1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Oct 15, 2:30 AM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
SOUTH TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 330 AM CDT WED OCT 15 2003 SHORT TERM (TODAY THRU THURSDAY)...HIGH PRESSURE HAS SETTLED IN OVER CNTRL TX EARLY THIS MORNING. MUCH DRIER AIR IN PLACE ACROSS S TX IN THE WAKE OF YESTERDAYS COLD FRONT. AFTER A COOL MORNING TEMPS SHOULD REBOUND NICELY GIVEN DRY AIRMASS...HOWEVER NOT AS WARM AS MET IS INDICATING. PREFER HIGH TEMPS CLOSER TO MAV GUIDANCE. 11U-3.9U LOOP SHOWS BKN LOW CLOUDS HANGING AROUND EXTREME SOUTHERN BORDER OF CRP CWA ALONG WITH SCT MID/HIGH LVL CLOUDS STREAMING OUT OF MEXICO ACROSS SRN ROW OF COUNTIES. NRN HALF OF CWA SHOULD STAY SUNNY TODAY. ONLY CONCERN OF THE DAY WILL BE WINDS OVER THE WATERS. WILL NEED TO KEEP SCA CONDITIONS GOING FOR THE OFFSHORE WATERS THIS MORNING GIVEN WINDS AND SEAS...SCEC FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS. WINDS OVER THE SOUTHERN BAYS CURRENTLY JUST ABOVE SCEC CRITERIA BUT EXPECT THEM TO WEAKEN AROUND SUNRISE. LLVL RIDGE AXIS SHIFTS EAST INTO SOUTHEAST U.S. BY 12Z THU. ETA IS SLIGHTLY FASTER THAN GFS WITH REGARDS TO MOISTURE RETURN OVERNIGHT AND INTO THURSDAY...BUT STILL MODEST AT THAT. TEMPS THU REBOUND INTO THE LOWER 80S EAST TO MID FAR 80S WEST. LONG TERM (THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY)...APPEARS THAT DRY WEATHER PATTERN IS LIKELY THROUGH THE LONG TERM AS LONG WAVE RIDGE AMPLIFIES TO THE WEST WITH UPPER TROUGH DIGGING OVER THE SOUTHEAST U.S. NO MODEL CONSENSUS WITH TIMING OF FRONT FOR FRIDAY. GFS HAS BOUNDARY MOVING THE THROUGH THE AREA DURING THE DAY...WHICH IS SIMILAR TO CURRENT FORECAST. THE ETA AND UKMET ARE LESS PRONOUNCED WITH FRONTAL SURGE. PREFER THE GFS FOR NOW BUT COULD CERTAINLY SEE A LATER FROPA. AREAS OF FOG LIKELY AS WEAK WIND REGIME DEVELOPS WITH APPROACHING FRONT FRIDAY MORNING. SIGNIFICANT PRECIP WITH THE FRONT LOOKS DOUBTFUL AS MODELS ARE KEEPING PWATS LESS THAN 1.5 INCHES. ALTHOUGH APPRECIABLE MOISTURE IS NOT TOO FAR SOUTH OF THE FORECAST AREA...DO NOT EXPECT SIGNIFICANT RETURN FLOW TO BRING MOISTURE BACK. SURFACE RIDGE WILL REMAIN OVER SOUTHERN PLAINS WHICH WILL KEEP KEEP A FAIRLY WEAK WIND REGIME...ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT OVER THE REGION. THIS COULD LEAD TO MORNING FOG EARLY NEXT WEEK. QUICK PEEK OF MRF SHOWS A REINFORCING COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH THE REGION EARLY WEDNESDAY. FOR MARINE...WILL KEEP WINDS AT SCEC CRITERIA FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY WITH LOW-END SCA CONDITIONS POSSIBLE. CRP BB 080/062 083/067 080 00001 VCT UB 078/057 081/064 082 00001 LRD BB 081/062 084/067 083 0000- .CRP...SCA FOR OFFSHORE WATERS. 76/JR...SHORT-TERM 72/AP...LONG-TERM
GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-TXZ229>234-239>247-151100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 600 AM CDT TUE OCT 14 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO SOUTH TEXAS AND THE COASTAL WATERS DURING THE LATE MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON BRINGING A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE REGION. THIS ACTIVITY WILL REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. HOWEVER MODERATE TO STRONG NORTH FLOW BEHIND THE FRONT WILL RESULT IN SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY CONDITIONS OVER THE BAYS AND WATERS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH SOUTH TEXAS AND THE ADJACENT GULF WATERS ON FRIDAY. ONLY ISOLATED SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED ALONG THE FRONT OVER THE COASTAL BEND. MODERATE TO STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS ARE EXPECTED BEHIND THE FRONT LATE FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES MAY BE REQUIRED DURING THAT TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. JR/AP
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rainfall over South Texas on the 11th and 12th led to river flooding.The Frio River at Tilden rose above flood stage on the 14th, crested at 22.89 feet on the 15th, and fell below flood stage on the 15th. (flood stage 22 feet)
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, October 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: 5371309.