Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 248, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2003, 8:44 PM EDT for Harris County, Troup County, Georgia. It was in force for 61 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 7, 2003, 8:44 PM EDT (00:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2003, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Harris County, GA, Troup County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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 7, 3:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 2242 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 809 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.4
- Supercell composite
- 8.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
468 WUUS52 KFFC 080044 SVRATL GAC145-285-080145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 843 PM EDT WED MAY 7 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HARRIS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA SOUTHERN TROUP COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 945 PM EDT * AT 842 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WEST POINT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...HAMILTON... WAVERLY HALL AND WEST POINT. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES SUDDENLY. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO ACT QUICKLY. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS 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 3297 8494 3287 8519 3261 8500 3265 8468 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 8:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Fayette | 3 hr |
| May 7, 8:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 32 min |
| May 7, 8:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Spalding | 46 min |
| May 7, 8:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 55 min |
| May 7, 10:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Troup | 3 hr |
| May 7, 10:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris | 49 min |
| May 7, 11:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris | 25 min |
| May 7, 11:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Talbot | 45 min |
| May 7, 11:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Coweta, Heard | 4 hr |
| May 8, 12:52 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 4 hr |
| May 8, 1:11 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Troup | 3 hr |
| May 8, 3:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 26 min |
| May 8, 3:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Talbot | 39 min |
| May 8, 3:28 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris, Talbot | 47 min |
| May 8, 3:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Heard | 3 hr |
| May 8, 4:15 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Troup | 2 hr |
| May 8, 4:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taylor | 35 min |
| May 8, 4:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 3 hr |
| May 8, 6:15 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Troup | 2 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.