7 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 Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 18, 3:00 PM CST, 54 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED WITH NUMBERS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 400 PM CDT THU SEP 18 2003 .AFTERNOON PUBLIC DISCUSSION 345 PM CDT... REMARKABLY POTENT CONVECTION WELL IN ADVANCE OF SFC FRONT...WITH NO SIGNIFICANT BOUNDARY FOR FOCUS. DEEP MOIST ADVECTION IN AREA OF LOW CIN. SOME WEAK CONVECTION ALONG FRONT...BUT ONGOING PRECIPITATION ACROSS NORTH TEXAS LIKELY TO DIMINISH FURTHER FRONTAL CONVECTION AS FRONT TRAVERSES THE CWA THIS EVENING. FRONT JUST NOW ARRIVING IN NW ZONES...WIND SHIFT AT GRAHAM AT 2030Z. FROPA AT DFW AROUND SUNSET... WILL CLEAR SE ZONES AFTER MIDNIGHT. TEMPS BELOW CLIMO FRI-SUN...SLOWLY REBOUNDING. RETURN FLOW BEGINS LATE SATURDAY. NEXT FRONT ARRIVES SUN NIGHT WITH BETTER DYNAMICS. TROUGH DIGS FURTHER SOUTH...BUT LIKELY TOO SOON FOR SIGNIFICANT MOISTURE REBOUND. NEW AVN RUN SLOWER WITH FRONT THAN 00Z MRF...IN BETTER AGREEMENT WITH OTHER EXTENDED MODELS. SMEARED CHANCE POPS SUN INTO SUN NIGHT...DUE TO UNCERTAINTY IN TIMING. SUBSIDENT NW FLOW WITH DRY COLUMN TO FOLLOW THE BULK OF THE FORTHCOMING WORKWEEK. 25 FCSTID = 25 DFW 60 78 54 83 / 30 0 0 0 ACT 62 81 57 85 / 40 0 0 0 PRX 60 77 53 80 / 40 0 0 0 DTO 58 77 53 82 / 30 0 0 0 TKI 58 77 54 82 / 30 0 0 0 DAL 60 78 55 83 / 30 0 0 0 TRL 61 79 55 83 / 40 0 0 0 CRS 62 81 57 85 / 40 0 0 0 TPL 63 82 58 86 / 30 10 0 0 .FWD... TX...NONE.
TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-191100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 345 PM CDT THU SEP 18 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... A COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE MOVING SOUTHEAST ACROSS NORTH TEXAS THIS EVENING. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IN THE UNSTABLE AND VERY MOIST AIRMASS AHEAD OF THE FRONT. ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...BUT LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND GUSTY WINDS WILL ACCOMPANY SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL DIMINISH FROM NORTH TO SOUTH OVERNIGHT AS DRIER AND MORE STABLE AIR MOVES SOUTH FROM OKLAHOMA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... ANOTHER COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO NORTH TEXAS THIS WEEKEND...WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS FORECAST FROM SUNDAY MORNING INTO MONDAY MORNING. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS MAY WANT TO MONITOR THE LATEST CONDITIONS WITH RESPECT TO LOCALIZED FLOODING THROUGH THIS EVENING. OTHERWISE...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT.
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 54 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:52 UTC.
7 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Interstate 635 closed at Interstate 75 due to flooding in North Dallas.
The DPS reported flash flooding.
Water was reported one foot deep on Hulen Street in southwest Ft. Worth.
4.7 inches fell in three hours causing flooding in low lying areas and closing some streets.
Sheriffs office reported four to five inches of rain with flooding in Hico, and on FM 1602 near Highway 281.
Numerous roads were closed as heavy rain up to 5.75 inches fell across the county.
Several homes were flooded in Tolar.
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, September 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: 5336960, 5336963, 5336964, 5336962, 5336965, 5336961, 5336966.