Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 29
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 5, 2003, 8:10 PM CST for 15 counties in Alabama; 46 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 2003, 8:10 PM CST (02:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 2003, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 61 counties
Autauga County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Lee County, AL, Macon County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Baldwin County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Butts County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Macon 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, Putnam County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Schley County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Troup County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walton County, GA, Wilkes County, GA
Warnings issued inside it
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 8:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers, Randolph, Tallapoosa | 38 min |
| Mar 5, 8:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 32 min |
| Mar 5, 9:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 26 min |
| Mar 5, 9:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Douglas, Fulton | 36 min |
| Mar 5, 9:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Troup | 37 min |
| Mar 5, 9:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 44 min |
| Mar 5, 9:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Fayette | 28 min |
| Mar 5, 9:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Troup | 41 min |
| Mar 5, 9:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pike, Spalding | 35 min |
| Mar 5, 10:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Rockdale | 22 min |
| Mar 5, 10:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts | 30 min |
| Mar 5, 10:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper | 42 min |
| Mar 5, 10:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan | 25 min |
| Mar 5, 10:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene | 34 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 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 6:58 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Chilton, Perry | 62 min |
| Mar 5, 9:49 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb and 16 more | 116 min |
| Mar 6, 3:30 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Butler, Chambers, Chilton, Choctaw and 17 more | 90 min |
| Mar 6, 5:39 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Clarke and 16 more | 96 min |
| Mar 6, 7:37 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Crenshaw, Elmore, Lee and 5 more | 83 min |
| Mar 5, 7:57 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Cherokee and 34 more | 63 min |
| Mar 5, 9:28 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Butts, Clayton, Crawford, DeKalb, Fayette and 19 more | 62 min |
| Mar 5, 9:52 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burke, Columbia, Emanuel, Glascock, Jefferson, Jenkins and 7 more | 53 min |
| Mar 5, 10:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bibb, Burke, Butts, Clarke and 36 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 5, 11:45 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burke, Columbia, Glascock, Jefferson, Lincoln, McDuffie and 4 more | 60 min |
| Mar 6, 2:16 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bibb, Burke, Butts, Clarke and 36 more | 59 min |
| Mar 6, 11:58 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atkinson, Bacon, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks, Camden and 15 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.