1 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 Sep 18, 1:50 PM CST, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
SOUTH TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 250 PM CDT THU SEP 18 2003 SHORT-TERM (TONIGHT AND FRIDAY)...MSAS REVEALS A SFC FRONT APPROACHING NORTH TX IN RESPONSE TO AN UPPER DISTURBANCE MOVG ACRS THE PLAINS. THE GFS MOVES THE FRONT INTO THE CWFA BY EARLY FRI WHILE THE ETA IS SLOWER. CONCUR MORE WITH THE ETA AND FEEL THAT THE FRONT WILL STALL OVER THE CWFA FRI...AS THE FOREGOING UPPER DISTURBANCE LIFTS RAPIDLY EAST. FURTHER...THICKNESS VALUES REMAIN WELL NORTH. THE GFS/ETA PROG UPPER JET DYNAMICS TO PERSIST THRU FRI. THE COMBINATION OF EXTREMELY MOIST CONDITIONS...THE STALLING FRONT... AND UPPER FORCING...WITH RESULT IN ADDITIONAL CONVECTION TNGT AND FRIDAY. WL RE-ISSUE THE FFA FOR TNGT. WL INCLUDE THE EXTREME WRN COUNTIES IN THE FFA...ESP LASALLE GIVEN ITS LOW FFG VALUES. LONG TERM (FRI NIGHT THRU THU)...FRONT WILL SAG FURTHER SOUTH INTO CWA FRI NIGHT AND STALL NEAR COAST. WILL HAVE SCATTERED POPS OVER THE WATERS AND SOUTHERN CWA FRI NIGHT WITH ISOL ELSEWHERE. BOTH ETA AND GFS PROG WEAKNESS IN THE H5 FIELD ON SAT WITH WEAK EMBEDDED SHORTWAVES MOVING ACROSS THE REGION. IN ADDITION ETA INDICATES JET MAX OVERHEAD DURING AFTERNOON. THIS COMBINED WITH DIFFUSE FRONTAL BOUNDARY STALLED ACROSS CWA WILL WARRANT SCATTERED POPS ACROSS SOUTHERN AND COASTAL COUNTIES DURING THE AFTERNOON AS WELL AS WATERS. WILL KEEP 20 POPS ACROSS THE NORTH. MODELS NOT AS AGGRESSIVE WITH SURGE OF MOISTURE ON SUNDAY AND SHIFT UPR LVL DYNAMICS EAST. WILL TRIM POPS BACK TO 30 PERCENT FOR SUN. 00Z MODEL RUNS WERE IN RELATIVELY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH UPR LVL TROF DEVELOPING OVER PLAINS AND COLD FRONT SURGING SOUTH INTO TEXAS ON MON. HOWEVER 06Z AND 12Z RUNS OF GFS AS WELL AS 12Z UKMET HAVE BACKED OFF A LITTLE ON THIS SCENARIO AND ARE NOW MORE PROGRESSIVE AND LESS DEEP WITH PLAINS TROF. AS A RESULT COLD FRONT THAT WAS INDICATED TO ARRIVE EARLY MONDAY BY 00Z RUNS NOW MAY BE MUCH SLOWER IN REACHING SOUTH TEXAS... WITH THE MAIN COLD SURGE REMAINING WELL NORTHEAST. AT THIS TIME WOULD LIKE TO WAIT FOR RUN TO RUN CONSISTENCY AND THEREFORE WILL NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES TO EXTENDED. GRIDS AND ZONES WILL REFLECT COLD FRONT MOVING INTO CWA SOMETIME MONDAY WITH DRY AND SLIGHTLY COOLER CONDITIONS TUE AND WED. LATER SHIFTS MAY NEED TO ADJUST THIS IF MORE PROGRESSIVE SOLUTION PANS OUT IN FUTURE RUNS. CRP TE 075/086 071/087 072 +73 VCT TB 072/085 068/087 070 672 LRD TE 075/087 072/086 072 553 .CRP...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR TXZ229>234-240>247 THRU 12Z FRI 87...SHORT-TERM 76...LONG-TERM
GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-TXZ229>234-239>247-191100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 600 AM CDT THU SEP 18 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MOST OF SOUTH TEXAS. 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE...WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS OF 3 TO 4 INCHES. THIS AMOUNT OF RAINFALL ON SATURATED GROUNDS WILL CAUSE FLOODING. THE INTENSITY AND COVERAGE OF THE RAINFALL WILL DIMINISH TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO SOUTH TEXAS FRIDAY PROVIDING A LINGERING CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE NEAR THE COAST ON SATURDAY. THE CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE AGAIN BY SUNDAY AS TROPICAL MOISTURE INCREASES IN ADVANCE OF THE NEXT COLD FRONT WHICH WILL MOVE INTO SOUTH TEXAS ON MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. TR/TMT
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
249 PM CDT THU SEP 18 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0240 PM REFUGIO TX FLASH FLOOD
09/18/03 REFUGIO STREET FLOODING.
0240 PM 3 NW GOLIAD TX FLASH FLOOD
09/18/03 GOLIAD FLOODING ALONG HIGHWAY 1726
0235 PM 5 NE BEEVILLE TX FLASH FLOOD
09/18/03 BEE FLOODING ALONG HIGHWAY 59.
APThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rainfall on the 17th through the 19th led to river flooding:The Aransas River near Skidmore crested at 16.94 feet on the 19th. (flood stage 13 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, 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: 5338055.