Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 45
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 13, 2003, 5:55 PM CST for 6 counties in Alabama; 13 counties in Florida; 54 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 13, 2003, 5:55 PM CST (23:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 2003, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 73 counties
Barbour County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Russell County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Grady County, GA, Harris County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Schley County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Worth County, GA
Warnings issued inside it
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 6:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lee | 17 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 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 457 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1223 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 1:58 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Covington, Escambia, Geneva, Houston | 3 hr |
| Mar 13, 9:39 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Calhoun and 40 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 13, 10:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Calhoun, Cherokee and 37 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 13, 12:59 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Calhoun, Chilton and 30 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 13, 2:15 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler and 35 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 13, 3:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 13, 5:33 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Covington | 87 min |
| Mar 13, 8:39 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia and 24 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 13, 8:55 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 13, 12:55 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fannin, Gilmer, Habersham, Murray, Rabun, Stephens and 4 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.