Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 339, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2003, 7:10 PM EDT for Gordon County, Pickens County, Georgia. It was in force for 50 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, 7:10 PM EDT (23:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2003, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Gordon County, GA, Pickens County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:13 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 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 132 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.
000
WUUS52 KFFC 132310
SVRATL
GAC129-227-140000-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
709 PM EDT SUN JUL 13 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
PICKENS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA
EXTREME NORTHEASTERN GORDON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 800 PM EDT
* AT 709 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF RANGER...MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 10 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...RANGER AND
TALKING ROCK.
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 70 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.
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 3459 8470 3458 8465 3455 8465 3455 8438
3447 8455 3448 8465 3450 8475 3452 8488
3456 8482 3461 8473
$$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, 12:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Monroe | 27 min |
| 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, 7:16 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 |
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.