Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 368, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 2003, 6:19 PM EDT for Dade County, Walker County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 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 21, 2003, 6:19 PM EDT (22:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2003, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Dade County, GA, Walker County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 1499 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 919 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
969 WUUS52 KFFC 212219 SVRATL GAC083-295-212245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 615 PM EDT MON JUL 21 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN DADE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA WALKER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 645 PM EDT * AT 613 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH LOCATED FROM LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN...TO CEDAR GROVE...TO LOOKOUT...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...CHATTANOOGA VALLEY...CHICKAMAUGA...LINWOOD...LA FAYETTE...LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN...CEDAR GROVE...AND LOOKOUT. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH WELL AHEAD OF THE MAIN RAIN AREA WITHIN THE THUNDERSTORMS AS IT MOVED ACROSS NORTHEAST ALABAMA. THESE WINDS COULD BLOW DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES. MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE NOW 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 3508 8537 3467 8555 3458 8551 3461 8517 $$ RAB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade | 23 min |
| Jul 21, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade | 18 min |
| Jul 21, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Hall | 48 min |
| Jul 21, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jackson | 35 min |
| Jul 21, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks | 21 min |
| Jul 21, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkes | 36 min |
| Jul 21, 7:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 32 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.