Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 302, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2003, 11:50 PM EDT for Bartow County, Gordon County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 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
- Jun 16, 2003, 11:50 PM EDT (03:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2003, 12:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bartow County, GA, Gordon County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:52 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 nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 1038 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KFFC 170350 SVRATL GAC015-129-170430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1150 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BARTOW COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA SOUTHERN GORDON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 1230 AM EDT * AT 1147 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PLAINVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... ADAIRSVILLE...PLAINVILLE AND WHITE. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. THIS STORM CONTAINS VERY HEAVY RAIN. EXPECT 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN IN LESS THAN AN HOUR. THIS CAN CAUSE BRIEF FLOODING OF ROADS. EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. AVOID USING TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES. 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 3449 8504 3432 8510 3420 8468 3441 8461 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 9:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton | 28 min |
| Jun 16, 10:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 36 min |
| Jun 16, 11:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 23 min |
| Jun 17, 2:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett | 3 hr |
| Jun 17, 4:51 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Fayette | 114 min |
| Jun 17, 5:29 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 2 hr |
| Jun 17, 6:47 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette | 2 hr |
| Jun 17, 7:22 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 98 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.