Tornado, Polk
- When
- June 12, 12:56 PM CST
- Where
- Polk County, Livingston
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 30.700, -94.933
No damage.
Tornado and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 12, 2003
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. 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
- $12,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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 Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 12, 12:55 PM CST, 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 12:55 PM CST, 1 minute before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 155 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2003 TWO OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES HAVE MERGED ACROSS NRN PORTIONS OF CWA THIS AFTN PRODUCING A BAND OF HEAVY RAINFALL (2 TO 4 INCHES) AND PULSE SEVERE STORMS. THIS BOUNDARY WILL PUSH VERY SLOWLY SOUTH THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTN. WILL LEAVE CHANCE POPS IN FOR EARLY EVENING BEFORE ACTIVITY DIES DOWN AROUND SUNSET. LATEST ETA/GFS IN GOOD AGREEMENT ON ANOTHER MCS FORMING OVER CENTRAL TX TONIGHT. HOWEVER...MODELS KEEP THIS SYSTEM WEST OF CWA TONIGHT AS POOR JET POSITIONING AND WEAK MID LEVEL FLOW INHIBITS EASTWARD PROGRESS TOWARD SE TX. WILL LEAVE CHANCE POPS NORTH FRIDAY AS A PRECAUTION BUT WILL GO JUST SLIGHT CHANCE CENTRAL/COAST WITH SLIGHTLY DRIER AIRMASS IN PLACE AND A LITTLE MORE CAPPING THAN TODAY. HEAT INDICES WILL PEAK OUT AT AROUND 107 DEGREES AGAIN FRIDAY...BUT THINK WE WILL REMAIN JUST BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA. MODELS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP A WEAK UPPER LOW ACROSS NORTH TX FRI NIGHT ALONG WITH WIDESPREAD CONVECTION. 12Z ETA/GFS HAVE SLIGHT BUT SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES IN THEIR SOLUTIONS. ETA IS A BIT FASTER AND FURTHER SOUTH WITH MOVEMENT OF UPPER LOW AND IS FAR MORE AGGRESSIVE PUSHING HIGHER PWS (OVER 2 INCHES) AND MORE WIDESPREAD TSRA SOUTH INTO CWA SATURDAY. FOR NOW WILL COMPROMISE SOMEWHAT AND INCREASE POPS ONLY IN THE NORTH SATURDAY. STRONG OUTFLOW BOUNDARY WILL LIKELY SET UP OVER CWA SATURDAY AND INTERACT WITH UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN PLACE...SO SPC SLIGHT RISK FOR DAY 3 LOOKS GOOD. UPPER LOW WILL MEANDER NEAR EAST TX/LOUISIANA THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH SFC BOUNDARY LINGERING TO PROVIDE CONVECTIVE FOCUS. EVEN SLIGHT SHIFTS WITH POSITION OF UPPER LOW WILL MAKE A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE WITH RAIN CHANCES OVER THE AREA. FOR NOW...WILL LEAVE CHANCE POPS IN FCST THROUGH WEDNESDAY. FOR MARINE...SCEC CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH FRI NIGHT BEFORE WINDS SUBSIDE A LITTLE SATURDAY. SEAS MAY TEMPORARILY REACH 7 FEET OVER THE OFFSHORE WATERS. 35/42 .HGX...SCEC 00-60 NM BAYS AND WATERS. .PRELIMS... CLL BB 075/095 074/091 072 233 IAH BB 077/095 077/093 073 322 GLS BB 082/089 081/089 079 222
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 12, 9:55 AM CST, 3 hours 1 minute before
GMZ330-335-TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238- 131200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 1055 AM CDT THU JUN 12 2003 ...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING MAINLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM COLLEGE STATION TO CONROE TO LIBERTY. A SERIES OF OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES WILL COMBINE WITH DAYTIME HEATING TO PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL OR DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES IN THE 90S AND DEWPOINTS IN THE MID TO UPPER 70S WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HEAT INDICES ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS IN A 102 TO 107 DEGREE RANGE. AS TEMPERATURES BEGIN TO FALL AROUND AND SHORTLY AFTER SUNSET EACH EVENING...HEAT INDICES WILL FALL BELOW 100 DEGREES. A HEAT ADVISORY IS NOT ANTICIPATED FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS AT THIS TIME BECAUSE HEAT INDICES ARE NOT EXPECTED TO MEET THE CRITERIA OF 108 DEGREES FOR TWO CONSECUTIVE DAYS. SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY.
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 137 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:56 UTC.
Event by event
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Houston
- When
- June 12, 6:02 PM CST
- Where
- Houston County, Crockett
- Measured
- 53 kt (61 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $9,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 31.317, -95.450
Trees and power poles down from the western half of the county eastward to Crockett.
Thunderstorm Wind, Brazos
- When
- June 12, 6:22 PM CST
- Where
- Brazos County, 10 mi N of Bryan
- Measured
- 53 kt (61 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 30.817, -96.367
Trees blown down.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in District of Columbia, June 12, 2003
- Flooding and Damaging Wind in Ohio, June 12 to 13, 2003
- Flood and Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, June 12 to 13, 2003
- Flood in Pennsylvania, June 12 to 13, 2003
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, June 12, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 12, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, June 12, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 12, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, June 12, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 12, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Virginia, June 12, 2003
- Hail in Nebraska, June 12, 2003
More
Every storm in Texas in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 2003Warnings in Texas, June 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: 5355125, 5355126, 5355127.