Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 171, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2003, 8:16 PM EDT for Baldwin County, Jasper County, Putnam County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 2003, 8:16 PM EDT (00:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2003, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Baldwin County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Putnam County, GA
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 109 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2666 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1050 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WUUS52 KFFC 030016
SVRATL
GAC009-159-237-030100-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
815 PM EDT FRI MAY 2 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
BALDWIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
SOUTHERN JASPER COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
SOUTHERN PUTNAM COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 900 PM EDT
* AT 812 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EATONTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...EATONTON...
MIDWAY-HARDWICK...MILLEDGEVILLE AND MONTICELLO.
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE
EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA.
IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING...WAIT
UNTIL AFTER THE STORM HAS PASSED...AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6.
LAT...LON 3307 8309 3294 8332 3318 8343 3317 8358
3333 8375 3343 8340 3328 8326 3317 8326
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 8:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock, Taliaferro, Warren | 43 min |
| May 2, 8:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Douglas, Paulding | 33 min |
| May 2, 8:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Fulton, Heard | 27 min |
| May 2, 8:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 34 min |
| May 2, 8:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 33 min |
| May 2, 8:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock | 41 min |
| May 2, 8:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett, Rockdale, Walton | 23 min |
| May 2, 8:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts | 47 min |
| May 2, 8:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 30 min |
| May 2, 8:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 43 min |
| May 2, 8:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 26 min |
| May 2, 8:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington | 41 min |
| May 2, 8:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Spalding | 38 min |
| May 2, 8:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Pike | 37 min |
| May 2, 8:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson, Washington | 46 min |
| May 2, 9:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Talbot, Upson | 36 min |
| May 2, 9:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Monroe | 51 min |
| May 2, 9:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Johnson, Laurens, Wilkinson | 45 min |
| May 2, 9:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 67 min |
| May 2, 9:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Monroe, Taylor | 27 min |
| May 2, 9:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Jones | 36 min |
| May 2, 9:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion | 33 min |
| May 2, 9:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 28 min |
| May 2, 9:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon, Peach | 23 min |
| May 2, 9:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 31 min |
| May 2, 10:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee | 27 min |
| May 2, 10:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Pulaski | 25 min |
| May 2, 10:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Schley | 31 min |
| May 2, 10:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Laurens | 30 min |
| May 2, 10:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Pulaski | 37 min |
| May 2, 10:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stewart, Sumter, Webster | 30 min |
| May 2, 10:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Wilcox | 29 min |
| May 2, 10:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Laurens, Montgomery, Telfair, Treutlen, Wheeler | 39 min |
| May 2, 11:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Toombs | 40 min |
| May 2, 11:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly | 32 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.