Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 711
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 10, 2003, 11:20 AM EDT for 5 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 2003, 11:20 AM EDT (15:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2003, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 145 counties
Baldwin County, GA, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Burke County, GA, Butts County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Hart County, GA, Henry County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Madison County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Murray County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Pike County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Alexander County, NC, Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Lincoln 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, Wilkes County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC, Anderson County, TN, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Carter County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Fentress 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, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Polk County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Scott 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), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:24 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
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 11:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oconee | 35 min |
| Jul 10, 11:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson | 47 min |
| Jul 10, 2:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 62 min |
| Jul 10, 2:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Dawson, Pickens | 114 min |
| Jul 10, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 41 min |
| Jul 10, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Barnwell | 27 min |
| Jul 10, 3:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg | 23 min |
| Jul 10, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 31 min |
| Jul 10, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 25 min |
| Jul 10, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Morgan, Scott | 65 min |
| Jul 10, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 45 min |
| Jul 10, 5:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 87 min |
| Jul 10, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Campbell, Roane | 39 min |
| Jul 10, 5:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 97 min |
| Jul 10, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamilton, Meigs | 45 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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 1832 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 694 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 10:20 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Catoosa, Cherokee, Clarke, Dawson and 26 more | 85 min |
| Jul 10, 12:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Haralson and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 10, 2:33 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Burke, Butts and 66 more | 117 min |
| Jul 10, 5:38 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banks, Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Cobb and 27 more | 37 min |
| Jul 10, 7:53 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fannin, Murray, Towns | 97 min |
| Jul 9, 9:23 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Cumberland, Currituck and 15 more | 97 min |
| Jul 10, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay and 11 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 10, 11:23 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Davidson and 33 more | 97 min |
| Jul 10, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bland, Buchanan, Dickenson, Lee, Russell, Scott and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 10, 6:25 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albemarle, Alleghany, Amelia, Amherst, Appomattox, Augusta and 51 more | 65 min |
| Jul 10, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Albemarle, Alleghany, Amherst, Appomattox, Augusta, Bath and 52 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 10, 6:57 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bland, Buchanan, Dickenson, Highland, Lee, Russell and 7 more | 93 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.