2 hail, 1 tornado, 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 May 7, 4:47 PM CST, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 547 PM CDT WED MAY 7 2003 AVIATION DISCUSSION... VFR THRU 7 OR 8Z...THEN MVFR STRATUS ADVECTING NORTHWARD OVER BOTH KACT AND KDFW TRACONS UNTIL MID TO LATE THURSDAY MORNING. PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL TIGHTEN UP TOMORROW...THUS EXPECT GUSTY LOW LEVEL SOUTH WINDS IN THE 15-28KT RANGE FROM 15Z ON. AS FOR CONVECTION... IT STARTED LATE THIS AFTERNOON VCNTY OF KSWW. SUPERCELLS AND OTHER STORMS WILL TRACK NNE TOWARD KFDR...THEN CURVE EAST THROUGH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA OVERNIGHT. 75 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 405 PM CDT WED MAY 7 2003 STRATOCUMULUS TO THE SOUTH OF THE METROPLEX ARE DIMINISHING AT THIS HOUR...LIKELY DUE TO SUBSIDENCE FROM UPPER RIDGING BUILDING INTO NORTH TEXAS AHEAD OF A WESTERN SHORT WAVE. MEANWHILE...CUMULUS WERE STARTING TO BUBBLE OUT OVER SAN ANGELO WHERE RETURNING MOISTURE AND TEMPERATURES IN THE MID 90S COULD BE FOUND. WILL HAVE TO WATCH HOW ANY THUNDERSTORMS ADVECT THIS EVENING TOWARDS NORTH TEXAS. THERE ARE A MIND BOGGLING NUMBER OF THINGS THAT COULD HAPPEN TONIGHT. THE UPPER TROUGH IS EXPECTED TO EJECT INTO THE LEE OF THE ROCKIES OVERNIGHT...SETTING UP THE LOW LEVEL JET. THE ETA DEVELOPS A CONVECTIVE COMPLEX NEAR WICHITA FALLS AND ADVECTS IT MAINLY THROUGH OKLAHOMA AFTER MIDNIGHT. THIS SCENARIO LOOKS PLAUSIBLE AS THE LOW LEVEL JET INTERACTS WITH THE EJECTING UPPER TROUGH. MEANWHILE...A COMPLEX MAY SURVIVE LONG ENOUGH FROM THE WEST TO MAKE IT TO OUR SOUTHERN ZONES THIS EVENING BEFORE TOO MUCH STABILIZATION SETS IN. HOWEVER...IF THE LOW LEVEL JET GETS GOING FAIRLY EARLY TONIGHT...THAN IT COULD SURVIVE EVEN LONGER. TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT...WILL HAVE TO GO SLIGHT CHANCES EVERYWHERE WITH THE UNCERTAINTY IN WHAT COULD OCCUR TONIGHT. THIS MAY NEED TO BE UPPED LATER THIS EVENING IN SOME PARTS...DEPENDING ON WHAT PANS OUT. THURSDAY LOOKS AGAIN LIKE A SLIGHT CHANCE DAY FOR MUCH OF THE AREA...AS AN APPROACHING DRYLINE WORKS WITH HEATING AND AN UPPER TROUGH TO TRY AND BREAK OUR CAPPING INVERSION. WITH LOW PRESSURE AND THE JET ENERGY SO FAR NORTH OF THE AREA...OUR CAP MAY PROVE INSURMOUNTABLE...HENCE THE SLIGHT POPS. AT THIS TIME...A GOOD AREAWIDE RAINFALL IS PROVING A DIFFICULT CONCEPT ONCE AGAIN. FRIDAY LOOKS LIKE A DITTO OF THURSDAY AS ANOTHER WAVE SLIPS BY WELL TO OUR NORTH. BY SATURDAY...WILL UP TO CHANCE NORTHERN HALF AS LOW PRESSURE IS PROGGED TO DIP A BIT FURTHER SOUTH...ALTHOUGH WILL ALLOW NIGHT SHIFT TO ANALYZE THE SOUTHERN TIER...WHERE POPS ARE CURRENTLY NIL PER COORDINATION. SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...SLIGHT POPS WILL BE THE RULE AS I AM HARD PRESSED TO FIND A HIGH CERTAINTY OF A RAINFREE DAY WITH FAST WESTERLY FLOW AND A FRONT HANGING AROUND CENTRAL TEXAS. BY WEDNESDAY...WILL UP TO CHANCE AS GFS/ECMWF TREND SHOW ANOTHER SIGNIFICANT UPPER TROUGH APPROACHING THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PLAINS. FCSTID = 30 DFW 72 91 72 90 / 20 20 20 20 ACT 75 92 74 90 / 20 20 20 0 PRX 72 89 72 90 / 20 20 20 20 DTO 72 91 70 90 / 20 20 20 20 TKI 72 90 72 90 / 20 20 20 20 DAL 72 91 72 90 / 20 20 20 20 TRL 73 90 73 90 / 20 20 20 20 CRS 73 91 74 90 / 20 20 20 0 TPL 75 92 74 90 / 20 20 20 0 .FWD...NONE.
TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-081100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 343 PM CDT WED MAY 7 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER OVER NORTH TEXAS TONIGHT...MAINLY OVER THE NORTHWEST PORTION...NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20...AND WEST OF INTERSTATE 35. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE FROM HAIL AND HIGH WIND...ALTHOUGH AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED EACH DAY THROUGH NEXT TUESDAY OVER PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS. WHILE NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME...SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED...MAINLY THIS EVENING IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF NORTH TEXAS IN THE SLIGHT RISK AREA. 42
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A National Weather Service employee observed a small tornado on the ground in open country for several minutes.
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, May 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: 5355882, 5355883, 5355881.