Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 2003, 8:27 PM EST for Houston County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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
- Mar 19, 2003, 8:27 PM EST (01:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2003, 9:00 PM EST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Houston County, GA
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 5:50 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 753 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 467 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
703 WUUS52 KFFC 200127 SVRATL GAC153-200200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 826 PM EST WED MAR 19 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN HOUSTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 900 PM EST * AT 824 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR CENTERVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... CENTERVILLE...ROBINS AFB AND WARNER ROBINS. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES SUDDENLY. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO ACT QUICKLY. 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. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE NEAR ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR VERY LARGE HAIL AND STRONG DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS 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 3268 8371 3257 8372 3255 8354 3266 8360 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 7:04 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Taylor | 41 min |
| Mar 19, 7:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 33 min |
| Mar 19, 7:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford | 44 min |
| Mar 19, 7:44 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Taylor | 31 min |
| Mar 19, 7:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb | 26 min |
| Mar 19, 7:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs | 23 min |
| Mar 19, 7:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crawford, Peach | 36 min |
| Mar 19, 7:56 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crawford, Peach | 34 min |
| Mar 19, 8:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb | 25 min |
| Mar 19, 8:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 32 min |
| Mar 19, 8:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 54 min |
| Mar 19, 8:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 50 min |
| Mar 19, 8:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin | 45 min |
| Mar 19, 8:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs | 27 min |
| Mar 19, 9:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock | 50 min |
| Mar 19, 9:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs, Wilkinson | 31 min |
| Mar 19, 9:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington, Wilkinson | 29 min |
| Mar 19, 10:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson | 39 min |
| Mar 19, 11:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 28 min |
| Mar 19, 11:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 31 min |
| Mar 19, 11:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walton | 28 min |
| Mar 19, 11:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 31 min |
| Mar 20, 12:05 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 25 min |
| Mar 20, 12:12 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 33 min |
| Mar 20, 12:20 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Walton | 25 min |
| Mar 20, 12:42 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 33 min |
| Mar 20, 12:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 31 min |
| Mar 20, 1:10 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Henry, Spalding | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 3:19 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Jackson, Walton | 116 min |
| Mar 20, 4:55 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 5:30 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Jackson, Walton | 4 hr |
| Mar 20, 7:07 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair | 23 min |
| Mar 20, 7:19 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Laurens | 4 hr |
| Mar 20, 7:25 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Pulaski | 4 hr |
| Mar 20, 7:29 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Wilcox | 4 hr |
| Mar 20, 7:29 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Johnson | 4 hr |
| Mar 20, 8:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Barrow, Jackson, Walton | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 9:48 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Barrow, Jackson | 6 hr |
| Mar 20, 2:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Treutlen | 37 min |
| Mar 20, 2:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 27 min |
| Mar 20, 2:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair | 23 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.