2 funnel cloud, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 17, 7:50 AM CST, 4 hours 19 minutes earlier.
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 850 AM CDT TUE JUN 17 2003 NOT MUCH CHANGE FROM YESTERDAY AS 500 MB TROF REMAINS IN PLACE ACROSS CWA. 12Z SOUNDINGS ONCE AGAIN SHOW UNCAPPED ATMOSPHERE WITH CONVECTIVE TEMPS IN THE MID 80S. ONLY CHANGE FROM YESTERDAY IS PWS HAVE DROPPED SLIGHTLY...NOW RANGING IN THE 1.8 TO 1.9 INCH RANGE. WEAK 850 MB CONVERGENCE ZONE AND SEABREEZE WILL ACT AS CONVECTIVE FOCUSES. EXPECT A REPEAT PERFORMANCE TODAY WITH TSRA DEVELOPING BY LATE MORNING ONCE CONVECTIVE TEMP IS REACHED. MODEL FCST SOUNDINGS SHOW INVERTED-V PROFILE OVER AREA THIS AFTN SO CANT RULE OUT AN ISOLATED DOWNBURST BUT RISK IS TOO SLIGHT TO MENTION IN ZFP. WILL GENERALLY KEEP FCST AS IS BUT WILL ADD MENTION OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND WORD SCATTERED FOR CONVECTIVE COVERAGE. 35/43 .HGX...NONE. .PRELIMS... CLL TB 088/069 089/070 091 523 IAH TB 087/072 088/072 091 524 GLS TB 085/076 087/077 088 524 PREVIOUS DISCUSSION... UPPER TROUGH WILL LINGER OVER REGION THROUGH WEDNESDAY. MODELS AGREE IN WEAKENING TROUGH BY THURSDAY. PWATS WILL LOWER FROM NEAR 1.8 INCHES TO ABOUT 1.6 INCHES NEXT TWO DAYS. WE EXPECT JUST ABOUT SAME SCENARIO TODAY (JUST LIKE MONDAY). HIGHEST POPS WILL BE OVER NORTHEAST ZONES WHERE LIFT IS STRONGEST. COASTAL WATERS SHOULD SEE INCREASING CONVECTION TOWARD MORNING. INLAND CONVECTION SHOULD INCREASE LATE MORNING AND MID DAY PERIOD. GRADUAL DECREASE IN AREAL COVERAGE OF CONVECTION EXPECTED FOR WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. BY THE END OF THE WEEK...UPPER RIDGE WILL BE MORE OF AN INFLUENCE OVER CWFA WITH UPPER LEVEL IMPULSES MOVING NORTH OF REGION. AS MENTIONED IN PREVIOUS DISCUSSION...TEMPERATURES WILL GO UP TO SEASONAL NORMS AGAIN TOWARD END OF WEEK AS RAIN CHANCES DECREASE. CONTINUED RELATIVELY FLAT GRADIENT ACROSS REGION INCLUDING MARINE EXPECTED NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. 37/42
GMZ330-335-TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-181200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 1000 AM CDT TUE JUN 17 2003 ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS ONCE AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON. THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WILL ALLOW HEAVY RAINFALL TO OCCUR IN SOME AREAS ALONG WITH LOCALIZED MINOR STREET FLOODING. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL AVERAGE 1/2 TO 1 INCH...WITH ISOLATED TOTALS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES POSSIBLE. ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS ARE ALSO FAVORABLE FOR THE FORMATION OF FUNNEL CLOUDS TODAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DIMINISH SHORTLY AFTER SUNSET THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
The Houston radar (KHGX), 29 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:09 UTC.
2 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado was between Scholes Field and the Causway; no damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 2003Warnings in Texas, June 2003
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: 5355237, 5355238, 5355525.