1 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 Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 17, 2:30 PM CST, 8 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
230 PM CST MON NOV 17 2003
.DISCUSSION...
UPDATED ZONES TO REMOVE MENTION OF SEVERE FOR THE WESTEN ZONES
BEHIND THE BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. ALSO REMOVED THE
TORNADO WATCH 954 FOR THOSE COUNTIES AND PARISHES NOT IN
THREAT REGION. INCLUDED TORNADO WATCH 957 IN CENTRAL LA
ZONES. LEFT FLOOD WATCH IN FOR THE REMAINDER OF
TONIGHT...IE THIS MORNING...SINCE RAINFALL CONTINUED TO FALL OVER
MUCH OF THE WATCH AREA THAT WAS IN EFFECT.
&&
.SHV WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
AR...NONE.
LA...FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT LAC031-085-081-069-013-049-127-
043-021-059
OK...NONE.
TX...FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT TXC073-005-347-419-405-403
&&
6ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-181200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1200 PM CST MON NOV 17 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA...NORTHEAST TEXAS...SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS...NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE ACROSS THE FOUR STATE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT. LOW LEVEL WINDS ARE BACKED ENOUGH SUCH THAT THERE IS A DISTINCT THREAT OF TORNADOES ACROSS THE FOUR STATE REGION THROUGH TONIGHT. WHILE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH TONIGHT...PERHAPS A BIGGER THREAT WILL EXIST ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE INTERSTATE 20 CORRIDOR IN THE FORM OF FLOODING RAINFALL. TWO TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS OF SIX TO EIGHT INCHES ACROSS EAST CENTRAL TEXAS AND NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA THROUGH TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE EAST OUT OF THE AREA BY LATE IN THE DAY TUESDAY...WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ENDING FROM WEST TO EAST. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGERS...SKYWARN NETWORKS...AND STORM SPOTTERS...WILL BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND ESPECIALLY OVERNIGHT TONIGHT.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
County road 1490 off FM 138 was closed due to flooding. This is located near the Center Muni Airport.
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, November 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: 5338121.