Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 173
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 25, 2003, 9:00 PM CDT for 15 counties in Alabama; 12 counties in Florida; 35 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 25, 2003, 9:00 PM CDT (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2003, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 62 counties
Baldwin County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Butler County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Pike County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Escambia County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Clay County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Grady County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Macon County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Schley County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Worth County, GA
Warnings issued inside it
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly | 34 min |
| Apr 25, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 46 min |
| Apr 25, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Early, Miller | 38 min |
| Apr 26, 12:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Baker, Mitchell | 57 min |
| Apr 26, 1:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Grady | 38 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 396 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -226 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 713 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 7:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 113 min |
| Apr 25, 7:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Russell | 54 min |
| Apr 25, 11:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 96 min |
| Apr 26, 1:12 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Houston | 63 min |
| Apr 25, 10:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Highlands, Hillsborough, Manatee and 4 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 26, 9:53 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie and 14 more | 2 hr |
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.