Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches in 2003
Tornado Watch 614
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jul 1, 2003, 6:00 PM EDT for 27 counties in Georgia; 21 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 2003, 6:00 PM EDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2003, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 48 counties
Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Candler County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Long County, GA, Madison County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Screven County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Warren County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Beaufort County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Jasper County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Sumter County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:00 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
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 7:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Jenkins, Screven | 48 min |
| Jul 1, 9:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Screven | 67 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 460 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1014 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WWUS20 KWNS 012200
SEL4
SPC WW 012200
GAZ000-SCZ000-CWZ000-020200-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 614
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
600 PM EDT TUE JUL 1 2003
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
EASTERN GEORGIA
CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SOUTH CAROLINA
COASTAL WATERS
EFFECTIVE THIS TUESDAY EVENING FROM 600 PM UNTIL 1000 PM EDT.
TORNADOES...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.
THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 95 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST
OF A LINE FROM 40 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF COLUMBIA SOUTH CAROLINA
TO 75 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SAVANNAH GEORGIA.
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.
OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 613...
DISCUSSION...POTENTIAL WILL CONTINUE FOR SUPERCELLS TO MOVE/DEVELOP
EWD ALONG AND S OF SLOW-MOVING WARM FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH T.D. BILL.
STRONG PRESSURE FALLS NE OF T.D.CIRCULATION CENTER...40 KT WSWLY
MID LEVEL FLOW...VERY MOIST BOUNDARY LAYER INFLOW AND SIGNIFICANT
LOW LEVEL VEERING ALL SUGGEST THREAT FOR TORNADOES...MAINLY INVOF
WARM FRONT...THROUGH THIS EVENING.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXTREME
TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI
WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 450. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 21035.
...CORFIDI
340,0800 312,0784 312,0815 340,0832SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 8:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay, Decatur, Early and 5 more | 113 min |
| Jul 1, 2:25 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Calhoun, Carroll, Chattahoochee, Clay, Coweta and 18 more | 9 hr |
| Jul 1, 5:26 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Calhoun, Carroll, Chattahoochee, Clay, Coweta and 17 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 8:28 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley and 75 more | 62 min |
| Jul 1, 10:40 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Bibb, Brooks, Butts, Calhoun, Carroll and 60 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 1, 1:57 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chattahoochee, Harris, Muscogee, Quitman, Stewart | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 3:49 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill and 105 more | 116 min |
| Jul 1, 4:05 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill and 74 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 1, 5:26 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Chatham, Effingham, Liberty | 94 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.