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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Apr 4, 2018, 1:21 AM EDT for 5 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 39 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 4, 2018, 1:21 AM EDT (05:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 2018, 2:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Wind
- 50
Counties Bartow County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Polk County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 1:30 AM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Rome, GA | 2 TREES DOWN IN ROME. ONE ALONG VAUGHN ROAD AND ANOTHER ALONG BLACKS BLUFF ROAD. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 103 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1853 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
884
WWUS82 KFFC 040521
SPSFFC
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
121 AM EDT WED APR 4 2018
GAZ019-020-030-031-041-042-040600-
Polk GA-Haralson GA-Bartow GA-Carroll GA-Paulding GA-Floyd GA-
121 AM EDT WED APR 4 2018
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR POLK...HARALSON...BARTOW...
NORTHWESTERN CARROLL...PAULDING AND FLOYD COUNTIES UNTIL 200 AM
EDT...
At 121 AM EDT...a line of strong thunderstorms was along a line
extending from near Coosa to near Cave Spring to Jacksonville...and
moving southeast at 55 mph.
HAZARD...Winds 40 to 50 mph.
IMPACT...Expect minor damage to tree limbs and blowing around of
light...unsecured objects.
Some locations in the path of these storms include
Rome, Cartersville, Dallas, Cedartown, Buchanan, Bremen, Adairsville,
Temple, Rockmart, Euharlee, Tallapoosa, Aragon, Cave Spring, White,
Kingston, Waco, Braswell, Taylorsville, Shannon and Cassville.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
People outdoors should seek shelter immediately.
LAT...LON 3435 8533 3440 8468 3380 8488 3362 8533
3417 8544
TIME...MOT...LOC 0521Z 305DEG 47KT 3429 8531 3411 8539 3382 8573
WIND...50MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 12:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Dade, Walker | 44 min |
| Apr 4, 1:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Fannin, Floyd, Gordon, Murray and 2 more | 49 min |
| Apr 4, 1:56 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow, Carroll, Cherokee, Cobb, Dawson, Douglas and 7 more | 49 min |
| Apr 4, 2:39 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, Coweta, Dawson, DeKalb, Forsyth, Fulton and 7 more | 36 min |
| Apr 4, 3:05 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Towns, White | 10 min |
| Apr 4, 3:10 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Clayton, Coweta, DeKalb, Fayette and 6 more | 35 min |
| Apr 4, 3:40 AM EDT | Freeze Warning | FFC | Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Dade, Dawson and 15 more | 29 hr |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.