2 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 4, 3:50 AM EST, 8 hours 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 450 AM EDT SUN JUL 4 2004 .SHORT TERM...GA ON TAIL END OF SHORT WAVE MOVING INTO THE GREAT LAKES THIS MORNING. A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PERSISTED THROUGH THE NIGHT AND ARE HEADED TOWARD NORTHWEST GA FROM AL AND TN. THIS VORT MAX CONTINUES TO MOVE NORTHEAST THROUGH THE AFTERNOON...BUT BEST DYNAMICS STAY TO OUR NORTH. HOWEVER...WITH UNSTABLE MOIST AIR AND ANY REMAINING OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD CONTINUE TO DEVELOP. AT THIS TIME...ACTIVITY IS SCATTERED AND CHANCE POPS LOOK OKAY. MODELS INDICATE SOME DRYING BEHIND THIS FEATURE FOR MONDAY AND HAVE KEPT POPS IN SLIGHT CHANCE RANGE. .LONG TERM...UPPER RIDGE BUILDING NORTHWARD FOR THE FIRST OF THE WEEK WITH TEMPERATURES CREEPING INTO THE 90S AND MORE DIURNAL POPS. NEXT TROUGH APPROACHING GA LATE WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY WITH HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING BACK FOR THE END OF THE EXTENDED. HAVE NOT MADE ANY CHANGES TO THIS TIME PERIOD. && .AVIATION... BELIEVE BEST CLOUD POTENTIAL IS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF 4000 TO 6000 FT CEILINGS LATER THIS MORNING INTO AFTERNOON AS SHORT WAVE MOVES INTO N GA. POTENTIAL FOR SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY DUE TO SHORT WAVE. MVFR TO IFR VSBYS IN FOG AT SOME TAFS SITES THIS MORNING DIMINISHING RAPIDLY BY MID MORNING. BELIEVE ATL SHOULD BE FOG FREE. WSW SURFACE WINDS CONTINUING TODAY. BDL && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... ATLANTA 88 71 92 73 / 40 20 20 10 ATHENS 89 71 93 72 / 40 20 20 10 GAINESVILLE 87 69 92 71 / 40 20 20 10 ROME 90 71 94 72 / 40 20 20 10 COLUMBUS 91 74 94 75 / 40 20 20 10 MACON 91 73 93 74 / 40 20 20 10 && .FFC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && 41
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 500 AM EDT SUN JUL 4 2004 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-041600- BALDWIN-BANKS-BARROW-BARTOW-BIBB-BLECKLEY-BUTTS-CARROLL-CATOOSA- CHATTAHOOCHEE-CHATTOOGA-CHEROKEE-CLARKE-CLAYTON-COBB-COWETA-CRAWFORD- CRISP-DADE-DAWSON-DE KALB-DODGE-DOOLY-DOUGLAS-EMANUEL-FANNIN-FAYETTE- FLOYD-FORSYTH-GILMER-GLASCOCK-GORDON-GREENE-GWINNETT-HALL-HANCOCK- HARALSON-HARRIS-HEARD-HENRY-HOUSTON-JACKSON-JASPER-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON- JONES-LAMAR-LAURENS-LUMPKIN-MACON-MADISON-MARION-MERIWETHER-MONROE- MONTGOMERY-MORGAN-MURRAY-MUSCOGEE-NEWTON-NORTH FULTON-OCONEE- OGLETHORPE-PAULDING-PEACH-PICKENS-PIKE-POLK-PULASKI-PUTNAM-ROCKDALE- SCHLEY-SOUTH FULTON-SPALDING-STEWART-SUMTER-TALBOT-TALIAFERRO-TAYLOR- TELFAIR-TOOMBS-TOWNS-TREUTLEN-TROUP-TWIGGS-UNION-UPSON-WALKER-WALTON- WARREN-WASHINGTON-WEBSTER-WHEELER-WHITE-WHITFIELD-WILCOX-WILKES- WILKINSON- 500 AM EDT SUN JUL 4 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY. ...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE OVER NORTH GEORGIA TODAY... .SYNOPSIS... HIGH PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO...FLORIDA AND THE WESTERN ATLANTIC. WEAK LOW PRESSURE OVER THE CAROLINAS WILL DRIFT NORTHEAST WITH A TROUGH EXTENDING INTO THE AREA. .PRIMARY HAZARD... THE PRIMARY HAZARD FROM ANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. SMALL HAIL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. THE MOST LIKELY LOCATION FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL BE ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM BREMEN IN HARALSON COUNTY TO DAHLONEGA IN LUMPKIN COUNTY. THE BEST TIME FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LATE MORNING AND AFTERNOON. .DISCUSSION... A MOIST AIRMASS CONTINUES OVER THE AREA. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE WITH CAPES OF 1500 TO 2000. A SHORT WAVE WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA LATER TODAY THAT WILL CAUSE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND WILL GIVE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... DUE TO THE ISOLATED NATURE OF ANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...SPOTTERS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT IN CASE ACTIVATION IS NEEDED. .DAY TWO THROUGH DAY SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. 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. BDL
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 143 PM EDT SUN JUL 4 2004 GAZ016-022>024-033-034-041845- 143 PM EDT SUN JUL 4 2004 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR FREQUENT LIGHTNING IN GWINNETT... FORSYTH...BANKS...HALL...WHITE AND FULTON COUNTIES UNTIL 245 PM EDT... AT 141 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM ALTO TO ROSWELL...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. LIGHTNING DETECTION SYSTEMS HAVE INDICATED NUMEROUS CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES WITH THESE STORMS. PEOPLE IN THIS AREA SHOULD MOVE INDOORS OR TO A PERMANENT SHELTER. ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES AND CORDED TELEPHONES SHOULD NOT BE USED UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY. 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 Greer radar (KGSP), 145 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:42 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
The White county 911 center reported that one tree was blown down.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that lightning struck three homes in Gwinnett county during the late afternoon and evening. Two homes were struck in Lilburn and a third home was struck in Snellville. The home in Snellville suffered extensive damage because of the resulting fire. Only minor damage was reported to the homes in Lilburn. A fireman suffered heat-related injuries while fighting the fire at the home in Snellville.
The Walton County 911 center reported that many trees and several power lines were blown down from Loganville to Walnut Grove.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that lightning struck the Holsenbeck Elementary School causing extensive damage to the media center and the administrative offices. Heat from the fire also burst a large pipe causing flooding in the school as well.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Georgia in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Georgia, July 2004
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: 5415747, 5415749, 5415746, 5415748.