Name: Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, June 15, 2003
Start: 2003-06-15T05:00
End: 2003-06-15T14:40
Location: Texas

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $15,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 4

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 Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 15, 2:45 AM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 2:45 AM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes before

SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
345 AM CDT SUN JUN 15 2003

MID-JUNE UPPER LOW IS CREATING THE FOCUS FOR MAINLY NOCTURNAL
CONVECTION. WILL KEEP POPS HIGH IN THE DAYTIME, BUT EXPECT MOST OF
THE HEAVY RAINFALL TO OCCUR OUTSIDE OF A 10AM TO 3PM WINDOW. POPS TO
BE HIGH FOR THIS MORNING AS THE RAINS GOT A LATE START AND WILL
LIKELY CARRY OVER INTO MUCH OF THE MORNING--ESPECIALLY SOUTHWEST
WHERE MESO-ETA QPF IS HIGHEST.

WILL EXTEND FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON FOR ALL AREAS
AS THE UPPER LOW IS WELL TRACKED BY CONSECTUTIVE RUNS OF THE AVN TO
REMAIN A PEST FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH TX. WILL KEEP SEVERE IN THROUGH
DAY 1 WITH HEAVY RAIN MENTIONED FOR DAY 2 BEST CHANCE OF SEVERE
SHOULD AGAIN BE AT NIGHT, AND WITH SOME STABILITY FOLLOWING THIS
MORNINGS ROUND OF STORMS, SHOULD BECOME REDUCED OVER NORTHERN
SECTIONS FOR TODAY.

MOST MODEL DATA SUGGEST GRADUAL SHIFTING OF THE UPPER LOW TO THE
EAST IN THE TUES-THURS TIMEFRAME WITH UPPER RIDGING TAKING PLACE BY
NEXT WEEKEND. WILL HOLD CLOSE TO NEAR PERSISTENCE TEMPS EARLY, THEN
GIVING WAY TO GUIDANCES AND ABOVE CLIMATOLOGY TEMPS LATE THIS WEEK.

PRELIMINARY NUMBERS...
AUS 088/067/088/067/090 65443
DRT 092/072/092/072/096 55443
SAT 091/068/091/068/092 65443

.EWX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON FOR ALL OF SOUTH
       CENTRAL TEXAS

18/2

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 5:00 AM CST, 24 hours before

TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-151200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
600 AM CDT SAT JUN 14 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY
THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS
NORTHWEST TEXAS THIS MORNING MOVING INTO NORTHERN PORTIONS OF SOUTH
CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON.  SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP AS
A RESULT AND A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...IF LOW LEVEL
CONDITIONS DESTABILIZE AGAIN. MAIN THREATS ARE FROM LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS BUT AN ISOLATED TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
OTHER STORMS MAY MOVE SOUTHWARD INTO SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS SUNDAY IN AN
INCREASINGLY NORTH FLOW ALOFT WITH MORE POTENTIAL SEVERE WEATHER
AND HEAVY RAINS.  ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE
POSSIBLE MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR
MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE HILL COUNTRY.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 15, 12:55 AM CST, 4 hours 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
155 AM CDT SUN JUN 15 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0123 AM    ADAMS LAKE AT HWY 16N
           FREDERICKSBURG            TX   .75 INCH HAIL
06/15/03   GILLESPIE                      REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

DC

Local storm report, Jun 15, 12:59 AM CST, 4 hours 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
159 AM CDT SUN JUN 15 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0151 AM    TOW                       TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/15/03   LLANO                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

DC

Local storm report, Jun 15, 1:45 AM CST, 3 hours 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO, TX
245 AM CDT SUN JUN 15 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0232 AM    OLD HARPER ROAD
           HARPER                    TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/15/03   GILLESPIE                      REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

DC

The radar

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Event by event

3 flash flood, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Edwards

When: June 15, 5:00 AM CST to 8:00 AM CST
Where: Edwards County, Barksdale
Property damage: $5,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 29.983, -100.305 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Showers and thunderstorms over Gillespie and Kerr Counties continued to spread southwestward into the Edwards Plateau through the early morning hours. Rainfall continued shortly past sunrise, with amounts of 2 to 3 inches over Real and Edwards Counties and northern Uvalde County. Up to 4 inches of rain was reported between Barksdale and Camp Wood along the Edwards-Real line. Flash flooding developed in and around the two towns near 0500CST, with FM337 and SH55 closed.

Flash Flood, Real

When: June 15, 5:00 AM CST to 8:00 AM CST
Where: Real County, 17 mi W of Leakey
Property damage: $5,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 29.832, -99.822 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Showers and thunderstorms over Gillespie and Kerr Counties continued to spread southwestward into the Edwards Plateau through the early morning hours. Rainfall continued shortly past sunrise, with amounts of 2 to 3 inches over Real and Edwards Counties and northern Uvalde County. Up to 4 inches of rain was reported between Barksdale and Camp Wood along the Edwards-Real line. Flash flooding developed in and around the two towns near 0500CST, with FM337 and SH55 closed.

Flash Flood, Uvalde

When: June 15, 5:30 AM CST to 9:30 AM CST
Where: Uvalde County, 10 mi W of Utopia
Property damage: $5,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 29.357, -99.762 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Showers and thunderstorms over Edwards and Real Counties continued to spread southward through the early morning hours. Rainfall continued shortly past sunrise, with amounts of 1 to 2 to 3 inches over northern Uvalde County. Up to 4 inches of rain was reported in and around Garner Park, with several roads closed due to flash flooding.

Hail, Val Verde

When: June 15, 2:30 PM CST to 2:40 PM CST
Where: Val Verde County, 1 mi N of Pandale
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 30.200, -101.550

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.
Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

More

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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: 5359539, 5359615, 5359616, 5359928.