1 funnel cloud, 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 Spokane, WA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 17, 9:46 AM PST, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WASHINGTON 946 AM PST MON NOV 17 2003 STARTING DEC 1 2003 NWS SPOKANE WILL ISSUE TWO ROUTINE FORECAST DISCUSSIONS EACH DAY...ONE AT 230 AM AND ANOTHER AT 230 PM. ADDITIONAL DISCUSSIONS WILL BE ISSUED ON AN AS NEEDED BASIS FOR FORECAST CHANGES. PLEASE CONTACT NWS SPOKANE IF YOU HAVE FEEDBACK ON THIS PROPOSED CHANGE. .SYNOPSIS...A WET AND WILD WEEK CAN BE EXPECTED. GUSTY WINDS WILL TAPER OFF TODAY WITH SCATTERED MOUNTAIN SHOWERS. ANOTHER ROUND OF RAIN AND MOUNTAIN SNOW IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP TONIGHT AND CONTINUE ACROSS THE NORTH THROUGH WEDNESDAY. && .DISCUSSION... REST OF TODAY...TROUGH AXIS IS SHIFTING NORTH IDAHO WITH UPSLOPE SHOWERS PERSISTING IN THE CENTRAL PANHANDLE. WILL KEEP WINTER STORM WARNING UP FOR ZONE 1...BUT WITH SHOWERS DECREASING OVER THE NORTH PANHANDLE HAVE ENDED WARNING THERE. DOWN-SLOPING CLEARING SPREADING ACROSS ERN WA. BREEZY WINDS OF 20-30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH WILL GRADUALLY TAPER OFF THIS AFTERNOON. TONIGHT...WARM FRONT PUSHING ACROSS WRN WA OVERNIGHT WITH A GOOD MOISTURE TAP SPREADING OVER THE NRN CASCADES. HEAVY QPF AMOUNTS SEEN IN ALL MODELS. DESPITE THE STRONG WAA...COLD AIR WILL STILL LINGER IN THE LEE OF THE CASCADES WHERE DOWN-SLOPING WINDS WONT SCOUR OUT. SNOW LEVELS WONT CLIMB TO 5K FT TIL AFTER 18Z TUESDAY. WILL SEE ANOTHER SNOW EVENT AND HAVE ISSUED A HEAVY SNOW WARNING FOR WA ZONE 42 FOR TONIGHT INTO TUESDAY MORNING. /RFOX && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... SPOKANE 045 038 052 040 047/ 10 70 60 50 50 COEUR DALENE 044 036 050 039 046/ 40 90 60 50 50 PULLMAN 046 041 053 042 047/ 20 60 40 40 20 LEWISTON 054 042 056 046 052/ 10 40 30 30 10 COLVILLE 049 035 050 039 047/ 40 90 80 60 60 SANDPOINT 043 036 049 039 047/ 60 90 80 80 70 WALLACE 040 034 047 037 048/ 60 90 80 80 70 MOSES LAKE 051 040 057 042 049/ 10 20 10 20 20 WENATCHEE 051 038 055 039 047/ 10 60 10 20 30 OMAK 044 036 048 040 047/ 10 70 70 60 70 && .OTX...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... ID...WINTER STORM WARNING THRU TODAY ID ZONE 4 ABOVE 4000 FT... WA...HEAVY SNOW WARNING FOR TONIGHT TO TUESDAY MIDDAY... &&
IDZ001>004-026-027-WAZ031>038-041>044-181430- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 1230 PM PST MON NOV 17 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN WASHINGTON AND NORTH IDAHO .DAY ONE...TODAY A HEAVY SNOW WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE EAST SLOPES OF THE CASCADES FOR TONIGHT AND TUESDAY. SEE THE LATEST WINTER STORM WARNING (WWUS46 KOTX WSWOTX) FOR DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THE ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MID WEEK. ANOTHER ROUND OF SIGNIFICANT MOUNTAIN SNOW IS POSSIBLE IN THE NORTHEAST WASHINGTON AND IDAHO PANHANDLE STARTING BY TUESDAY MORNING AND CONTINUING INTO WEDNESDAY. IT IS EXPECTED TO BE A WARMER STORM...PUSHING SNOW LEVELS TO THE HIGHEST PEAKS ACROSS THE NORTH. THERE IS ALSO THE POTENTIAL FOR MORE WINDY CONDITIONS. DUE TO THE UNCERTAINTY OF THIS EVENT...NO WEATHER WATCHES HAVE BEEN ISSUED YET. PLEASE CONTINUE TO MONITOR THIS PRODUCT FOR UPDATES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA
1031 AM PST MON NOV 17 2003
TIME(PST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0229 AM GEORGE WA NON-TSTM WND DMG
11/17/03 GRANT THE CANOPY ON A TEXACO
STATION WAS DAMAGED
0328 AM 5 W GEORGE WA NON-TSTM WND DMG
11/17/03 GRANT A BOAT WAS FLIPPED ALONG
WITH SOME ROOF DAMAGE TO
HOMES AT THE SUNLAND
ESTATES.
RFThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
A brief funnel cloud was observed by Grant County officials northeast of Stratford during the afternoon of November 17th.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Washington in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Washington, November 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: 5335176.