Hail, Wayne
- When
- March 20, 8:15 PM EST
- Where
- Wayne County, Gardi
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 31.533, -81.800
Hail in Georgia, March 20, 2003
1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What forecasters said that day
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 Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 20, 3:25 PM EST, 4 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 20, 3:25 PM EST, 4 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED WITH TORNADO WATCH #70 INFO
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
325 PM EST THU MAR 20 2003
UPDATED CWF WITH TORNADO WATCH #70 IN GA LEG. ISSUED NEW ZFP PACKAGE
EARLY WITH TORNADO WATCH.
======================= PREVIOUS DISCUSSION ========================
CURRENTLY...SVR WX ADVANCING NE ACRS OUR WESTERN GA ZONES IN VC OF
THE RRQ OF A 35-45KT LOW LVL JET AND IN ADVANCE OF AN OCCLUDED FRONT
MOVING THRU THE FL PANHANDLE. NICKEL TO BASEBALL SIZE HAS BEEN
REPORTED IN THE STRONGEST STORMS. KJAX 12Z RAOB AND LATEST WV
IMAGERY INDICATED THAT HAIL AND STRONG WINDS WOULD BE HAZARDS ACRS
THE AREA TODAY WITH DRY AIR ALOFT AND STRONG DIVERGENCE AT 300 MB.
MESOETA HELICITIES INCREASED TO NEAR 220 M2/S2 ACRS SE GA 18Z TODAY
AND ROTATION HAS BEEN NOTED IN STORMS. TORNADO WATCH #65 CONTINUES
FOR THE GA ZONES UNTIL 3 PM TODAY...WITH THE ENTIRE AREA UNDER A
SLIGHT RISK THRU 12Z FRI MORNING. TEMPS ARE IN THE LWR TO MID 80S
WITH DEW PTS IN THE LWR 70S. THE EAST COAST SEABREEZE BOUNDARY IS
TRYING TO ADVANCE INLAND...BUT STRONG WSW WINDS ARE PINNIG IT ALONG
THE COAST. EXPECT SEABREEZE BOUNDARY AND OUTFLOWS TO INTERACT THIS
AFTN...IN A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS.
SHORT TERM...SVR WX WILL COTINUE TO BE OF CONCERN AS WE HEAD INTO
TONIGHT WITH A SERIES OF TROUGHS MOVING E THROUGH THE UNSTABLE
CWA...OUTFLOWS EVERYWHERE AND THE LINGERING SEABREEZE FRONT ALONG
THE COAST. WILL MONITOR LATEST RADAR TRENDS NEAR ZFP ISSUANCE
TIME...BUT ANTICIPATE LIKELY POPS AT LEAST FOR THE EARLY EVE HOURS
FOR MUCH OF THE AREA. WILL KEEP TSRA WORDING THRU THE NIGHT...AS
ANOTHER FRONT EXTENDING FROM THE PLAINS SFC LOW APPROACHES THE AREA.
MODELS GENERALLY AGREE WITH THE PLACEMENT OF THIS FRONT EXTENDING IT
THRU THE CWA BY 18Z FRI. ATT LOOKS LIKE STRONGEST AREA OF
INSTABILITY WILL SHIFT S INTO THE FL ZONES FRI WITH THE ENTIRE AREA
REMAINING UNDER SLIGHT RISK. ANOTHER (AND HOPEFULLY THE FINAL) COLD
FRONT WILL MOVE THRU THE AREA EARLY SAT WITH NW WINDS FUNNELING INTO
THE AREA AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVER THE LWR MS VALLEY AND COLD
FRONT ADVANCES IN CENTRAL FL. NEAR CLIMO TEMPS ON TAP FOR THE
WEEKEND.
EXTENDED...A SFC LOW DEVELOPS ALONG THE LINGERING FRONTAL BOUNDARY
OVER S FL LATE SUN AND MOVES INTO THE ATLANTIC AS HIGH PRESS BUILDS
EASTWARD OVER THE NORTHERN GULF COAST. WILL GO WITH SLIGHT CHC OF
SHRA THRU EARLY MON WITH ONSHORE FLOW OVER THE AREA. WED LOOKS LIKE
A FAVORABLE SEABREEZE CONVERGENCE DAY WITH WARM SLY OVER THE AREA AS
SFC RIDGE ADVANCES OFFSHORE AND NEXT STORM SYSTEM APPROACHES THE TN
VALLEY. WILL GO WITH SLIGHT CHC POPS WED AFTN THRU THU. TEMPS
GENERALLY A FEW DEGREES ABOVE CLIMO.
MARINE...WILL CONTINUE SCA BASED ON SEA HEIGHTS AND WILL CONTINUE
HEADLINES THRU FRI. IMPROVING CONDITIONS THIS WEEKEND AS HIGH
PRESSURE BUILDS INTO THE REGION FROM THE WEST.
FIRE WX...NO CONCERNS.
CCF...
FCSTID = 24
AMG 65 78 51 73 / 70 50 20 0
SSI 65 78 56 73 / 60 60 20 0
JAX 67 82 56 77 / 60 60 20 0
SGJ 67 80 60 77 / 60 60 30 0
GNV 67 83 56 78 / 60 60 20 0
OCF 67 83 56 79 / 60 60 30 0
.JAX...
FL...TORNADO WATCH #70 THRU 9 PM FLZ020>023.
SCA FERNANDINA BCH TO FLAGLER BCH OUT 60 NM.
GA...TORNADO WATCH #70 THRU 9 PM ALL ZONES.
