Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 59
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 19, 2003, 5:30 PM EST for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 2003, 5:30 PM EST (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2003, 11:00 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 79 counties
Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Dawson County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Hart County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Madison County, GA, Murray County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, White County, GA, Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Macon County, NC, Madison County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Swain County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Anderson County, TN, Blount County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Carter County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Greene County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Polk County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Union County, TN, Washington County, TN, City of Bristol, VA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 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
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 5:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Polk | 44 min |
| Mar 19, 8:32 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Anderson, Pickens | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 9:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Elbert | 53 min |
| Mar 19, 9:34 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Greenville, Spartanburg | 4 hr |
| Mar 19, 9:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson | 65 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -267 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 479 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 417 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 730 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 12:53 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atkinson, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun and 27 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 9:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Walker | 4 hr |
| Mar 19, 10:28 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker | 2 hr |
| Mar 19, 10:48 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Burke, Butts, Clarke and 40 more | 117 min |
| Mar 19, 12:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Gordon, Walker and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 19, 12:58 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dade | 2 hr |
| Mar 19, 1:59 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atkinson, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun and 30 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 2:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carroll, Haralson, Heard, Paulding, Polk, Troup | 6 hr |
| Mar 19, 3:06 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dade | 114 min |
| Mar 19, 4:35 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Calhoun and 31 more | 115 min |
| Mar 19, 4:52 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Gordon, Haralson and 3 more | 113 min |
| Mar 19, 5:50 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Ben Hill, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Calhoun and 71 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 19, 6:32 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Camden, Charlton | 118 min |
| Mar 19, 8:10 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Franklin, Lincoln and 8 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.