3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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 Sep 27, 1:35 PM EST, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 235 PM EDT SAT SEP 27 2003 .OVERVIEW...UPPER PATTERN IS SHIFTING TO A POSITIVE PACIFIC NORTH AMERICAN TELECONNECTION. OUR PATTERN HAS BEEN DOMINATED BY A MEAN TROUGH IN THE UPPER MIDWEST/N ROCKIES AND WEAK RIDGE IN SOUTHEAST SINCE MID AUGUST. THE PATTERN CHANGE WILL FEATURE THE FIRST SURGE OF AUTUMN CHILL WITH THE CONTINUED BELOW NORMAL RAINFALL PATTERN. EXPECT TEMPS TO AVERAGE 5 TO 10 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL FOR THE COMING WEEK .SHORT TERM...FIRST COLD FRONT WILL MARCH THROUGH THE CWA TONIGHT. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ACCOMPANY FRONT...BUT BEST DYNAMICS TO OUR NORTH AND BEST MOISTURE IS ALSO TO OUR NORTH AND EAST. THEREFORE...ACTIVITY SHOULD BE ISOLATED AND DIMINISH LATER THIS EVENING MOST PLACES. AFTER FRONT PASSES...EXPECT LOTS OF CLEAR SKIES SUNDAY INTO MONDAY. WITH DAYTIME MIXING AND INCREASE PRESSURE GRADIENT AHEAD OF HIGH PRESSURE...EXPECT WINDS TO INCREASE INTO 10 TO 20 MPH RANGE SUNDAY AFTERNOON. WITH NORTHWEST WINDS AND SLIGHT DOWNSLOPING...TEMPS WILL REALLY NOT DROP OFF UNTIL SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY. FIRST BLAST OF COOLER AIR WILL MOVE THRU BY MONDAY WITH TEMPS ABOUT 7 TO 10 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. GFS/ETA/NGM/UKMET ALL SIMILAR WITH THIS...AND HAVE HIGH CONFIDENCE IN WEATHER NEXT 2 TO 3 DAYS AS ENSEMBLE SPREAD IS SMALL. WE SHOULD SEE A SMALL AMOUNT OF WARMING TUESDAY AHEAD OF SECOND COLD FRONT WHICH WILL ALLOW TEMPS TO WARM A FEW DEGREES BASED ON 1000/500 THICKNESSES. AS FOR TEMPS...PREFER GFS AND GFS MOS. LOOKS LIKE CHANGES IN EDAS ARE ADVERSELY EFFECTING ETA MODEL TEMPS/DEWPOINTS. DO NOT LIKE IDEA OF ETA SURFACE TEMPS OF LOWS IN THE 30S BY TUE MORNING INTO ATL/AHN AND HIGH MONDAY/TUE ONLY IN MID 60S IN ATL/AHN. 1000/500 THICKNESSES DO NOT SUPPORT THIS. THEREFORE...HAVE THROWN OUT ETA AND ETA MOS AS TOO COLD. GFS/GFS MOS MUCH CLOSER TO THICKNESS TECHNIQUE AND WILL USE. .EXTENDED... ENSEMBLE SPREAD REMAINS RATHER SMALL WITH WESTERN CANADIAN RIDGE...EASTERN U.S. TROUGH...AND MIDDLE ATLANTIC RIDGE. THIS WILL DUMP COOLEST AIR OF THE SEASON INTO THE SE BY THE SECOND HALF OF THE WEEK...BUT LOOKS TO STAY ABOVE RECORD LOWS FOR NOW. PE VALUES SUPPORTS DRY FORECAST AFTER TONIGHT FOR CWA. PREFER ECMWF/UKMET/CANADIAN MODELS WITH SYSTEM NEXT SATURDAY. GFS LOOKS A BIT FAST WITH SOUTHWEST SYSTEM...SO NO POPS ON DAY 7. .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... KATL 60 77 48 70 / 20 00 00 00 KAHN 60 79 48 71 / 20 00 00 00 KGVL 58 75 47 70 / 20 00 00 00 KRMG 57 76 45 70 / 20 00 00 00 KCSG 64 82 53 74 / 20 10 00 00 KMCN 63 82 49 74 / 20 10 00 00 .ATL WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NOEL/MOLLER
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 445 PM EDT SAT SEP 27 2003 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-280200- 445 PM EDT SAT SEP 27 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY. ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE EXTREME NORTH THROUGH THIS EVENING... .SYNOPSIS... A COLD FRONT OVER MIDDLE TENNESSEE WILL BE PUSHING INTO GEORGIA EARLY TONIGHT. AHEAD OF THIS BOUNDARY...EXPECT INCREASING INSTABILITY AND MOISTURE. .PRIMARY HAZARD... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...WITH THE PRIMARY THREAT BEING DAMAGING WINDS. SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THE STORMS. .DISCUSSION... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AND MOVE ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ...AS DAYTIME HEATING COMBINE WITH INCREASING MOISTURE AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. DEWPOINTS WILL REMAIN IN THE 60S. CAPES ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE INTO THE 1000 TO 2000 RANGE WITH LIFTED INDICES OF MINUS 1 TO MINUS 3. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL BE NORTH OF A LINE FROM ROME TO DAHLONEGA. .FOR SPOTTERS... DUE TO THE ISOLATED NATURE OF EXPECTED SEVERE WEATHER...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED. HOWEVER SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS. .DAY TWO THROUGH DAY SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. 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.
