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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 4, 20195 counties in Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at May 4, 2019, 9:54 AM EDT for 5 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 51 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 4, 2019, 9:54 AM EDT (13:54 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 2019, 10:45 AM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 40

Counties Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Dade County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Walker County, GA

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 145 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 872 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 968 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at May 4, 7:40 AM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 4, 7:40 AM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 4, 9:54 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
954 AM EDT Sat May 4 2019

GAZ001>004-011-019-041445-
Chattooga GA-Whitfield GA-Catoosa GA-Walker GA-Dade GA-Floyd GA-
954 AM EDT Sat May 4 2019

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CHATTOOGA...SOUTHWESTERN
WHITFIELD...CATOOSA...WALKER...DADE AND FLOYD COUNTIES UNTIL 1045 AM
EDT...

At 954 AM EDT...a line of strong thunderstorms was along a line
extending from near Russell Cave National Monument to near Mentone to
Waterhouse...and moving east at 35 mph.

  HAZARD...Up to 40 mph wind...pea sized hail and frequent cloud to
           ground lightning.

  IMPACT...Expect minor damage to tree limbs and blowing around of
           light...unsecured objects.

Some locations in the path of these storms include
Rome, Lafayette, Summerville, Ringgold, Trenton, Fort Oglethorpe,
Rossville, Chickamauga, Trion, Lookout Mountain, Tunnel Hill,
Shannon, Lyerly, Menlo, Center Post, Subligna, Fairview, Coosa,
Villanow and Cloudland.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

People outdoors should seek shelter immediately. If you can hear
thunder...you are close enough to be struck by lightning.

LAT...LON 3499 8503 3461 8505 3462 8505 3454 8506
      3454 8509 3447 8509 3446 8511 3443 8509
      3441 8511 3440 8509 3430 8511 3416 8544
      3498 8560
TIME...MOT...LOC 1354Z 259DEG 31KT 3494 8581 3458 8553 3421 8546

HAIL...0.25IN
WIND...40MPH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 4, 10:43 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Catoosa, Gordon, Murray, Whitfield	32 min
May 4, 11:24 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Murray	36 min
May 4, 11:51 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Forsyth	24 min
May 4, 12:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gilmer	36 min
May 4, 12:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin, Gilmer	45 min
May 4, 12:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Pickens	24 min
May 4, 12:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cobb	33 min
May 4, 12:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Oconee	31 min
May 4, 12:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Hall	30 min
May 4, 12:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dawson	36 min
May 4, 12:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Dawson, Pickens	23 min
May 4, 12:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lumpkin, Union, White	48 min
May 4, 1:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Banks	30 min
May 4, 1:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dawson, Lumpkin	25 min
May 4, 1:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Forsyth	34 min
May 4, 1:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Towns, Union	33 min
May 4, 1:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gwinnett	29 min
May 4, 1:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Toombs	13 min
May 4, 1:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Barrow	35 min
May 4, 1:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Hall, Lumpkin, White	31 min
May 4, 1:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Towns	30 min
May 4, 2:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Hall	25 min
May 4, 2:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkes	11 min
May 4, 2:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Oglethorpe	21 min
May 4, 2:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Banks	10 min
May 4, 2:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkes	15 min
May 4, 2:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Banks	12 min
May 4, 3:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Oconee	17 min
May 4, 4:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin	10 min
May 4, 6:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkes	30 min
May 4, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wilkes	34 min
May 4, 6:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Oconee	35 min
May 4, 6:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkes	18 min
May 4, 7:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Meriwether	13 min
May 4, 7:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Meriwether	29 min

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.