1 flash flood, 1 tornado, 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 Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 4, 1:30 PM CST, 46 minutes earlier.
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 230 PM CDT THU SEP 4 2003 SCATTERED SHRA/TSRA INDICATED OVER EASTERN AND SOUTHWEST ZONES OF CWFA. EXPECT SCATTERED CONVECTION SPREADING REST OF REGION EXCEPT POSSIBLY NW ZONES BY LATE AFTERNOON. WATER VAPOR LOOP INDICATE TUTT LOW OVER WESTERN GULF WHILE TROPICAL DEPRESSION IS CHURNING OVER THE NE GULF. 60S SFC DEWPOINTS NOW FILTERING IN OVER NE TEXAS AS WEAK NORTHERLY FLOW CONTINUES. BUOYS 035 AND 019 REPORTING NEARLY SMOOTH SEAS W/NORTH WINDS AT 4 KTS. GRADUAL DRYING OF AIR MASS OVER REGION WILL BE FROM NE TO SW DUE TO ORIENTATION OF SURFACE RIDGE. MODELS ARE SHOWING MOISTURE POOLING OVER SW ZONES FRIDAY MORNING. TUTT LOW IS INDICATED BY ETA MOVING NORTH AND THEN LINGERING NEAR THE SABINE REGION THIS WEEKEND. WE EXPECT SOME MID/HIGH LEVEL CLOUDS OVER REGION FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...THINNING BY SUNDAY AS UPPER TROUGH MOVES SLIGHTLY TO THE EAST. LOWER LEVELS WILL BE DRY THIS WEEKEND THOUGH AS SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE DOMINATE. WITH DEWPOINTS DROPPING TO THE 60S THIS WEEKEND...WE EXPECT MIN TEMPS TO FOLLOW. HOWEVER ...DAYTIME HIGHS SHOULD BE CLOSE TO SEASONAL NORMS. GRADUAL INCREASE IN MOISTURE IS EXPECTED NEXT WEEK. GFS IS SHOWING WEAK MID LEVEL TROUGH DEVELOPING OVER REGION BY THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. WE SHALL LEAVE SLIGHT CHANCE POPS FOR THAT PERIOD. 37/47 .HGX...NONE. CLL 070/090 065/091 064 21- IAH 071/090 066/090 065 32- GLS 077/087 072/086 072 321
GMZ330-335-350-355-370-375-TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227- 235>238-051200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 638 AM CDT THU SEP 4 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ONCE AGAIN DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS TODAY. WITH A VERY MOIST AIR MASS IN PLACE...SOME OF THE STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL... PARTICULARLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 10. A FEW OF THE STORMS WILL HAVE BRIEF GUSTY WINDS. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED.
The Houston radar (KHGX), 48 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:48 UTC.
1 flash flood, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Bumper-high street flooding. Water threatening homes in the Winding Woods subdivision.
Tornado in Eldridge Parkway near Jersey Village. No damage reported.
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, 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: 5337289, 5337372.