Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 357, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 2003, 5:18 PM EDT for Bibb County, Houston County, Peach 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 17, 2003, 5:18 PM EDT (21:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 2003, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bibb County, GA, Houston County, GA, Peach County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 1136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 857 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
205 WUUS52 KFFC 172118 SVRATL GAC021-153-225-172145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 518 PM EDT THU JUL 17 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN BIBB COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA NORTHERN HOUSTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA NORTHEASTERN PEACH COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 545 PM EDT * AT 513 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTERVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BYRON... CENTERVILLE...ROBINS AFB AND WARNER ROBINS. 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 3271 8384 3255 8376 3258 8355 3278 8364 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 8:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Pickens | 2 hr |
| Jul 17, 6:17 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly | 88 min |
| Jul 17, 8:34 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Stewart | 86 min |
| Jul 17, 2:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Treutlen | 36 min |
| Jul 17, 2:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 36 min |
| Jul 17, 2:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilcox | 29 min |
| Jul 17, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery | 36 min |
| Jul 17, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Toombs | 26 min |
| Jul 17, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wheeler | 32 min |
| Jul 17, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taylor | 34 min |
| Jul 17, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion | 28 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003
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.