Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 26, 2021, 5:34 AM EST for Coweta County, Fayette County, Georgia. It was in force for 41 min. 4 reports 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
- Jan 26, 2021, 5:34 AM EST (10:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 26, 2021, 6:15 AM EST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Coweta County, GA, Fayette County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 5:40 AM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Wsw Newnan, GA | A COUPLE TREES REPORTED DOWN WSW OF NEWNAN AROUND OLD CORINTH RD |
| Jan 26, 5:50 AM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 4 Sw Turin, GA | A COUPLE TREES REPORTED DOWN NEAR HWY 54, SW OF SHARPSBURG |
| Jan 26, 6:04 AM EST | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Nnw Brooks, GA | REPORT OF AN OLDER BARN BLOWN DOWN NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF MORGAN MILL RD AND WHITE WATER RD. |
| Jan 26, 6:05 AM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Haralson, GA | REPORT OF A TREE BLOWN DOWN IN HARALSON ALONG HWY 74. |
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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 17 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1306 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 323 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
062
WUUS52 KFFC 261034
SVRFFC
GAC077-113-261115-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0002.210126T1034Z-210126T1115Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
534 AM EST Tue Jan 26 2021
The National Weather Service in Peachtree City has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Fayette County in north central Georgia...
Coweta County in west central Georgia...
* Until 615 AM EST.
* At 534 AM EST, a severe thunderstorm was located near Newnan,
moving east at 50 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Newnan, Fayetteville, Peachtree City, Tyrone, Senoia, Grantville,
Brooks, Moreland, Sharpsburg, Turin, Haralson, Woolsey, East
Newnan, Plant Yates, Starrs Mill, Arnco-Sargent, Inman, Dunaway
Gardens, Cannongate and Lake Horton.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
If you see wind damage...hail or flooding...wait until the storm has
passed...and then call the National Weather Service toll free
at 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6 or tweet us your report at NWSATLANTA.
&&
LAT...LON 3344 8496 3344 8494 3345 8492 3348 8489
3348 8446 3340 8439 3338 8439 3337 8440
3333 8439 3326 8445 3326 8450 3325 8451
3322 8451 3322 8465 3323 8465 3322 8469
3323 8470 3322 8494 3328 8495 3330 8497
TIME...MOT...LOC 1034Z 272DEG 44KT 3334 8487
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$1 follow-up statement
970
WWUS52 KFFC 261048
SVSFFC
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
548 AM EST Tue Jan 26 2021
GAC077-113-261115-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-210126T1115Z/
Fayette GA-Coweta GA-
548 AM EST Tue Jan 26 2021
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 AM EST
FOR FAYETTE AND EASTERN COWETA COUNTIES...
At 548 AM EST, a severe thunderstorm was located over Sharpsburg, or
10 miles east of Newnan, moving east at 55 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Newnan, Fayetteville, Peachtree City, Tyrone, Senoia, Grantville,
Brooks, Moreland, Sharpsburg, Turin, Haralson, Woolsey, East Newnan,
Starrs Mill, Inman, Cannongate, Lake Horton, Thomas Crossroads and
Madras.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading
killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to
be struck by lightning.
&&
LAT...LON 3339 8479 3342 8478 3348 8474 3348 8446
3340 8439 3338 8439 3337 8440 3333 8439
3326 8445 3326 8450 3325 8451 3322 8451
3322 8465 3323 8465 3322 8469 3323 8470
3322 8483 3332 8480
TIME...MOT...LOC 1048Z 267DEG 49KT 3336 8462
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25, 8:17 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Walker | 28 min |
| Jan 25, 10:36 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga | 24 min |
| Jan 25, 10:59 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gordon | 31 min |
| Jan 26, 1:19 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Polk | 26 min |
| Jan 26, 1:45 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Paulding | 30 min |
| Jan 26, 2:07 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Paulding | 38 min |
| Jan 26, 2:15 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb, Paulding | 15 min |
| Jan 26, 2:32 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb, Forsyth | 28 min |
| Jan 26, 2:56 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hall | 34 min |
| Jan 26, 3:14 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Polk | 61 min |
| Jan 26, 3:37 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb, Paulding | 53 min |
| Jan 26, 5:09 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Heard | 36 min |
| Jan 26, 5:31 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 44 min |
| Jan 26, 6:04 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry, Spalding | 41 min |
| Jan 26, 6:06 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether, Pike | 39 min |
| Jan 26, 6:09 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette, Spalding | 33 min |
| Jan 26, 6:28 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry, Jasper, Newton, Spalding | 32 min |
| Jan 26, 8:14 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 5 hr |
| Jan 26, 11:18 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Twiggs | 27 min |
| Jan 26, 12:01 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 29 min |
| Jan 26, 12:50 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton | 24 hr |
| Jan 26, 1:15 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson | 45 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.