Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 5, 2003, 10:34 PM EST for Meriwether County, Troup County, Georgia. It was in force for 41 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 5, 2003, 10:34 PM EST (03:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 2003, 11:15 PM EST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Meriwether County, GA, Troup County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 9:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 717 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
430 WFUS52 KFFC 060334 TORATL GAC199-285-060415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1034 PM EST WED MAR 5 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN MERIWETHER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA EASTERN TROUP COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA * UNTIL 1115 PM EST * AT 1032 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREENVILLE. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...GREENVILLE. A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME. TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID 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 3313 8508 3300 8493 3302 8463 3314 8465 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 8:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Morgan, Newton | 35 min |
| Mar 5, 8:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 27 min |
| Mar 5, 9:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks | 27 min |
| Mar 5, 9:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 32 min |
| Mar 5, 10:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 26 min |
| Mar 5, 10:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Douglas, Fulton | 36 min |
| Mar 5, 10:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 37 min |
| Mar 5, 10:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 44 min |
| Mar 5, 10:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Fayette | 28 min |
| Mar 5, 10:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pike, Spalding | 35 min |
| Mar 5, 11:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Rockdale | 22 min |
| Mar 5, 11:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts | 30 min |
| Mar 5, 11:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper | 42 min |
| Mar 5, 11:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan | 25 min |
| Mar 5, 11:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene | 34 min |
| Mar 6, 3:10 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Floyd | 3 hr |
| Mar 6, 4:05 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bartow | 3 hr |
| Mar 6, 4:30 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Forsyth | 3 hr |
| Mar 6, 4:55 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Hall | 3 hr |
| Mar 6, 5:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 30 min |
| Mar 6, 9:10 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Polk | 4 hr |
| Mar 6, 10:14 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 4 hr |
| Mar 6, 4:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair, Wheeler | 36 min |
| Mar 6, 4:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery | 19 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.