3 hail, 2 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Atlanta, GA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 21, 10:00 AM EST, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1100 AM EDT MON APR 21 2003 JUST ISSUING A QUICK UPDATE TO LOWER MAX TEMPERATURES MOST AREAS... SINCE EXTENSIVE CLOUD COVER AND PRECIPITATION SHOULD OFFSET SOME OF THE EFFECTS OF THE WEDGE FINALLY BREAKING. TWEAKED POPS A LITTLE HERE AND THERE TO FIT CURRENT AND EXPECTED RADAR TRENDS. ALSO WANTED TO GET MORNING DENSE FOG ADVISORY WORDING OUT OF THE ZONES. .ATL WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. MSS
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-211600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1109 AM EDT MON APR 21 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY. FEW THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. .SYNOPSIS... A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE FROM NORTHWEST GEORGIA TO SOUTH GEORGIA BY TUESDAY MORNING. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRECEDED AND ACCOMPANY THE FRONT. .PRIMARY HAZARD...THE PRIMARY HAZARD FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS PRODUCING RAINFALL TOTALS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. .DISCUSSION... MODERATELY UNSTABLE AIR...WITH LIFTED INDEXES AROUND MINUS TWO TO MINUS FOUR...CAPES OF 1000 TO 1400...AND HELICITIES AROUND 100...AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT WILL LEAD TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. EXTENSIVE CLOUDINESS OVER GEORGIA WILL LIMIT DIURNAL HEATING. THIS COMBINED WITH WEAK UPPER AIR SUPPORT WILL LIMIT THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE DEVELOPMENT TO BELOW THAT INDICATED BY THE VARIOUS INDICES. THE STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH NORTH GEORGIA PRIMARILY BY MID AFTERNOON AND THROUGH CENTRAL GEORGIA IN THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW COULD LINGER OVER EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA INTO TONIGHT. .FOR SPOTTERS... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. .DAY TWO THROUGH DAY SEVEN... THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY...BUT ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. OTHERWISE THERE IS NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. FOR THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK AND OTHER WEATHER INFORMATION...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WEATHER.GOV...AND CLICK ON GEORGIA.
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 55 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:21 UTC.
3 hail, 2 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
The Gwinnett Daily Post of Lawrenceville reported that lightning struck a home on Park Road. However, no monetary damage was suffered.
The Gwinnett Daily Post of Lawrenceville reported that lightning struck a home on Cheyenne Lane. The lightning started a fire in the wall of the house. However, the fire was quickly extinguished and damage to the house was minimal.
The public reported quarter-sized hail from Oak Mountain to Carrollton.
A relative of a NWS employee reported mostly penny, but a few hailstones the size of a quarter on Memorial Drive at Interstate 285.
The public reported penny-sized hail.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Georgia in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, April 2003
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5348812, 5348887, 5348809, 5348810, 5348811.