 hurricane season
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: 5376754.