Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2003, 3:29 PM EST for Dade County, Walker County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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, 3:29 PM EST (20:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2003, 4:00 PM EST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Dade County, GA, Walker County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 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 19, 12:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -267 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 479 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 417 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 730 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
168 WFUS52 KFFC 192029 TORATL GAC083-295-192100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 328 PM EST WED MAR 19 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN DADE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA WESTERN WALKER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA * UNTIL 400 PM EST * AT 323 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 22 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LINWOOD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH...THIS DANGEROUS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...LINWOOD AND LA FAYETTE. 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 3455 8575 3443 8558 3475 8522 3489 8544 $$
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, 2:25 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dade | 35 min |
| Mar 19, 2:57 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dade | 33 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.