2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 8, 8:00 AM CST, 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 900 AM CDT SUN JUN 8 2003 .MID MORNING UPDATE... FCST NEEDED SOME TWEAKS...ESPECIALLY SW CWFA AS LINE OF STORMS MOVES SEWD THROUGH BL MOISTURE/INSTABILITY AXIS AND TOWARDS BEST PRESSURE FALLS NEAR 2MB/3HR FROM KTPL...WWD TO KBWD. MADE THESE AREAS CATEGORICAL WITH HEAVY RAIN WORDING FOR THIS MORNING WITH CONTINUING CHANCE LINGERING BEYOND 18Z WHERE OLD OUTFLOW AND SOME DAYTIME HEATING MAY RESULT IN SCT SHOWERS OR STORMS...BUT THIS REMAINS TO BE SEEN. FARTHER NE TOWARDS THE METROPLEX AND RED RIVER...JUST LIKELY RAIN THIS MORNING I-20 CORRIDOR TAPERING OFF TO SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN AS YOU GET TOWARDS THE RED RIVER...WITH NO POPS THIS AFTERNOON. FEEL AREAS I-20 NWD ARE PRETTY STABLE AND TOOK THUNDER OUT WITH SOME BREAKS IN CLOUDS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. OTHERWISE...TWEAKED WINDS/SKY COVER PER CURRENT TRENDS AS WELL. HELD OFF ON MAX TEMPS FOR NOW...BUT MAY NEED TO DROP MANY AREAS POSSIBLY A CATEGORY PER WHERE CLOUDS/ CONVECTION HOLD ON THE LONGEST. WILL WAIT IT OUT AND HAVE ANOTHER UPDATE JUST BEFORE/BY NOON TO FRESHEN FCSTS UP. UPDATES OUT SOON. 05/ .EARLY MORNING PUBLIC UPDATE 410 AM CDT... A LARGE AREA OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL...WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS...CONTINUES ACROSS NORTHERN AREAS OF TEXAS...NORTH OF A COLD FRONT MOVING SOUTH ACROSS THE STATE. HOWEVER...AS HAS BEEN THE CASE FOR THE LAST WEEK...SHORT TERM MODEL GUIDANCE DIFFERS SIGNIFICANTLY CONCERNING PRECIP CHANCES ACROSS THE AREA. WEAK TO MODERATE ISENTROPIC LIFT NORTH OF THE SURFACE FRONT AND ALONG THE 300-310K SURFACES WILL LIKELY MAINTAIN THIS AREA OF PRECIP THROUGHOUT THE EARLY AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...AS FRONTOLYSIS OCCURS LATER TODAY...EXPECT PRECIP CHANCES TO DIMINISH AS WELL. THUS...FOR NOW...WILL CARRY THE HIGHEST RAIN CHANCES ACROSS NORTHERN HALF OF THE CWA /GENERALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF I-20/ DURING THE MORNING PERIOD. DESPITE A LACK OF DEEP MOISTURE...AND WEAK HEIGHT RISES NOTED ON 08/00Z UPPER AIR ANALYSIS...CURRENT FEELING IS THAT MOST LOCATIONS ACROSS THE NORTH WILL AT LEAST SEE SOME RAINFALL FROM THIS COMPLEX. AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPS TODAY WILL BE A BIT COOLER...AS A RESULT OF MORE CLOUD COVER AND RAIN COOLED AIR. TONIGHT SHOULD FEATURE MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES ACROSS NORTH TEXAS...WITH LIGHT WINDS LEADING TO ANOTHER COOL MORNING ON MONDAY. HOWEVER...AS MID/UPPER LEVEL ANTICYCLONIC FLOW STRENGTHENS DURING THE DAY ON MONDAY...A RAPID WARM-UP IS EXPECTED...WITH MONDAY AFTERNOON POSSIBLY THE WARMEST OF THE UPCOMING WEEK. AFTERNOON MAXES SHOULD BE GREATEST IN THE SOUTHEAST CWA...WHERE DRIER SOIL CONDITIONS WILL ALLOW FOR HIGHER TEMPS. LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE WILL BEGIN RETURNING TO NORTH TEXAS ON MONDAY NIGHT...WITH ISOLATED TSRA POSSIBLE ALONG SEABREEZE BOUNDARY IN SOUTHEAST ZONES ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON. OVERALL...NOT TOO MANY CHANGES WERE MADE TO THE CURRENT EXTENDED FORECAST. THERE MAY BE ADDITIONAL SEABREEZE ACTIVITY IN THE SOUTHEAST ON WEDNESDAY...AS UPPER LEVEL RIDGING OVER SOUTHERN TEXAS NEVER COMPLETELY BUILDS ACROSS NORTH TEXAS. WILL GENERALLY USE PERSISTENCE FOR THE TEMPERATURE FORECAST...AND KEEP THURSDAY AND FRIDAY DRY...AS MID-LEVEL FLOW FLATTENS ACROSS THE AREA. WILL ALSO MAINTAIN SLIGHT CHANCE POPS ON SATURDAY...BUT AM SKEPTICAL AT THIS POINT. DFW 83 62 92 73 / 60 0 0 0 ACT 86 62 95 74 / 40 0 0 0 PRX 81 60 89 70 / 60 0 0 0 DTO 82 62 91 71 / 60 0 0 0 TKI 82 61 91 72 / 60 0 0 0 DAL 84 63 92 73 / 60 0 0 0 TRL 84 63 92 73 / 40 0 0 0 CRS 86 64 95 73 / 40 0 0 0 TPL 86 64 95 74 / 40 0 0 0 .FWD...NONE. 65/DD
TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-082200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 745 AM CDT SUN JUN 8 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20 WILL GRADUALLY END BY LATE AFTERNOON. SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20 MAY BRIEFLY BECOME SEVERE WITH HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED DUE TO THE BRIEF AND ISOLATED NATURE OF ANY SEVERE WEATHER. 07/BB
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
27 goats and some cows were killed by lightning.
Occurred at Lake Merrit.
A large pecan tree was blown down by high winds.
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: 5365697, 5365695, 5365696.