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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 20, 2003, 12:20 AM EST for Walton County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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 20, 2003, 12:20 AM EST (05:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2003, 12:45 AM EST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Walton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 12:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 85 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.
584 WFUS52 KFFC 200520 TORATL GAC297-200545- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1220 AM EST THU MAR 20 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WALTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 1245 AM EST * AT 1215 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER WALNUT GROVE. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BETWEEN... LOGANVILLE...MONROE AND WALNUT GROVE. TAKE COVER NOW TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO. IT MAY BE TOO LATE. 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 3388 8361 3371 8382 3379 8396 3391 8382 $$
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, 8:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston | 33 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, 12:42 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 |
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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.