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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Oct 10, 2020, 6:51 PM EDT for Toombs County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
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The facts
- Issued
- Oct 10, 2020, 6:51 PM EDT (22:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 10, 2020, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Wind
- 40
County Toombs County, GA
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NWS Atlanta, GA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Oct 10, 3:28 PM EDT, 3 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 10, 3:28 PM EDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Peachtree City GA 328 PM EDT Sat Oct 10 2020 .SHORT TERM /Tonight through Sunday Night/... Tropical Depression Delta was located over western MS this afternoon and should track northeastward overnight...arriving over the southern Appalachians as an open wave Sunday morning. The surface warm front appears to have moved into north GA except for the far northern counties where easterly winds and some patchy fog persist. Continued southerly flow of moist unstable air should produce periods of showers and a few thunderstorms through much of the afternoon and overnight. The best chance for strong storms appears to be through 01z and a portion of north and west GA is under a Tornado Watch until then. Best pops remain over north GA on Sunday as the remains of Delta pass across the area. So the FFA will remain in place until Sunday evening. Storm totals range form two to four inches in the watch area with lesser amounts elsewhere. 41 .LONG TERM /Monday through Saturday/... By Monday, the remnants of Hurricane Delta will be pushed out of the area with primarily dry and mostly sunny days expected through the long term forecast. While dry air will have moved in with in the upper-levels, ample moisture will remain near the ground with the aftermath of the rain system. With an upper-level trough over the upper Mississippi River Valley bringing positive differential vorticity advection over the area by Monday morning, light lift could produce some shallow light showers and drizzle Monday morning, but chances of accumulating rain is low for any given area at the moment. As the upper-level trough passes trough the Eastern CONUS, it'll bring with it a cold front that's expected to move through the forecast area Monday night through Tuesday morning, with lows dropping into the 50s Tuesday night; low 50s for North Georgia, and upper 50s for Central Georgia. The frontal passage is expected to be mostly dry but an outside chance for some showers are possible for far North Georgia. Behind the front a strong, continental high pressure will move into the region. From then on, quasi-zonal conditions will setup for several day until our next upper-level wave moves through on Friday with another strong cold front. Again, this front is mostly expected to be dry but the moisture with this system is trending upwards so slight chance Pops have been added to the forecast. Afterwards highs around 80 for the metro for most of the week should drop to around 70 on Friday afternoon. Thiem && AVIATION... 18Z Update... Some MVFR ceilings persisting through the afternoon mainly KATL area taf sites. KCSG/KMCN are expected to see VFR for much of the afternoon and evening. All TAF sites will have off and on SHRA with best timing 18-06Z. A few severe TSTMs possible until 01z. Ceilings expected to lower back to IFR after 02z. Winds will stay E/SE through the night with a shift to S/SW after 14z Sunday. Wind speeds will be 8-12kts with occasional gusts possible. //ATL Confidence... 18Z Update... Medium confidence all elements. Atwell && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Athens 69 78 67 81 / 70 80 40 20 Atlanta 69 76 67 80 / 90 70 40 20 Blairsville 64 71 63 76 / 90 90 60 20 Cartersville 69 76 66 82 / 90 80 30 20 Columbus 71 81 67 85 / 70 60 10 10 Gainesville 68 75 67 79 / 90 90 50 20 Macon 70 84 67 86 / 60 60 20 20 Rome 69 76 66 84 / 90 90 30 20 Peachtree City 69 77 66 81 / 90 70 30 20 Vidalia 73 84 69 84 / 50 60 20 20 && .FFC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... Tornado Watch until 9 PM EDT this evening for the following zones: Carroll...Chattahoochee...Clayton...Cobb...Coweta... DeKalb...Douglas...Fayette...Haralson...Harris...Heard... Meriwether...Muscogee...North Fulton...Paulding...Polk...South Fulton...Troup. Flash Flood Watch through Sunday evening for the following zones: Fannin...Lumpkin...Towns...Union...White. && SHORT TERM...41 LONG TERM....Thiem AVIATION...41
Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 10, 2:21 PM EDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Oct 10, 5:53 PM EDT, 58 minutes before
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Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
626 PM EDT Sat Oct 10 2020
GAZ019-030-041-042-102300-
Polk GA-Haralson GA-Carroll GA-Floyd GA-
626 PM EDT Sat Oct 10 2020
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR POLK...HARALSON...NORTHWESTERN
CARROLL AND SOUTHWESTERN FLOYD COUNTIES UNTIL 700 PM EDT...
