1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 5, 5:20 PM EST, 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 620 PM EDT SAT JUL 5 2003 UPDATED FOR AVIATION DISCUSSION (SEE BELOW) .OVERVIEW...MORE OF THE SAME. SURFACE RIDGE STAYS FLATTENED OVER SOUTHEAST U.S. THROUGH THE EARLY WEEK AND EVEN EDGES WEST. FRONT APPROACHES STATE THURSDAY AND MAY STALL ACROSS CENTRAL GA. RICH TROPICAL MOISTURE WILL KEEP SCATTERED RW AND TSRA IN THE MIX EACH DAY. .SHORT TERM...THE DAILY BATTLE OF MORNING STRATUS GIVING WAY TO SCATTERED AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TUESDAY. WEAK SHORT WAVES WILL CONTINUE MOVING NORTH OVER STATE ON EASTERN SIDE OF RIDGE. SHORT-RANGE MODELS ALL BRING A MINOR SHORT WAVE THROUGH TENNESSEE SUNDAY NIGHT...EACH WITH VARYING DEGREES OF STRENGTH. ETA SHEARS THIS INTO MULTIPLE VORT MAXES...LEAVING TROFINESS IN N GA THROUGH MONDAY...WHILE GFS LIFTS THE SYSTEM INTO MID-ATLANTIC. EITHER WAY...HIER POPS IN ORDER FOR THE NORTH SUNDAY EVENING. WITH THIS STEADY STREAM OF VORT MAXES FROM THE SOUTH AND WEST...AND THE DEEP MOISTURE NOT GOING ANYWHERE SOON...AFTERNOON POPS WILL BE IN THE 40-60% RANGE...MAINLY BECAUSE OF RW-. AREAL COVERAGE OF THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY WILL BE DICTATED MAINLY BY MESOSCALE BOUNDARIES DUE TO DIFFERENTIAL HEATING AND NORTHWARD MOVING SEA BREEZES. INSTABILITY REMAINS LIMITED THROUGH MONDAY AND POCKETS OF 850 MB DRY AIR MANAGE TO SLIP ACROSS GA SUNDAY AND MONDAY...SO NOT LOOKING AT ANYTHING MORE THAN CHANCE THUNDER. FOR TEMPS...WILL NOT STRAY FAR FROM GUIDANCE. .EXTENDED...MODELS ARE CONSISTENT IN BRINGING FRONT INTO GA ON THURSDAY...ALTHO RECENT RUNS SHOW IT WEAKENING AND STALLING IN STATE RATHER THAN PUSHING THROUGH AS ORIGINALLY PROGGED. STALLING SEEMS TO BE A MORE REASONABLE SOLUTION...AS THE BERMUDA RIDGE WILL BE DIFFICULT TO OVERCOME. THUS...HAVE MAINTAINED HIER POPS THURSDAY - ESPECIALLY IN THE MORNING NORTH - AND REINTRODUCED THEM ON FRIDAY IN THE SOUTH. HAVE LOWERED MAX TEMPS ON FRI...PERHAPS A BIT TOO FAR...BUT WILL ANTICIPATE FRONTAL PASSAGE AND COOLING INTO THE MID 80S. .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... KATL 70 85 72 88 / 50 50 30 30 KAHN 69 86 71 88 / 40 30 30 30 KGVL 68 85 70 85 / 40 30 30 30 KRMG 69 89 71 89 / 50 50 30 30 KCSG 71 90 73 90 / 50 50 30 30 KMCN 70 89 73 89 / 30 50 30 30 .ATL WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. .AVIATION DISCUSSION... BERMUDA HIGH IS EXTENDING A BIT MORE INLAND OVER GEORGIA TODAY. THIS SEEMS TO BE HINDERING SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER SOUTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA...ALTHOUGH NOT SUPPRESSING IT COMPLETELY. UNLESS WE SEE SOME LATE DEVELOPMENT...THIS MEANS WE WILL PROBABLY START THE NIGHT WITH LOWER BOUNDRY LAYER RELATIVE HUMIDITY THAN IN PAST COUPLE OF DIURNAL CYCLES. THIS MAY RESULT IN A LATER DEVELOPMENT OF IFR CIGS...EXCEPT POSSIBLY AT ATL AND FTY WHERE THERE HAS BEEN CONSIDERABLE SHOWER ACTIVITY THIS AFTERNOON. LOOKING AT BRINGING IN THE LOWER CIGS AROUND 08Z-09Z AT MOST LOCATIONS. MAYBE BIT EARLIER AROUND ATL. 27/15
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-051400- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 600 AM EDT SAT JUL 5 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TODAY. .SYNOPSIS... SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE TO THE EAST OF THE REGION WILL KEEP LIGHT SOUTHERLY WINDS. WITH LITTLE CHANGE IN THE WEATHER PATTERN TODAY...DAYTIME HEATING AND A MOIST ATMOSPHERE WILL POSE THE THREAT FOR AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. .PRIMARY HAZARD...THE PRIMARY HAZARD FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. .DISCUSSION... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ONCE AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON. DAYTIME HEATING AND PLENTIFUL MOISTURE WILL INCREASE ATMOSPHERIC INSTABILITY THIS AFTERNOON. LIFTED INDICES BETWEEN MINUS 1 AND MINUS 3 ARE EXPECTED WITH CAPES BETWEEN 500 AND 1500. THE BEST CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP WILL BE ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM ATLANTA TO ATHENS FROM 2 PM TO 7 PM. IN ADDITION... THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP ALONG THE COASTAL SEA BREEZE IN FAR SOUTHEAST GEORGIA DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON MAY MOVE WEST INTO AREAS NEAR VIDALIA AND SWAINSBORO BETWEEN 5 PM AND 9 PM. THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. .FOR SPOTTERS... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. .DAY TWO THROUGH DAY SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. WITH A SUMMER LIKE WEATHER PATTERN PREVAILING...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EACH DAY. 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), 91 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:57 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Polk county 911 center reported that very heavy rain caused flooding of Georgia Highway 27 in Cedartown near the Wal Mart in the Lake Creek area. Several vehicles became stalled in the high water. There were also several roads in the city that were flooded.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5334750.