Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 30
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 5, 2003, 11:35 PM EST for 42 counties in Georgia; 20 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 2003, 11:35 PM EST (04:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 2003, 5:00 AM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 62 counties
Baldwin County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Burke County, GA, Butts County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Macon County, GA, Madison County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Peach County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Sumter County, SC
Warnings issued inside it
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 11:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan | 25 min |
| Mar 5, 11:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene | 34 min |
| Mar 6, 12:05 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield | 25 min |
| Mar 6, 12:11 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Sumter | 34 min |
| Mar 6, 12:26 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee | 34 min |
| Mar 6, 12:31 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Newberry | 44 min |
| Mar 6, 12:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 37 min |
| Mar 6, 1:18 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw | 42 min |
| Mar 6, 5:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 30 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, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 177 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, 8:57 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Cherokee and 34 more | 63 min |
| Mar 5, 9:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Butts, Carroll, Chattahoochee, Clarke and 40 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 5, 10:28 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Butts, Clayton, Crawford, DeKalb, Fayette and 19 more | 62 min |
| Mar 5, 10:49 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon, Murray, Walker, Whitfield | 116 min |
| Mar 5, 10:52 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burke, Columbia, Emanuel, Glascock, Jefferson, Jenkins and 7 more | 53 min |
| Mar 6, 12:45 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burke, Columbia, Glascock, Jefferson, Lincoln, McDuffie and 4 more | 60 min |
| Mar 6, 3:16 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bibb, Burke, Butts, Clarke and 36 more | 59 min |
| Mar 6, 4:30 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Troup | 90 min |
| Mar 6, 6:39 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chattahoochee, Clay, Crawford, Harris, Lee, Macon and 12 more | 96 min |
| Mar 6, 8:37 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Chattahoochee, Crawford and 32 more | 83 min |
| Mar 6, 12:58 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atkinson, Bacon, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks, Camden and 15 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 6, 2:34 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dillon, Horry, Marion | 86 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.