Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 800
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 22, 2003, 3:10 PM EDT for 43 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 2003, 3:10 PM EDT (19:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2003, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 43 counties
Baldwin County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Butts County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Harris County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Schley County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs | 51 min |
| Jul 22, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon | 48 min |
| Jul 22, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 27 min |
| Jul 22, 4:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Jones | 118 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 491 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 876 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 12:31 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Chattahoochee and 55 more | 119 min |
| Jul 22, 12:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Cherokee, Clarke and 38 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 22, 2:15 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts and 54 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 22, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Quitman | 5 hr |
| Jul 22, 3:59 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Bacon, Ben Hill, Bleckley, Bulloch, Burke and 31 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.