Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 326, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2003, 12:48 PM EDT for Lamar County, Monroe County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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
- Jul 13, 2003, 12:48 PM EDT (16:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2003, 1:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Lamar County, GA, Monroe County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 1654 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 744 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WUUS52 KFFC 131648
SVRATL
GAC171-207-131715-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1245 PM EDT SUN JUL 13 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
MONROE COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA
EASTERN LAMAR COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA
* UNTIL 115 PM EDT
* AT 1241 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM BARNESVILLE TO FORSYTH AND STROUDS...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
BARNESVILLE...FORSYTH...STROUDS AND RUSSELLVILLE.
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 65 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 ALSO 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 3287 8413 3300 8412 3318 8416 3312 8381
3292 8376 3283 8388 3284 8399
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 8:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 29 min |
| Jul 12, 10:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 30 min |
| Jul 12, 11:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 33 min |
| Jul 13, 12:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 20 min |
| Jul 13, 1:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 28 min |
| Jul 13, 2:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Paulding | 28 min |
| Jul 13, 2:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Paulding | 31 min |
| Jul 13, 2:45 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Paulding | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 3:03 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Gordon | 117 min |
| Jul 13, 3:51 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Floyd | 114 min |
| Jul 13, 4:25 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bartow | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 5:09 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 5:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Polk | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 1:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Monroe | 25 min |
| Jul 13, 1:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb | 30 min |
| Jul 13, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 40 min |
| Jul 13, 4:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Marion | 85 min |
| Jul 13, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee | 28 min |
| Jul 13, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Union | 30 min |
| Jul 13, 6:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 86 min |
| Jul 13, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 23 min |
| Jul 13, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Emanuel, Fulton | 34 min |
| Jul 13, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa | 23 min |
| Jul 13, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 36 min |
| Jul 13, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 33 min |
| Jul 13, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer | 55 min |
| Jul 13, 6:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa | 36 min |
| Jul 13, 7:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Whitfield | 113 min |
| Jul 13, 7:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Webster | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon, Pickens | 50 min |
| Jul 13, 7:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Murray | 119 min |
| Jul 13, 7:22 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Gilmer | 113 min |
| Jul 13, 7:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Pickens | 26 min |
| Jul 13, 7:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Gordon | 35 min |
| Jul 13, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 46 min |
| Jul 13, 7:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Floyd, Gordon, Pickens | 115 min |
| Jul 13, 7:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson | 106 min |
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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.