Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 417, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2003, 9:39 PM EDT for Banks County, Hall County, Jackson County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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
- Aug 4, 2003, 9:39 PM EDT (01:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2003, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Banks County, GA, Hall County, GA, Jackson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:39 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 2177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 868 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
738 WUUS52 KFFC 050139 SVRATL GAC011-139-157-050215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 939 PM EDT MON AUG 4 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HALL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA BANKS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA NORTHERN JACKSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 1015 PM EDT * AT 934 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF WESTSIDE TO HOMER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...COMMERCE... GAINESVILLE...GAINESVILLE MILLS...GILLSVILLE...HOMER...LULA... MAYSVILLE...PENDERGRASS...TALMO AND WESTSIDE. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES 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 3440 8399 3446 8340 3415 8338 3412 8381 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 8:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 24 min |
| Aug 4, 9:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee | 29 min |
| Aug 4, 9:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks | 32 min |
| Aug 4, 9:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb | 28 min |
| Aug 4, 10:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Hall, Jackson, Madison | 42 min |
| Aug 4, 10:39 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Banks | 2 hr |
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.