At 625 PM EDT...National Weather Service doppler radar indicated a
strong storm within a tropical rain band along a line extending from
Cave Spring to near Tallapoosa...and moving north at 30 mph.
HAZARD...enhanced risk of a brief tornado.
IMPACT...Storms embedded within a tropical rainband have exhibited
localized rotation. A brief tornado could quickly form.
Some locations in the path of these storms include
Rome, Cedartown, Buchanan, Bremen, Tallapoosa, Mount Zion, Cave
Spring, Waco, Fish Creek, Etna, Lindale, Eubank Lake, Esom Hill,
Antioch, Seney, Draketown, Felton and Coosa.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
People outdoors should seek shelter immediately.
LAT...LON 3436 8521 3378 8502 3354 8531 3418 8544
TIME...MOT...LOC 2225Z 196DEG 26KT 3409 8535 3371 8526Special weather statement, Oct 10, 6:26 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Oct 10, 4:01 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb, Dawson, DeKalb, Fannin, Forsyth and 10 more | 24 hr |
| Oct 10, 4:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion, Muscogee, Stewart | 27 min |
| Oct 10, 4:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris | 31 min |
| Oct 10, 4:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 51 min |
| Oct 10, 4:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jackson | 32 min |
| Oct 10, 5:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Walton | 29 min |
| Oct 10, 5:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Muscogee | 27 min |
| Oct 10, 5:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 33 min |
| Oct 10, 5:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Gwinnett, Walton | 32 min |
| Oct 10, 5:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion | 28 min |
| Oct 10, 5:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 25 min |
| Oct 10, 5:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Pike, Talbot, Upson | 48 min |
| Oct 10, 5:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Heard | 24 min |
| Oct 10, 5:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Heard | 37 min |
| Oct 10, 5:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 32 min |
| Oct 10, 5:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Webster | 31 min |
| Oct 10, 5:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Talbot | 29 min |
| Oct 10, 5:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris | 37 min |
| Oct 10, 6:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 27 min |
| Oct 10, 6:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Fulton | 35 min |
| Oct 10, 6:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Talbot, Taylor, Upson | 34 min |
| Oct 10, 6:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pike | 29 min |
| Oct 10, 6:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Pike, Spalding | 24 min |
| Oct 10, 6:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Johnson, Washington | 36 min |
| Oct 10, 6:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Floyd, Haralson, Polk | 34 min |
| Oct 10, 6:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Fulton | 27 min |
| Oct 10, 6:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Hall, Jackson | 48 min |
| Oct 10, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Haralson, Polk | 31 min |
| Oct 10, 6:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Lamar, Monroe, Upson | 45 min |
| Oct 10, 6:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette, Henry, Spalding | 26 min |
| Oct 10, 6:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 35 min |
| Oct 10, 6:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris | 34 min |
| Oct 10, 7:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, Cobb, Douglas, Fulton, Paulding | 28 min |
| Oct 10, 7:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Henry, Spalding | 25 min |
| Oct 10, 7:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 28 min |
| Oct 10, 7:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry, Lamar, Monroe | 36 min |
| Oct 10, 7:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon | 34 min |
| Oct 10, 7:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton | 33 min |
| Oct 10, 7:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 22 min |
| Oct 10, 7:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Henry | 28 min |
| Oct 10, 7:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry | 23 min |
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