12 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
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.
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 Lubbock, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 5, 4:01 PM CST, 2 hours 4 minutes earlier.
SOUTH PLAINS AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 342 PM CDT THU JUN 05 2003 DAY ONE... DEEP MOISTURE REMAINS ENTRENCHED ACROSS THE FA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. CONVECTION NOW UNDERWAY OVER SOUTHEAST COLORADO AND DEVELOPING SOUTHWEST INTO NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO. WITH NORTHWEST UPPER FLOW STORMS TO PROPAGATE SOUTHEAST AND BEGIN TO AFFECT THE FA BY MID EVENING. EXTENSIVE CLOUD COVER AND WET SOIL CONDITIONS HAVE OFFSET AFTERNOON WARMUP WITH TEMPERATURES AT 2 PM IN THE MID 70S. STRONG SHORTWAVE MOVING INTO THE FOUR CORNERS REGION ATTM AND TO MOVE ACROSS NORTHWEST TEXAS THIS EVENING. SURFACE FRONT NORTH OF THE AREA AND CONVERGENCE TO INCREASE THIS EVENING. LIFT FROM THE SHORTWAVE WILL AID IN DEVELOPMENT OF STORMS AND GENERATE ANOTHER MCS. THIS FEATURE TO THEN MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE FA OVERNIGHT WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL A THREAT IN ADDITION TO SEVERE WEATHER. WITH GROUND NEARLY SATURATED FROM PREVIOUS RAINS WILL GO AHEAD AND HOIST FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT. STORMS THAT DEVELOP TO AGAIN MOVE SOUTHEAST AND WITH PRECIP WATER RUNNING ABOVE 1 INCH LIKELY TO SEE AREAS OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. UPPER FLOW INCREASES TONIGHT AND THIS TO HELP IN DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE STORMS. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND A FEW ISOLATED TORNADOES AGAIN POSSIBLE. MESO-ETA AGAIN APPEARS TO HAVE A GOOD HANDLE ON THE SYSTEM. THEN ON FRIDAY SHOULD SEE SOME DRYING... BUT WITH MOISTURE IN PLACE FEEL WE WILL STILL HAVE A CHANCE OF SOME PRECIPITATION DEVELOPING SO WILL KEEP CHANCE OF POPS IN FORECAST ON FRIDAY. FCSTID = XI DAY 2 THROUGH 7... CONVECTION MAY BE ONGOING FROM LATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON BETWEEN SYSTEMS. UPPER FLOW STILL FAVORABLE TO BRING THINGS OF THE MOUNTAINS AS LONG AS AREA IS NOT TOO STABLE IN THE WAKE OF TONIGHTS MCS. WILL GO WITH CHANCE POPS FOR THE POTENTIAL. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES INCREASE ON SATURDAY AS THE DRYLINE AND AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT BECOME A FACTOR. MAY SEE ANOTHER ROUND OF SEVERE STORMS OVER PORTIONS OF THE CWA ON SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT. HOPES ARE THAT THE MIDDLE LEVEL TROUGH AND FRONT WILL BE SOUTH AND EAST OF THE AREA SO THAT RAIN CHANCES CAN BE LOWERED FOR SUNDAY. UPPER RIDGE THEN BEGINS TO SLIDE INTO THE AREA AND SHOULD KEEP THUNDERSTORMS CHANCES MUCH LOWER AND HAVE DECREASED RAIN CHANCES TO 10 PERCENT. THIS RIDGE SHOULD HOLD THROUGH THE WEEK ALLOWING FOR TEMPERATURES TO WARM FROM THE 70S ON SUNDAY INTO THE 80S MONDAY AND TUESDAY AND AROUND 90 BY WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. FCSTID = MM FRIONA 51 76 56 81 / 80 30 30 20 TULIA 53 75 56 81 / 80 30 30 30 LUBBOCK 55 77 59 86 / 80 30 30 30 BROWNFIELD 57 78 61 88 / 80 30 30 30 CHILDRESS 58 75 58 83 / 80 40 30 30 ASPERMONT 60 77 61 89 / 80 40 30 40 .LBB...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT TXZ021>044.
TXZ021>044-052200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1130 AM CDT THU JUN 5 2003 THIS IS A HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS. .DAY ONE... CONVECTIVE THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLENTIFUL LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY WILL LIKELY COMBINE TO PRODUCE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG LEFT OVER BOUNDARIES FROM LAST NIGHTS STORMS. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP OVER THE NORTHEASTERN PLAINS OF NEW MEXICO LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THE STORMS WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO THE WESTERN AREAS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND EVOLVE INTO A LARGE COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS SPREADING ACROSS THE SOUTH PLAINS TONIGHT. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE. FLOODING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PANHANDLE...SOUTH PLAINS AND ROLLING PLAINS TONIGHT. PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS WILL BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP SATURDAY ALONG AND AHEAD OF A DRYLINE AND COLD FRONT EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
TXZ021-022-027-028-033-034-039-040-060200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 346 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 483 UNTIL 900 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: IN TEXAS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 8 COUNTIES... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS: BAILEY COCHRAN HOCKLEY LAMB TERRY YOAKUM IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS: CASTRO PARMER THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF BROWNFIELD...DENVER CITY...DIMMITT... FRIONA...LEVELLAND...LITTLEFIELD...MORTON...MULESHOE AND PLAINS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
12 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The West Texas Mesonet station northeast of town measured a 61 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
Strong thunderstorm wind destroyed a shed.
The West Texas Mesonet station south of town measured a 65 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
Strong thunderstorm wind blew down several utility poles.
The West Texas Mesonet station northeast of town measured a 77 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
Strong thunderstorm wind blew down power poles.
The West Texas Mesonet station south of town measured a 58 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
Strong thunderstorm wind destroyed a mobile home.
The West Texas Mesonet station north of town measured a 65 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
The West Texas Mesonet station west of town measured a 61 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
Farm-to-Market Road 2565 was reported flooded. Flooding destroyed about half of the county's cotton crop.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5367584, 5367587, 5367583, 5367586, 5367585, 5367598, 5367588, 5367590, 5367589, 5367592, 5367591, 5367593, 5367594, 5367599, 5367595, 5367597, 5367596.