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Winter Weather Advisory 5, NWS Atlanta, GA

January 21, 201638 counties in Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this winter weather advisory at Jan 21, 2016, 3:11 PM EST for 38 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Jan 22, 2016, 3:00 PM EST. It was in force for 22 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 21, 2016, 3:11 PM EST (20:11 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 22, 2016, 3:00 PM EST
Expired: Jan 23, 2016, 1:00 PM EST
In force: 22 hr
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

All 38 counties

Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Butts County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Madison County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Polk County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, Wilkes County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 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 Jan 21, 12:08 PM EST, 3 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 21, 12:08 PM EST, 3 hours 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 21, 5:39 AM EST, 9 hours 32 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
Jan 21, 3:40 AM EST	Wind Advisory	FFC	Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer and 8 more	28 hr
Jan 21, 4:17 AM EST	Winter Storm Warning	FFC	Banks, Catoosa, Dade, Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer and 12 more	57 hr
Jan 21, 4:17 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	FFC	Lumpkin, Towns, Union, White	8 hr
Jan 21, 2:57 PM EST	Flood Watch	FFC	Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga and 32 more	29 hr

Nearby

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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.