Tornado, Washington
- When
- June 16, 4:33 PM CST
- Where
- Washington County, Chappell Hill
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 30.150, -96.267
No damage.
Tornado in Texas, June 16, 2003
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
- 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 Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 16, 1:45 PM CST, 2 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 1:45 PM CST, 2 hours 48 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 245 PM CDT MON JUN 16 2003 IT LOOKS LIKE ONE MORE DAY OF RELATIVELY HIGH RAIN CHANCES ON TUESDAY BEFORE A DRYING TREND ENSUES. THE 50H TROF REMAINS OVER THE REGION PROVIDING LIFT AND A WEAK DIVERGENT UPPER LEVEL FLOW. THE KEY TO RAIN CHANCES TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY WILL BE THE POSITIION OF THE 85H LOW. THE GFS KEEPS THIS FEATURE CLOSER TO SE TX AND PRODUCES DECENT LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE. THE ETA WEAKENS THE 85H LOW AND SHIFTS IT FURTHER EAST. PWS CURRENTLY RESIDE IN THE 1.8 TO 1.9 RANGE AND ARE FCST TO SLOWLY FALL TO AROUND 1.5 INCHES BY THURSDAY AND CONT A SLOW FALL INTO THE WEEKEND. AS MSTR LEVELS DECREASE AND LIFT DECREASES...FEEL IT BEST TO LOWER POPS TO 20 PERCENT FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE FCST PERIOD. TEMPS WILL WARM TOWARD CLIMO AS RAIN CHANCES DECREASE. .HGX...NONE. .PRELIMS... CLL BB 069/089 069/090 070 242 IAH TB 072/088 072/090 072 252 GLS TB 077/088 077/089 078 252
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 3:08 PM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes before
GMZ330-335-TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-170900- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 408 PM CDT MON JUN 16 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND TUESDAY. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS AGAIN ON TUESDAY. A NEARLY STATIONARY UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE WILL STRETCH ACROSS EASTERN TEXAS. AS TEMPERATURES WARM INTO THE MIDDLE 80S...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE REGION. WEAK MID-LEVEL WIND FIELDS WILL PRODUCE VERY SLOW MOVEMENT. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN WITH ISOLATED TOTALS OF 3 TO 4 INCHES. THESE STORMS WILL DIMINISH RAPIDLY AFTER SUNSET AND REDEVELOP NEAR THE COAST JUST BEFORE SUNRISE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flooding and Hail in North Carolina, June 16, 2003
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, June 16, 2003
- Lightning Strike in Wyoming, June 16, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Georgia, June 16 to 19, 2003
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, June 16, 2003
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 16, 2003
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, June 16, 2003
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, June 16, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Ohio, June 16, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Indiana, June 16, 2003
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, June 16, 2003
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, June 16, 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: 5356904.