Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2003, 2:25 PM EST for Dade County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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, 2:25 PM EST (19:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2003, 3:00 PM EST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Dade County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 19, 12:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 649 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KFFC 191925 TORATL GAC083-192000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 222 PM EST WED MAR 19 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN DADE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 300 PM EST * AT 218 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TRENTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH...THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...TRENTON. TORNADOES HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN NORTHEAST ALABAMA WITH THIS STORM. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW TORNADOES IN HILLY OR MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN ARE HARD TO SEE. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO. 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 3478 8587 3464 8568 3504 8530 3519 8546 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 10:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa | 25 min |
| Mar 19, 10:40 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walker | 35 min |
| Mar 19, 10:52 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa | 23 min |
| Mar 19, 2:57 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dade | 33 min |
| Mar 19, 3:29 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 31 min |
| Mar 19, 3:41 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 34 min |
| Mar 19, 4:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 31 min |
| Mar 19, 4:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 46 min |
| Mar 19, 5:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 38 min |
| Mar 19, 5:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 33 min |
| Mar 19, 5:44 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 46 min |
| Mar 19, 5:46 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 44 min |
| Mar 19, 5:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 41 min |
| Mar 19, 5:57 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee | 33 min |
| Mar 19, 5:59 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee | 31 min |
| Mar 19, 6:06 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Heard | 24 min |
| Mar 19, 6:10 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Polk | 35 min |
| Mar 19, 6:26 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta, Heard | 49 min |
| Mar 19, 6:32 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion | 28 min |
| Mar 19, 6:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 30 min |
| Mar 19, 6:58 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Marion | 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.