1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 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 Jul 1, 4:58 PM EST, 2 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 250 PM EDT TUE JUL 1 2003 QUITE BUSY WITH FLOODING AND THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER...BIG STORY IS REMNANTS OF TS BILL. HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO FALL ACROSS MUCH OF THE CWA AND WILL THEREFORE CONTINUE THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH WHICH WILL EXPIRE AT 11 PM...THIS WILL NEED WATCHING AS SURFACE LOW HAS SLOWED IN RESPONSE TO UPPER TROUGH MOVING THROUGH THE MIDWEST AND THIS MAY CAUSE THE HVY RAIN TO REMAIN IN THE CWA PAST MIDNIGHT. HEAVY RAIN WILL EXIT LATE TONIGHT...HOWEVER ABUNDANT MOISTURE REMAINS AT MOST LEVELS THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND ANY SUNSHINE THAT HITS THE GROUND WILL DESTABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE. THIS WILL KEEP THE CHANCE OF THUNDER IN THE FORECAST THROUGH THE WEEKEND. APPEARS AVN/ETA ARE BRINGING ANOTHER SURGE OF DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. UKMET IS ALSO HINTING AT THIS. WILL THEREFORE ADD PRECIP ON JULY 4TH. .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... KATL 67 80 69 85 / 99 50 30 30 KAHN 69 80 69 85 / 99 50 30 30 KGVL 67 80 68 85 / 99 50 30 30 KRMG 67 83 69 86 / 99 50 30 30 KCSG 72 85 72 87 / 99 50 40 30 KMCN 72 85 71 87 / 99 50 40 30 .ATL WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. AVIATION DISCUSSION...CENTER OF THE REMNANTS OF T.S. BILL NOW JUST NORTH OF BHM. CONTINUED SLOW MOVEMENT TO WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA BY WEDNESDAY MORNING. AS A RESULT WIND CURRENTLY FROM SOUTHEAST TO SOUTH WILL GRADUALLY SHIFT TO SOUTHWEST WEDNESDAY MORNING. SPEED MOSTLY IN THE 10 TO 15 KT RANGE. SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL GRADULLY DECREASE IN COVERAGE AND BECOMING MOSTLY SCATTERED ON WEDNESDAY. EXPECTED CIGS TO REMAIN OR REDEVELOP MOSTLY BLO 1 THOUSAND FEET DURING NIGHT. VSBY LOWER IN RAIN. SOME FOG SHOULD DEVELOP DURING NIGHT BUT THINK GENERALLY IN THE 2 TO 4 MILE RANGE. 17
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-012115- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1150 AM EDT TUE JUL 1 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY RAIN THROUGH TONIGHT. .SYNOPSIS... TROPICAL DEPRESSION BILL WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. .PRIMARY HAZARD... THE PRIMARY HAZARD FROM THUNDERSTORMS TODAY WILL BE TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...THAT CAN QUICKLY CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS AND LOW LYING AREAS. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE...AND COULD SPAWN ISOLATED TORNADOES. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING...GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM ROME TO ATHENS. HEAVY RAIN MAY OCCUR ANYWHERE OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA INTO THE EVENING HOURS. .DISCUSSION... DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE WILL REMAIN IN PLACE AS THE REMNANTS OF TROPICAL STORM BILL MOVE FROM CENTRAL ALABAMA ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THE MAJOR THREAT FROM STRONG STORMS WILL BE HEAVY DOWNPOURS WITH PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS EXPECTED AROUND 1 TO LOCALLY 2 INCHES PER HOUR. FURTHERMORE...MARGINAL INSTABILITY EXISTS ACROSS THE AREA WITH CAPES AROUND 500 TO 1000... LIFTED INDICES RANGING FROM MINUS 2 TO MINUS 4...AND STRONG DYNAMICS. THEREFORE...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE...MAINLY IN CENTRAL GEORGIA. .FOR SPOTTERS... SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD MONITOR LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .DAY TWO THROUGH DAY SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY AND AGAIN ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT FORECAST AT THIS TIME. FOR THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK AND OTHER WEATHER INFORMATION...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WEATHER.GOV...AND CLICK ON GEORGIA.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
506 PM EDT TUE JUL 01 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0435 PM ATLANTA GA FLOODING
07/01/03 FULTON CHESHIRE BRIDGE ROAD AND
LAVISTA RD NEARLY
IMPASSABLE. SEVERAL ROADS
FLOODED. REPORTED BY
SPOTTER.
0435 PM 5S CHAMBLEE GA FLOODING
07/01/03 DEKALB ROADS FLOODED OUT IN
WESTERN DEKALB COUNTY.
REPORTED BY SPOTTER.
0435 PM 5S CHAMBLEE GA FLOODING
07/01/03 DEKALB PEACHTREE CREEK OUT OF
ITS BANKS IN PEOPLES
YARDS. REPORTED BY
SPOTTER.
0456 PM ATLANTA GA FLOODING
07/01/03 FULTON PEACHTREE CREEK REPORTED
AT 17 FEET. REPORTED BY
EMA.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
542 PM EDT TUE JUL 01 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0400 PM STOCKBRIDGE GA WIND DAMAGE
07/01/03 HENRY NUMEROUS TREES DOWN.
PUBLIC REPORT.
0435 PM ATLANTA GA FLOODING
07/01/03 FULTON CHESHIRE BRIDGE ROAD AND
LAVISTA RD NEARLY
IMPASSABLE. SEVERAL ROADS
FLOODED. REPORTED BY
SPOTTER.
0435 PM 5S CHAMBLEE GA FLOODING
07/01/03 DEKALB ROADS FLOODED OUT IN
WESTERN DEKALB COUNTY.
REPORTED BY SPOTTER.
0435 PM 5S CHAMBLEE GA FLOODING
07/01/03 DEKALB PEACHTREE CREEK OUT OF
ITS BANKS IN PEOPLES
YARDS. REPORTED BY
SPOTTER.
0456 PM ATLANTA GA FLOODING
07/01/03 FULTON PEACHTREE CREEK REPORTED
AT 17 FEET. REPORTED BY
EMA.
0530 PM LOGANVILLE GA FLOODING
07/01/03 WALTON NUMEROUS ROADS FLOODED
OUT COUNTYWIDE. REPORTED
BY 911.
0537 PM MONTICELLO GA FLOODING
07/01/03 JASPER NUMEROUS ROADS FLOODED
OUT COUNTYWIDE. REPORTED
BY 911.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The public reported that rainfall of 5.5 inches in the 12-hour period ending at 7 pm EDT had resulted in the flooding of a number of creeks and small streams around the county. Some drainage ditches were overflowing their banks, which had a minor impact on some roads.
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, July 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: 5335027.