2 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Aug 27, 2:30 PM EST, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 330 PM EDT WED AUG 27 2003 CURRENT RADAR AND SATELLITE LOOP SHOWS SHOWERS POPPING UP ACROSS THE AREA. CONTINUED HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT LOOKS LIKE IT WILL HANG ACROSS THE STATE THROUGH FRIDAY. IT WILL BEGIN TO DRIFT INTO THE WESTERN ATLANTIC TONIGHT SO MAY SEE A FEW MORE SHOWERS ACROSS THE STATE TOMORROW THAN TODAY. MODEL DATA IS COMING IN NICELY NOW AND IT DOES NOT LOOK LIKE MANY CHANGES NEED TO BE MADE TO THE CURRENT FORECAST. MODELS STILL SHOWING COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH THE STATE EARLY NEXT WEEK. WILL CONTINUE TO SEE NORMAL AFTERNOON AND EVENING TSRA/SHRA THROUGH THE WEEKEND. TEMPS WILL REMAIN A BIT ABOVE SEASONAL NORMS THROUGH FRI AS RIDGE IS RETROGRADING. TEMPS WILL GET DOWN AROUND NORMAL TOWARDS THE WEEKEND. .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... KATL 71 89 71 89 / 20 20 20 20 KAHN 71 91 70 90 / 20 20 20 20 KGVL 70 89 69 89 / 20 20 20 20 KRMG 71 90 71 90 / 20 20 20 20 KCSG 73 92 73 92 / 20 20 20 20 KMCN 73 91 72 91 / 20 20 20 20 .ATL WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. 01
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 600 AM EDT WED AUG 27 2003 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-271438- 600 AM EDT WED AUG 27 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY. ...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE OVER EXTREME WESTERN GEORGIA AND MOUNTAINS TODAY... .SYNOPSIS... HIGH PRESSURE OVER GEORGIA ALOFT AND AT THE SURFACE WILL SHIFT SLIGHTLY EAST TODAY. .PRIMARY HAZARD... FOR ANY STORMS THAT ARE ABLE TO FORM...OCCASIONAL LIGHTING WILL BE THE PRIMARY HAZARD. THE STORMS WILL BE CONFINED TO AN AREA WEST AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM ALBANY TO ATLANTA TO GAINESVILLE TODAY AND WILL BE EXTREMELY ISOLATED IN NATURE. .DISCUSSION...THE HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT THAT HAS KEPT THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY TO A MININUM OVER GEORGIA FOR THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS WILL START TO SHIFT EAST. THIS WILL WEAKEN THE STABILIZING INFLUENCE OF THE HIGH PRESSURE OVER GEORGIA BUT NOT ENOUGH TO ALLOW ANYTHING MORE THAN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM IN THE WESTERNMOST PORTIONS OF GEORGIA. DUE TO EHNANCED LIFT IN THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE THERE. BECAUSE OF THE WEAK WIND PROFILES AND WARM AIR ALOFT...THE FEW STORMS THAT MANAGE TO FORM ANYWHERE IN THESE AREAS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. .FOR SPOTTERS... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. .DAY TWO THROUGH DAY SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE EACH DAY. FOR THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK AND OTHER WEATHER INFORMATION...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WEATHER.GOV...AND CLICK ON GEORGIA. LPR
GAZ019-020-272100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 425 PM EDT WED AUG 27 2003 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS IN EXTREME NORTHWEST BARTOW AND WESTERN FLOYD COUNTY UNTIL 500 PM EDT... AT 423 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM ROME TO ADAIRSVILLE...MOVING SLOWLY EAST AT 10 MPH. SMALL HAIL...WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. IN ADDITION...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL MAY PRODUCE SOME PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS... ESPECIALLY ALONG STATE ROUTE 53 BETWEEN ROME AND ADAIRSVILLE. DRIVERS SHOULD USE CAUTION AND ALLOW EXTRA SPACE BETWEEN VEHICLES. 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 Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 54 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:46 UTC.
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
The Morristown, Tennessee National Weather Service (NWS) Forecast Office relayed a report they had received from the public of penny-sized hail.
The Troup county 911 center reported penny-sized hail on Georgia Highway 109 W near Abbottsford Road.
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, August 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: 5374601, 5374602.