1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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 Blacksburg, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 19, 8:30 PM EST, 2 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG, VA 830 PM EST WED NOV 19 2003 .DISCUSSION... STILL AN ISOLD SHRA OR TWO OUT ACROSS THE PIEDMONT OTRW IR PICS SHOWING RH EXITING AS REMNANT OF UPPER LOW PUSHES EWD. EXPECT THIS TREND TO CONT OVERNIGHT WITH SLOW CLEARING EDGING ACROSS THE ERN ZONES BY MIDNIGHT. ONLY EXCEPTION POSSIBLY WITH UPSLOPE CLOUDS LINGERING BUT EVEN THERE GUIDANCE SHOWING RH FADING OVERNGT AS EXTENSIVE AREA OF DRY AIR ADVECTS IN. OTRW BIGGEST CONCERN WITH WIND SPEEDS ACROSS THE SW ZONES WHERE GUIDANCE SHOWING PLENTY OF SUBSIDENCE AND A DECENT JET THRU THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. GIVEN SATURATED GROUND...EXPECT MAY SEE MORE TREES COME DOWN EVEN WITH ADVISORY SPEEDS...SO A BIT LEARY OF NOT HAVING A WARNING OVERNIGHT. THUS WILL MONITOR FOR A LAST SECOND UPGRADE OTRW WILL LET THE ADVISORY RIDE. SINCE UPDATED EARLIER FORECAST ON TRACK...WILL HOLD ON ANOTHER REVISION ATTM. && .RNK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NC...WIND ADVISORY TONIGHT FOR NCZ001>002-018. VA...WIND ADVISORY TONIGHT FOR VAZ015>017. WV...NONE. && JH
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 619 AM EST WED NOV 19 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA... WESTERN AND CENTRAL VIRGINIA...AS WELL AS NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA. NCZ001>006-018>020-VAZ007-009>020-022>024-032>035-043>047-058-059- WVZ042>045-191118- ALLEGHANY VA-ALLEGHANY NC-AMHERST VA-APPOMATTOX VA-ASHE NC-BATH VA- BEDFORD VA-BLAND VA-BOTETOURT VA-BUCKINGHAM VA-CAMPBELL VA- CARROLL VA-CASWELL NC-CHARLOTTE VA-CRAIG VA-FLOYD VA-FRANKLIN VA- GILES VA-GRAYSON VA-GREENBRIER WV-HALIFAX VA-HENRY VA-MERCER WV- MONROE WV-MONTGOMERY VA-PATRICK VA-PITTSYLVANIA VA-PULASKI VA- ROANOKE VA-ROCKBRIDGE VA-ROCKINGHAM NC-SMYTH VA-STOKES NC-SUMMERS WV- SURRY NC-TAZEWELL VA-WATAUGA NC-WILKES NC-WYTHE VA-YADKIN NC- 619 AM EST WED NOV 19 2003 .DAY ONE... A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL BE PASSING THROUGH THE REGION BY LATE AFTERNOON. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. PLEASE SEE THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...SPSRNK...FOR DETAILS ON THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. A FLOOD WATCH IS ALSO STILL IN EFFECT THROUGH TODAY. PLEASE SEE THE LATEST FLOOD WATCH STATEMENT...FFARNK...OR WARNINGS FOR DETAILS ON THE FLOOD THREAT. THE LATEST PRODUCTS CAN BE VIEWED ON THE WEB AT WWW.ERH.NOAA.GOV/ER/RNK .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. JJ
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Moderate flooding occurred along the Greenbrier River at Alderson. The river crested just under 3 feet above flood stage at 930 am on the 20th.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in West Virginia in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in West Virginia, 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: 5328793.