1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 Jul 8, 2:53 PM EST, 27 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 347 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 2003 OVERVIEW...500 MB RIDGE REMAINS IN CONTROL OF WEATHER OVER THE CWA. RIDGE RECEDES AS SHORT WAVE SHARPENS UP AND MOVES FROM UPPER MIDWEST INTO THE EASTERN STATES BY FRIDAY MORNING. PREFRONTAL PRECIPITATION WILL AFFECT THE NORTHWEST PART OF STATE BY THURSDAY. FRONT MOVES INTO NORTHWEST GEORGIA BY FRIDAY MORNING WITH SHOWERS AND TSTMS BEING PUSHED MORE INTO CENTRAL PART OF STATE. SHORT TERM...THRU THURSDAY NIGHT. RADAR COVERAGE SPARSE THIS AFTERNOON...EVEN THOUGH AIR IS VERY JUICY. WILL GO WITH A 20 POPS CWA WIDE AND HOPE FOR THE BEST. AS FRONT APPROACHES AND RIDGE BEGINS TO RECEDE POPS WILL GO UP TO CHANCE WEDNESDAY AND INCREASE TO LIKELY BY THURSDAY IN THE NORTHWEST. MOS TEMPS SIMILAR...STAYED CLOSE. EXTENDED...FRIDAY THRU TUESDAY. EXTENDED MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT. UPPER TROUGH BOTTOMS OUT OVER CWA ON FRIDAY AND THEN BEGINS TO SLOWLY RECEDE BY EARLY NEXT WEEK. SURFACE FRONT ENTERS NORTHWEST GEORGIA FRIDAY MORNING...WEAKENS BY SATURDAY MORNING. SLIGHTLY DRIER AIR WILL REMAIN...ISOLATED POPS SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. LITTLE CHANGE IN TEMPERATURES. .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... KATL 71 90 71 86 / 20 30 30 60 KAHN 71 90 71 87 / 20 30 30 50 KGVL 69 88 70 86 / 20 30 30 60 KRMG 70 90 70 86 / 20 40 40 70 KCSG 73 94 73 90 / 20 20 20 40 KMCN 72 94 72 91 / 20 20 20 40 .ATL WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. 22
GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-081930- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 136 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TODAY. .SYNOPSIS... A BERMUDA HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE REMAINS TO THE EAST OF GEORGIA TODAY. A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA WILL PUSH NORTHEAST THROUGH THE STATE TODAY. DAYTIME HEATING COMBINED WITH A VERY MOIST AIR MASS WILL BRING ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. .PRIMARY HAZARD...THE PRIMARY HAZARD FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .DISCUSSION... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON...AS DAYTIME HEATING INCREASES INSTABILITY. CAPE WILL BE INCREASING TO AROUND 2000. HOWEVER...NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST. THE BEST CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE SOUTH OF A LINE FROM ATLANTA TO MACON. THE BEST CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL OCCUR BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 2 PM AND 8 PM. .FOR SPOTTERS... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH TONIGHT. .DAY TWO THROUGH DAY SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. WITH A SUMMER LIKE WEATHER PATTERN PREVAILING...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EACH DAY. 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.
GAZ097-082000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 317 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 2003 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR SIGNIFICANT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING HEAVY RAIN IN LAURENS COUNTY. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER LAURENS COUNTY EAST OF DUBLIN MOVING SOUTHEAST AT ONLY 5 MPH. THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL BE FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS. RAINFALL IN SOME AREAS NEAR MINTER MAY EXCEED TWO INCHES...RESULTING IN BRIEF FLOODING OF ROADWAYS OR DRAINAGE SYSTEMS. LIGHTNING STRIKES CAN CAUSE FIRES. RESIDENTS OF THIS AREA SHOULD STAY INSIDE AND AWAY FROM ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES. MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD END ACROSS THE AREA BY 400 PM EDT. 15
GAZ097-082000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO HEADLINE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 317 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 2003 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR SIGNIFICANT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN IN LAURENS COUNTY. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER LAURENS COUNTY EAST OF DUBLIN MOVING SOUTHEAST AT ONLY 5 MPH. THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL BE FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS. RAINFALL IN SOME AREAS NEAR MINTER MAY EXCEED TWO INCHES...RESULTING IN BRIEF FLOODING OF ROADWAYS OR DRAINAGE SYSTEMS. LIGHTNING STRIKES CAN CAUSE FIRES. RESIDENTS OF THIS AREA SHOULD STAY INSIDE AND AWAY FROM ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES. MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD END ACROSS THE AREA BY 400 PM EDT. 15
GAZ074-084>086-097-098-082100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 410 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 2003 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR SIGNIFICANT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING IN EMANUEL...JOHNSON...LAURENS...TREUTLEN...WASHINGTON... WILKINSON...COUNTIES. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EMANUEL...JOHNSON...LAURENS...TREUTLEN...WASHINGTON...WILKINSON COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHEAST. THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 INCHES OR MORE COULD FALL AT SOME LOCATIONS IN LESS THAN ONE HOUR...WHICH WOULD RESULT IN FLOODING OF STREETS AND DRAINAGE SYSTEMS. LIGHTNING STRIKES CAN CAUSE FIRES. RESIDENTS OF THIS AREA SHOULD STAY INSIDE AND AWAY FROM ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES...AND MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD END ACROSS THE AREA BY 630 PM EDT. 15
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
The Laurens Emergency Management Director and the county 911 center reported that five trees were blown down in Minter and power lines were blown down in Dublin.
The Laurens county Emergency Management Director reported quarter-sized hail.
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: 5334751, 5334752.