5 flash flood, 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 Corpus Christi, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 15, 9:45 AM CST, 4 hours 59 minutes earlier.
COASTAL BEND FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 945 AM CST SAT MAR 15 2003 WV IMAGERY DEPICTS A MID LVL S/W ALONG THE RIO GRANDE RIVER ATTM WITH GOOD DIVERGENCE ALOFT OVER SOUTH TEXAS ENHANCED BY NW-SE ORIENTED UPR JET DIVING SOUTH TOWARD MONTERREY MX. THE S/W IS PROGGED TO MOVE EAST ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS THIS AFTN BRINGING A GOOD CHANCE OF SH/TSRA. 12Z MODELS ARE SPLIT ON SOLUTIONS FOR TDY. THE ETA/NGM/RUC MODELS INDICATE A UNIFIED S/W WILL ENHANCE PCPN THRU THE HEART OF OUR CWA THIS AFTN...WHILE THE OUTLIER (AVN) MAINTAINS TWO DISTINCT VORT MAXES...ONE TO THE NORTH AND A SECOND TO THE SOUTH IN THE COASTAL WATERS. BASED ON LATEST RADAR TRENDS AND SATELLITE IMAGES...BLV THE AVN MAY BE THE MODEL OF CHOICE. SFC DIVERGENCE WAS DEVELOPING OVER LAND ATTM WHILE CONVERGENCE WAS INCREASING NEAR THE VCNTY OF THE SFC LOW IN THE NEARSHORE WATERS NEAR BUOY 42020. LOOKS LIKE THE WAVE OF CONVECTION SOUTH OF THE VALLEY WILL SWING INTO THE GULF THIS AFTN...ENHANCING PCPN NEAR THE SFC LOW. THIS WILL KEEP PCPN MORE SCATTERED OVER LAND AND MORE WIDESPREAD OVER THE WATER. THUS WILL NOT MAKE MANY CHANGES TO THE POP CONFIGURATION EXCEPT TO LOWER THEM IN THE WEST. TEMPS WILL BE TRICKY...BUT EXPECT BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS TO ALLOW TEMPS TO REACH THE 70S BY MID AFTN. FOR THE CWF...I BUMPED POPS UP TO SCT-NUM AND ADDED MENTION OF SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. .CRP...NONE. 75/JM (SHORT TERM)
TXZ229>234-239>247-161200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1205 PM CST SAT MAR 15 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE COASTAL BEND THIS AFTERNOON. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME...ALTHOUGH ONE OR TWO STORMS COULD APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS...MAINLY EAST OF AN ALICE TO BEEVILLE LINE. HOWEVER HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED WHICH COULD CAUSE SOME ISOLATED AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING. AREAS OF FOG ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATER TONIGHT. HOWEVER...WIDESPREAD DENSE FOG IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH SATURDAY SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES WILL LIKELY BE POSTED FOR THE BAY AND GULF WATERS ON TUESDAY...AS WESTERLY WINDS INCREASE BEHIND A FRONTAL BOUNDARY EARLY TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 87 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:44 UTC.
5 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
State Highway 534 and 562 were flooded and closed due to high water.
State Highway 628 near Loyola Beach was flooded.
State Highway 359 between Skidmore and Tynan was flooded.
Flooding on State Highway 1360.
Flooding on State Highway 666.
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, March 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: 5346119, 5346121, 5346120, 5346123, 5346122.