SCA ALTAMAHA SOUND TO FERNANDINA BCH OUT 60 NM.
PUBLIC...BROYLES
MARINE/FIRE WX...CARROLL
RADAR...WELSH/SHASHYHazardous weather outlook, Mar 20, 3:50 PM EST, 4 hours 25 minutes before
FLZ020>025-030>033-035>038-040-GAZ132>136-149>154-162>166-210200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 350 PM EST THU MAR 20 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... ...A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND BAKER...COLUMBIA...HAMILTON AND SUWANNEE COUNTIES IN NORTH FLORIDA... ...TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALIZED FLOODING POSSIBLE... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA. ELSEWHERE SCATTERED STRONG AND ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING. STORMS WILL MOVE TOWARD THE NORTHEAST. LOCALIZED FLOODING IS ALSO POSSIBLE TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... THE POTENTIAL FOR SCATTERED STRONG AND ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS THROUGH FRIDAY ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA. LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. AREA RIVERS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE NEAR OR ABOVE FLOOD STAGE THROUGH THE PERIOD. NO OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED FOR THE TORNADO WATCH AREA. OTHERWISE...SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO SELF-ACTIVATE IF WARNINGS ARE ISSUED. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAX. CARROLL
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 20, 6:25 PM EST, 1 hour 50 minutes before
GAZ133-210015- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 625 PM EST THU MAR 20 2003 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT JEFF DAVIS COUNTY THROUGH 715 PM... AT 625 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CENTERED 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SNIPESVILLE...OR ABOUT OVER BROXTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO AFFECT AREAS AROUND DENTON AND HAZLEHURST THROUGH 715 PM EST. HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER...EXCESSIVE CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS OF 45 TO 55 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG WITH POSSIBLE MINOR DAMAGE. PLEASE SEEK SHELTER IF LIGHTNING IS IN YOUR AREA. BROYLES
Special weather statement, Mar 20, 6:40 PM EST, 1 hour 35 minutes before
GAZ150-210030- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 640 PM EST THU MAR 20 2003 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT NORTHERN WARE COUNTY THROUGH 730 PM... AT 640 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF DIXIE UNION...OR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF PEARSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO AFFECT AREAS NEAR TALMO AND DIXIE UNION THROUGH 730 PM EST. HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER...EXCESSIVE CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS OF 45 TO 55 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG WITH POSSIBLE MINOR DAMAGE. IF LIGHTNING IS IN YOUR AREA...PLEASE SEEK SHELTER. BROYLES
Special weather statement, Mar 20, 6:50 PM EST, 1 hour 25 minutes before
GAZ134-151-210030- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 650 PM EST THU MAR 20 2003 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT BACON AND PIERCE COUNTIES THROUGH 730 PM... AT 650 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CENTERED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALMA TO 14 MILES SOUTH OF BLACKSHEAR MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO AFFECT AREAS AROUND ALMA...BLACKSHEAR AND NEW LACY THROUGH 730 PM EST. HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER...EXCESSIVE CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG WITH POSSIBLE MINOR DAMAGE. SHASHY
Special weather statement, Mar 20, 6:55 PM EST, 1 hour 20 minutes before
GAZ135-210045- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 655 PM EST THU MAR 20 2003 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT APPLING THROUGH 745 PM... AT 655 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BAXLEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO AFFECT AREAS AROUND PINE GROVE...BAXLEY AND SURRENCY THROUGH 745 PM EST. HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER...EXCESSIVE CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS OF 45 TO 55 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG WITH POSSIBLE MINOR DAMAGE. TAKE SHELTER IF LIGHTNING IS IN YOUR AREA. BROYLES
Special weather statement, Mar 20, 7:28 PM EST, 47 minutes before
GAZ136-151-210115- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 728 PM EST THU MAR 20 2003 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PIERCE AND WAYNE COUNTIES THROUGH 815 PM... ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM... AT 728 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CENTERED 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BRISTOL...OR ABOUT 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF PATTERSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO AFFECT AREAS AROUND PATTERSON...BRISTOL...SCREVEN...BROADHURST...ODUM... GARDI...AND JESUP THROUGH 815 PM EST. HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER...EXCESSIVE CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS OF 45 TO 55 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG WITH POSSIBLE MINOR DAMAGE. SHASHY
Special weather statement, Mar 20, 7:40 PM EST, 35 minutes before
GAZ150-210115- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 740 PM EST THU MAR 20 2003 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT NORTH WARE COUNTY THROUGH 815 PM... ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM... AT 740 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CENTERED 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF MANOR...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF ARGYLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL ALSO AFFECT AREAS AROUND MANOR...NEEDHAM... WARESBORO...WAYCROSS...DIXIE UNION AND DEENWOOD THROUGH 815 PM EST. HALF INCH HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS OF 45 TO 55 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG WITH POSSIBLE MINOR WIND DAMAGE. SHASHY
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 117 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:13 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Georgia, March 20, 2003
- Tornado in Georgia, March 20, 2003
- Tornado in Florida, March 20, 2003
- Flood in North Carolina, March 20 to 21, 2003
- Flood in North Carolina, March 20, 2003
- Flood in North Carolina, March 20, 2003
- Flood in South Carolina, March 20, 2003
- Flood in South Carolina, March 20 to 21, 2003
- Flood in North Carolina, March 20 to 24, 2003
- Flood in North Carolina, March 20, 2003
- Flood in North Carolina, March 20, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Virginia, March 20 to 24, 2003
More
Every storm in Georgia in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, March 2003
Sources
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: 5341635.