1 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 Wakefield, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 30, 3:45 AM EST, 11 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 445 AM EDT WED JUL 30 2003 .OVERVIEW...RELATIVELY GREY WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH SAT...AS LINGERING FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND MOIST FLOW ALOFT PERSIST. BERMUDA HIGH BUILDS IN LATE SAT TO DRY THINGS OUT A BIT. APPRCHNG UPR LOW IS GUD FOR DIURNAL POPS FOR START OF NXT WEEK. .SHORT TERM...INTERESTING PATTERN...MORE TYPICAL OF EARLY SPRING OR LATE FALL THAN MID SUMMER. HAVE SFC WEDGE OF HIGH PRES SETTING UP OVER CWA...W/ FRNTL BNDRY TO S...W/ WAVES OF LW PRES RIDING ALNG IT. THIS SHLD ALLOW FOR OVER RUNNING PRECIP TO N OF FRONT ADN SHRA/TSTMS TO S. KEY TO HOW FAST FRONT LIFTS N THRU CWA IS HOW FAST THE EDGE ERODES. GFS IS THE MOST PROGRESSIVE W/ THE FRONT...AND THE ETA SLOWER...BECAUSE IT HOLDS THE WEDGE IN UNTIL THU NIGHT...WHILE GFS BREAKS IT DOWN TONIGHT. GIVEN THE FACT THAT THE ETA HISTORICALLY HANDLES DAMMING SITUATIONS BETTER IN THE SHORT TERM THAN THE GFS... AND RECENT IMPROVEMENTS TO THE ETA THAT SHLD HELP IT MAINTAIN THE WEDGE LONGER THAN IT USED TO (AN IMPROVEMENT)...LEANED TOWARD ETA AND MET GDNC IN SHORT TERM. AS FAR AS SENSIBLE WX GOES UPPED POPS TO LKLY ACRS SRN 1/3 OF CWA...W/ SCT SHRA REMAINDER. THEN MAINTAIN CHC SHRA N OF FRONT TSTM S OF FRONT THRU THU...THEN CHC TSTM THU NIGHT AND FRI...W/ FRONT FINALLY TO N OF CWA. INCREASED CLD CVR... KEEPING ENTIRE CWA AT LST M CLDY...AND AS A REULT TWKD HIGHS DWN A BIT...FCST LWS ALRDY WHERE CLOSE TO TDS...SO NO MAJOR ADJUSTMENT THERE. THE RESULT WILL BE BLW NRML TMPS TO CLOSE OUT THE WORK WEEK .EXTENDED...SAT SHLD BE LAST MAINLY GREY DAY...AS BERMUDA HIGH BLDNG IN SHLD DRY THINGS OUT FRM E TO W SAT NIGHT. RETURN OF SUN...AND 850 TEMPS IN UPR TEENS...SPELL ABV NORMAL TEMPS SUN AND MON...W/ APPRCHNG UPR LOW AND ASSOC SFC RFLCTN ALLWNG FOR DIURNAL POPS. WHILE DID NOT CHANGE FCST FOR TUE...THERE SEEMS TO BE A CONSENSUS FOR A CUT OFF LW TO BE ARND THE MID ATLC STATES ON TUE...SO DRY FCST MIGHT BE A BIT OPTIMISTIC...EVEN THOUGH SFC CLD FRNT SHLD BE E OF CWA. .MARINE...STILL A MARKEDLY QUITE SUMMER ON THE MARINE FRONT...WINDS BLW 20 KTS...XCPT ON CSTL WTRS SAT AND SUN DUE TO TIGHTENING PRES GRAD BTWN BLDG IN OF BERMUDA HIGH AND SLW MVNG SFC LOW OVR GRT LKS. .PRELIMINARY TEMPS/POPS... SBY 76 66 77 67 / 30 30 40 30 OXB 74 70 75 70 / 30 30 40 30 WAL 75 71 76 71 / 30 30 40 30 FVX 76 67 79 68 / 50 40 40 30 RIC 77 69 78 70 / 50 40 40 30 PTB 78 68 79 70 / 60 40 40 30 AKQ 78 68 80 69 / 60 50 40 30 PHF 78 69 81 71 / 60 40 40 30 ORF 79 72 80 74 / 60 50 40 30 ECG 80 70 82 72 / 70 50 40 30 .AKQ... .MD...NONE. .VA...NONE. .NC...NONE. MALOIT
MDZ021>025-NCZ012>017-030>032-102-VAZ048-049-060>100-301600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 530 AM EDT WED JUL 30 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN VIRGINIA... NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AND THE LOWER MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE. .DAY ONE...TODAY OTHER THAN SOME SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...POSSIBLY CAUSING LOCALIZED FLOODING...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 33 THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN WAKEFIELD, VA CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT THE FOLLOWING (LOWER CASE): WEATHER.NOAA.GOV/AKQ.
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 102 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:44 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Extensive flooding to secondary roads, as well as portions of Route 13.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Virginia in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Virginia, July 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: 5378156.