Flash Flood, Nacogdoches
- When
- July 23, 5:15 AM CST to 8:30 AM CST
- Where
- Nacogdoches County, Nacogdoches
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 31.616, -94.616 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Numerous streets flooded across town.
Flash Flood in Texas, July 23, 2003
1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What forecasters said that day
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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 23, 2:35 AM CST, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 2:35 AM CST, 2 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 335 AM CDT WED JUL 23 2003 STRONG STORMS OCCURRING ALONG SURFACE AND 850 MB THETA-E AXIS...AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT LOCATED ACROSS NE TX AND S AR THIS MORNING. 925 MB PROFILER DATA SHOWS CONVERGENCE WITH WINNFIELD AND PALESTINE PROFILERS HAVING 20 KTS FROM THE SOUTHWEST...WHILE DE QUEEN HAS 30 KTS FROM THE NORTHEAST. STORMS SHOULD BEGIN TO DECREASE IN INTENSITY AND COVERAGE THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS...AS THE LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE AND UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE BEGINS TO WEAKEN. WILL GO HIGH CHANCE POPS ALONG AND TO THE SOUTHWEST OF THE CURRENT LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...WITH ONLY SLIGHT CHANCE JUST NORTHEAST OF THE CURRENT LINE OF STORMS. THE FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY PUSH SOUTHWARD TODAY...BRINGING IN DRIER AND SLIGHTLY COOLER AIR INTO THE REGION. THE FRONT WILL BECOME QUITE DIFFUSE BY THIS EVENING...BUT SHOULD BE LOCATED SOMEWHERE BETWEEN INTERSTATE 20 AND THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE FORECAST AREA. THE AREA WILL HAVE A BRIEF BREAK FROM THE OPPRESSIVE HEAT AND HUMIDITY...UNTIL THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE BEGINS TO BUILD BACK INTO THE REGION FOR THE UPCOMING WEEKEND. HUMIDITY WILL ALSO BE ON THE INCREASE ON FRIDAY...AS SOUTHERLY FLOW RETURNS TO THE AREA. EXCEPT FOR TODAYS PRECIP...AND A SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN ACROSS THE EXTREME SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA THIS EVENING...THE AREA REMAINS DRY UNTIL POSSIBLY EARLY NEXT WEEK. 22 .PRELIMS... SHV 91 68 93 69 / 20 00 00 00 MLU 89 66 90 67 / 20 00 00 00 TXK 90 68 94 69 / 00 00 00 00 TYR 92 71 94 71 / 50 00 00 00 LFK 91 70 94 69 / 50 20 00 00 .SHV...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 23, 5:04 AM CST, 11 minutes before
ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-231700- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 600 AM CDT TUE JUL 22 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... THROUGH MID MORNING...EXPECT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO CONTINUE ACROSS PORTIONS OF EAST TEXAS SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO SLOWLY WEAKEN AND MOVE OUT OF THE AREA BY MID MORNING. THE MAIN CONCERN WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE THE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAUSING SOME FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN LOW LYING AREAS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS COULD REDEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING...NEAR A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT ACROSS THE EAST TEXAS LAKES REGION AND CENTRAL LOUISIANA. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD REACH SEVERE LIMITS...WITH THE PRIMARY THREAT BEING DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM SPOTTERS...IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT.
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 118 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:13 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Texas, July 23, 2003
- Heat in Oklahoma, July 23, 2003
- Flash Flooding in New York, July 23, 2003
- Wildfire in California, July 23 to 28, 2003
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Texas, July 23, 2003
- Flash Flood in Ohio, July 23, 2003
- Flooding in Ohio, July 23, 2003
- Damaging Wind in California, July 23, 2003
- Flood in Pennsylvania, July 23, 2003
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 23, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Texas, July 23, 2003
- Lightning Strike in Maryland, July 23, 2003
More
Every storm in Texas in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, July 2003
Sources
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: 5365677.