4 thunderstorm wind, 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 Jul 29, 2:30 PM EST, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 330 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 2003 .OVERVIEW... WESTERN RIDGE PREVAILS WITH FALLING HEIGHTS/TROUGHING ACROSS EASTERN CONUS. SURFACE FRONT WAVERING FROM CENTRAL OKLAHOMA THROUGH NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI THROUGH NORTHERN GEORGIA INTO CAROLINAS. .SHORT TERM... LATEST RADAR SHOWING CONVECTION BREAKING OUT ALONG A NEARLY EAST TO WEST LINE FROM NORTH OF AUGUSTA TO COLUMBUS...BETWEEN ATLANTA AND MACON. THIS IN LINE WITH ETA/GFS CONVECTIVE STORM COMPOSITE FAVORED AREA FOR DEVELOPMENT. MOISTURE POOLING ALONG AND SOUTH OF THIS BOUNDARY WITH DEWPOINTS IN MIDDLE 70S. MCV LEFT OVER FROM MORNING MCS ACROSS TN MOVING ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA. EXPECT ADDITIONAL CONVECTION TO DEVELOP WITHIN THIS AREA THIS EVENING. ALL IN ALL...EXPECT INCREASE IN COVERAGE OF RW/TRW ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA AND NORTHEAST MTNS OVER NEXT FEW HOURS INTO EVENING IN ASSOCIATION WITH THESE TWO AREAS. WET BULB ZERO IN 10K FT REALM AND MID LEVEL DRY AIR COULD POSE BOTH WIND (30 TO 40 KNT WINDS) AND HAIL (DIME SIZE) THREAT WITH STORMS OF SUFFICIENT DEPTH THIS EVENING. CONVECTION SHOULD WEAKEN AFTER MIDNIGHT WITH LOSS OF DIURNAL ENERGY. NEXT WAVE IN UPPER FLOW TO MOVE THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON WITH ANOTHER ROUND OF RW/TRW WITH FAVORABLE AREA ACROSS WESTERN GEORGIA BASED ON MODEL PRECIP EFFICIENCY VALUES. SURFACE WAVE CURRENTLY ACROSS OKLAHOMA FINALLY KICKS OUT INTO OHIO VALLEY THURSDAY WITH TRAILING FRONTAL BOUNDARY SWINGING THROUGH NORTH AND CENTRAL GA LATE THURSDAY. INCREASE IN DYNAMICS MAY POSE SEVERE THREAT THURSDAY AND WILL HAVE TO MONITOR OVER NEXT TWO DAYS. .EXTENDED... BIG QUESTION FOR END OF WEEK WILL BE FRONTAL POSITION. SOME CONCERN ON FRONT STALLING ACROSS CENTRAL TO SOUTHERN GEORGIA INTO CAROLINA COAST. FOR NOW WILL KEEP CHANCE FOR MAINLY AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS AS MOISTURE REMAINS WITHIN PROXIMITY OF REGION. TEMPERATURES WILL RANGE NEAR OR JUST COUPLE DEGREES BELOW CLIMATOLOGY WITH EASTERN TROUGH IN PLACE. .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... KATL 71 86 70 87 / 40 30 30 40 KAHN 71 87 70 87 / 40 30 40 40 KGVL 70 86 68 86 / 40 30 40 40 KRMG 71 87 69 87 / 40 30 30 40 KCSG 73 89 73 89 / 40 40 40 40 KMCN 72 89 72 89 / 40 40 40 40 .ATL WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. JCD
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-300156- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 356 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. .SYNOPSIS... A FRONTAL SYSTEM ALONG THE GEORGIA-TENNESSEE BORDER WILL PUSH INTO NORTH GEORGIA TONIGHT. AHEAD OF THIS BOUNDARY...EXPECT INCREASING INSTABILITY AND MOISTURE. A SURFACE TROUGH ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA WILL ALSO BE A FOCUS FOR CONVECTION THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. .PRIMARY HAZARD... ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND ALONG THE SURFACE TROUGH. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...WITH THE PRIMARY THREAT LARGE HAIL ...DAMAGING WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL. THE BEST CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE NORTH OF A ROME TO TOCCOA LINE AFTER 6PM AND ALONG AND SOUTH AN ATLANTA LINE FROM 4 PM TO 8 PM. .DISCUSSION... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS PARTS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. THIS WILL LEAD TO GREATER INSTABILITY. DEWPOINTS ARE EXPECTED TO IN THE UPPER 60S NORTH TO MID 70S CENTRAL. CAPES IN THE 3000 RANGE WILL DIMINISH TO AROUND 1000 AFTER SUNSET. LIFTED INDICES WILL BE IN THE MINUS 1 TO MINUS 3 RANGE. THIS WILL LEAD TO ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...WITH WINDS OF 55 MPH OR GREATER AND HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES. .FOR SPOTTERS... SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS...AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION. .DAY TWO THROUGH DAY SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY. FOR THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK AND OTHER WEATHER INFORMATION...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WEATHER.GOV...AND CLICK ON GEORGIA.
GAZ074-075-083-084-093>095-292130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 444 PM EDT TUE JUL 29 2003 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN IN MACON...HOUSTON...PEACH...TWIGGS...WILKINSON...WASHINGTON AND GLASCOCK COUNTIES UNTIL 530 PM EDT... AT 443 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR GIBSON TO NEAR MONTEZUMA ...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. SOME OF THE STORMS IN THIS LINE MAY PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH. LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS CAN BE EXPECTED. THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD BE ENDING OVER THE AREA BY 530 PM 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.
4 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The Houston county 911 center reported that a couple of trees were blown down.
The Washington county 911 center reported that one tree was blown down.
The Macon county 911 center reported that a couple of trees were blown down.
The Sumter Electric Membership Cooperative reported that one tree and one power line had been blown down.
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: 5334144, 5334143, 5334145, 5334146.