GAZ001>004-011-271930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 236 PM EDT SAT SEP 27 2003 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR GUSTY WINDS IN CHATTOOGA...DADE... WALKER...WHITFIELD AND CATOOSA COUNTIES UNTIL 330 PM EDT... AT 233 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM AROUND LAKEVIEW TO NORTHWEST OF MENLO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. EXPECT BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS...UP TO 45 MPH...WITH THESE STORMS AS THE LINE MOVES TO NEAR DALTON TO SUMMERVILLE BY 330 PM. 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.
GAZ002>006-011-012-272015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 321 PM EDT SAT SEP 27 2003 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR SMALL HAIL...INTENSE LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS IN CHATTOOGA...GORDON...FANNIN...WALKER...WHITFIELD... CATOOSA AND MURRAY COUNTIES UNTIL 415 PM EDT... AT 320 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM AROUND COHUTTA TO LAFAYETTE AND SUMMERVILLE... THE LINE OF STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. EXPECT BRIEF PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING... WINDS GUSTING UP TO 40 MPH...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. THESE STORMS WILL REACH TO NEAR MCCAYSVILLE...CHATSWORTH AND CALHOUN BY 415 PM. 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.
GAZ004>009-012-013-019>021-272115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 410 PM EDT SAT SEP 27 2003 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR SMALL HAIL...INTENSE LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS IN CHEROKEE...BARTOW...PICKENS...FLOYD...GORDON... GILMER...UNION...TOWNS...FANNIN...WHITFIELD AND MURRAY COUNTIES UNTIL 515 PM EDT... AT 407 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM MCCAYSVILLE TO ELLIJAY...CALHOUN AND ROME... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING... WINDS GUSTING UP TO 40 MPH...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. THESE STORMS WILL REACH TO NEAR HIAWASSEE...JASPER AND CARTERSVILLE BY 515 PM. 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 Atlanta radar (KFFC), 103 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:55 UTC.
3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
The Bartow county 911 center reported that a couple of trees had been blown down, one on Georgia Highway 293 just east of Kingston and the other on Macedonia Road between Kingston and Taylorsville.
The public reported nickel-sized hail.
The Coweta county 911 center reported that a couple of trees and a power line were down at Fisher Road and Wynn's Pond Road near the Fayette county border. An off-duty National Weather Service employee reported that a couple of large tree limbs were down on Lower Fayetteville Road south of Sharpsburg.
The public reported penny-sized hail.
The National Weather Service cooperative observer for Madison county reported that straight line thunderstorm wind gusts caused extensive damage to trees in the area. Hundreds of trees were either uprooted or broken off, with extensive debris in the streets in and around Ila. Several small structures in the area also sustained wind damage, mainly in the form of damage to roofs. Pea-sized hail was also reported in the area.
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, September 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: 5337217, 5337219, 5337218, 5371495, 5371496.