Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 215
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 2, 2003, 6:25 PM EDT for 64 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 2003, 6:25 PM EDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2003, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 64 counties
Baldwin County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Butts County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Harris County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Macon County, GA, Madison County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Schley County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Troup County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:28 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.
Warnings issued inside it
42 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 31 min |
| May 2, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton | 28 min |
| May 2, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Rockdale, Walton | 39 min |
| May 2, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pike | 22 min |
| May 2, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 37 min |
| May 2, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe | 47 min |
| May 2, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Newton | 53 min |
| May 2, 7:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry, Spalding | 55 min |
| May 2, 7:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Morgan, Putnam | 43 min |
| May 2, 7:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Spalding | 39 min |
| May 2, 8:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock, Taliaferro, Warren | 43 min |
| May 2, 8:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Douglas, Paulding | 33 min |
| May 2, 8:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Jasper, Putnam | 44 min |
| May 2, 8:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Fulton, Heard | 27 min |
| May 2, 8:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 34 min |
| May 2, 8:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 33 min |
| May 2, 8:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett, Rockdale, Walton | 23 min |
| May 2, 8:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts | 47 min |
| May 2, 8:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 30 min |
| May 2, 8:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 43 min |
| May 2, 8:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 26 min |
| May 2, 8:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Washington | 41 min |
| May 2, 8:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Spalding | 38 min |
| May 2, 8:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Pike | 37 min |
| May 2, 8:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson, Washington | 46 min |
| May 2, 9:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Talbot, Upson | 36 min |
| May 2, 9:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Monroe | 51 min |
| May 2, 9:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Johnson, Laurens, Wilkinson | 45 min |
| May 2, 9:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Monroe, Taylor | 27 min |
| May 2, 9:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Jones | 36 min |
| May 2, 9:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion | 33 min |
| May 2, 9:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 28 min |
| May 2, 9:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon, Peach | 23 min |
| May 2, 9:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 31 min |
| May 2, 10:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee | 27 min |
| May 2, 10:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Pulaski | 25 min |
| May 2, 10:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Schley | 31 min |
| May 2, 10:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Laurens | 30 min |
| May 2, 10:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Pulaski | 37 min |
| May 2, 10:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stewart, Sumter, Webster | 30 min |
| May 2, 10:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Laurens, Montgomery, Telfair, Treutlen, Wheeler | 39 min |
| May 2, 11:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Dooly | 32 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -255 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1158 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 2:23 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Rabun | 2 hr |
| May 2, 2:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banks, Franklin, Habersham, Hall, Hart, Rabun and 1 more | 5 hr |
| May 2, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Clayton and 23 more | 5 hr |
| May 2, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Quitman, Troup | 4 hr |
| May 2, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Columbia, Glascock, McDuffie, Richmond | 5 hr |
| May 2, 5:43 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Chattahoochee and 36 more | 92 min |
| May 2, 5:57 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay | 93 min |
| May 2, 6:05 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Heard | 5 hr |
| May 2, 6:36 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Clayton and 23 more | 84 min |
| May 2, 7:17 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Glascock, Richmond | 88 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.