3 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 4 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 7, 4:00 AM EST, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 500 AM EDT MON APR 7 2003 ...UPDATED TO INCLUDE AVIATION DISCUSSION... .OVERVIEW...WEDGE IN PLACE OVER GA WITH LOW AND TRAILING CDFNT OVERLOWER MS VALLEY WITH WSW FLOW ALOFT. GFS CONSISTENT BETWEEN RUNDS, BUT ETA/ECMWF/UKMET SLOWER WITH SOLUTIONS. PREFERED. WILL LET ESF DIE. WHILE WILL BE AROUND AN INCH OF RAIN TOTAL THIS MORNING, NOT ENOUGH FOR FLOODING. .SHORT TERM...AGAIN VERY TOUGH FORECAST DUE MODELS CHANGING AND NOT CONSISTENT WITHIN SELVES. SCENARIO FOR WEDGE TO WEAKEN TODAY WITH LOW LEVEL BECOMING WESTERLY NOON ON AS WARM FRONT MOVES SLOWLY TO NORTH TODAY. RW/TRW OVER AL AND N GA ASSOCIATED WITH SHORTWAVE ALOFT...WAVE WILL MOVE NORTHEAST TO VA BY TONIGHT. WEDGE RETURNS TUESDAY AM. SURFACE LOW DEVELOPS TUESDAY UNDER UPPER CUT OFF LOW AND THEN MOVES OVER SOUTH GA TUESDAY NIGHT...THEN CONTINUES NE. TEMPS...WENT WITH COOLER MAV HIGHS AS FEEL MODELS NOT HANDLING WEDGE WELL. .EXTENDED... BIG QUESTION IS WHAT DOES SURFACE LOW DO AS PREFFERED SCENARIO OF UPPER LOW SLOWLING DOWN AND MOVING ACROSS GEORGIA WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY. THIS POSSIBLY CAUSES SURFACE LOW OW LINGER ON COAST AND DEVELOP A TROF TO WEST...ESSENTIALLY RETROGRADING BACK TO WEST UNDER APPROACHING UPPER COUT OF LOW...WHILE AT 850-700MB A LOW DEVELOPS...CAUSING THE POSSIBILITY OF HEAVY RAIN UNDER THE 850MB + LOW THAT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE NC/GA/TN AREA WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY. THUS ADDED POPPS TO WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. FROM THIS COMES QUESTION OF ASSOCIATED POSSIBLE FLOODING NORTH TUESDAY NIGHT AND AGAIN WEDNESDAY NIGHT. WILL LEAVE DECISION TO DAY SHIFT AS MODELS NOT REALLY DEFINIITVE ON GUIDANCE. ALOS QUESTION OF LOWS ON THURSDAY MORNING. TEMPS WILL BE COOLER AS UPPER LOW PASSES, BUT TO BELOW 40? THIS IMPLIES POSSIBLE FROST, BUT TOO EARLY TO TELL YET. JUST KEEP IN MIND. REMINDER OF EXTENDED LOOKS WARMER AND DRY...FOR NOW. .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... KATL 62 74 59 68 / 70 60 30 70 KAHN 59 73 58 65 / 70 60 20 70 KGVL 59 72 56 63 / 70 60 20 60 KRMG 59 75 56 68 / 99 60 50 50 KCSG 65 78 63 73 / 30 40 50 80 KMCN 65 78 63 73 / 30 40 30 80 .ATL WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. .AVIATION DISCUSSION... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOW CEILINGS AND VARIABLE WINDS THIS MORNING. THERE IS A WEAK WEDGE OVER NE GEORGIA WHICH SHOULD BREAK DOWN EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. ONCE THIS HAPPENS EXPECT WINDS TO BE MORE WESTERLY BY THIS EVENING AND THE LOW CLOUDS SHOULD LIFT A BIT. ALSO EXPECTING A BREAK IN THE PRECIP BETWEEN 18Z MON AND 06Z TUE AS THERE IS ABOUT 6 TO 12 OUR LAG BETWEEN 1ST WAVE MOVING INTO THE AREA NOW AND SECOND WAVE THAT WILL BE OVER THE STATE LATE TONIGHT. THIS IS ALSO ABOUT THE SAME TIME THAT THE WEDGE IS EXPECTED TO LOOSEN ITS GRIP OVER NE GA.
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-071600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 600 AM EDT MON APR 7 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TODAY A FEW POSSIBLY SEVERE. .SYNOPSIS... HIGH PRESSURE OVER NORTHEAST GEORGIA TODAY WILL GIVE WAY TO A COLD FRONT MOVING INTO NORTH GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. INCREASED MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY ACROSS THE STATE WILL BRING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA. A FEW MAY BECOME SEVERE. .PRIMARY HAZARD... THE PRIMARY HAZARD WITH THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. .DISCUSSION... A LARGE COMPLEX OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER ALABAMA IS ASSOCIATED WITH AN UNSTABLE AIR MASS AND A STRONG UPPER-LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING EAST. MARGINAL INSTABILITY IS EXPECTED OVER GEORGIA TODAY WITH CAPES RANGING FROM 1000 TO 1200 AND LIFTED INDICES AROUND MINUS 2 TO MINUS 3. THE MOST UNSTABLE AIR OVER GEORGIA WILL BE OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE STATE. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AN INCH ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA TODAY. .FOR SPOTTERS... SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD MONITOR THE SITUATION OVERNIGHT AND REMAIN ALERT IN CASE ACTIVATION IS NEEDED. .DAY TWO THROUGH DAY SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. HEAVY RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TUESDAY. 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.
GAZ076-071045- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 553 AM EDT MON APR 7 2003 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS IN JEFFERSON COUNTY UNTIL 645 AM EDT... AT 540 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTH OF STAPLETON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD BE ENDING OVER THE AREA BY 645 AM EDT. SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERTS ARE ISSUED WHEN WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO REACH 40 TO 50 MPH...HAIL IS EXPECTED TO BE LESS THAN THE SIZE OF DIMES...OR SIGNIFICANT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING IS EXPECTED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
The Wrens Police Department reported quarter-sized hail.
The Troup county 911 center reported that very heavy rain was resulting in street flooding. Several streets in the city had water standing on them.
The Troup county Emergency Management Director and the Troup county Road Department reported that there was substantial flooding ongoing in the county. Numerous roads were flooded and several creeks were out of their banks. At least three homes were also flooded. Several roads had to be closed, including John Loveless Road and Lower Big Springs Road.
The Greenville Water Department reported that numerous roads were flooded in the area.
The Pike County Road Department reported that numerous roads across the county were flooded with water flowing across them.
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: 5349602, 5348808, 5348807, 5348805, 5348806.