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Winter Weather Advisory 3, NWS Atlanta, GA

February 15, 201532 counties in Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this winter weather advisory at Feb 15, 2015, 3:22 PM EST for 32 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Feb 16, 2015, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 29 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 15, 2015, 3:22 PM EST (20:22 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 16, 2015, 7:00 AM EST
Expired: Feb 17, 2015, 12:00 PM EST
In force: 29 hr
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

All 32 counties

Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Dade County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Hall County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Madison County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Murray County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Polk County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Walker County, GA, Walton County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Wilkes County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter weather advisory went out, 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 this winter weather advisory went out at Feb 15, 2:48 PM EST, 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 15, 2:48 PM EST, 34 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 15, 6:01 AM EST, 9 hours 21 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Feb 15, 3:22 PM EST, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 14, 10:06 PM EST	Wind Advisory	FFC	Fannin, Lumpkin, Towns, Union, White	12 hr
Feb 14, 11:35 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts, Coweta, Fayette, Greene, Hancock, Harris and 17 more	115 min
Feb 15, 3:22 PM EST	Winter Storm Warning	FFC	Banks, Catoosa, Cherokee, Clarke, Dade, Dawson and 15 more	45 hr

Nearby

Winter Weather Advisories in Georgia, 2015 Every winter weather advisory in 2015

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.