Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 2021, 7:23 PM EDT for Carroll County, Haralson County, Paulding County, Georgia. It was in force for 52 min. 7 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
- Apr 24, 2021, 7:23 PM EDT (23:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2021, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Carroll County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Paulding County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 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 24, 7:40 PM EDT | TSTM WND GST 43 | 4 Sse Tallapoosa, GA | MESONET STATION GA343 I-20 AT SR 100. |
| Apr 24, 7:52 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Wsw Union, GA | A TREE AND POWER LINE WERE DOWNED ON BUCHANAN HIGHWAY NEAR COURTHOUSE ROAD. |
| Apr 24, 7:52 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 E Draketown, GA | A TREE AND POWER LINE WERE DOWNED ON HUNEYSUCKLE LANE NEAR HIGHWAY 101. |
| Apr 24, 7:53 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Union, GA | TREE REPORTED DOWN ON THE ROADWAY NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF MULBERRY ROCK RD AND BUCHANAN HWY |
| Apr 24, 7:54 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Se Union, GA | TREE REPORTED DOWN ON THE ROADWAY NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF HARMONY RD AND BUD COLE RD |
| Apr 24, 7:55 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Union, GA | A TREE WAS DOWNED ON OLD YORKVILLE ROAD AT HIGHWAY 101. |
| Apr 24, 7:56 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | 3 Wsw Abilene, GA | QURTER SIZE HAIL FELL ON LAUREL CREEK COURT. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 449 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 309 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 449 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
619
WUUS52 KFFC 242323
SVRFFC
GAC045-143-223-250015-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0044.210424T2323Z-210425T0015Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
723 PM EDT Sat Apr 24 2021
The National Weather Service in Peachtree City has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southwestern Paulding County in northwestern Georgia...
Haralson County in northwestern Georgia...
Northwestern Carroll County in northwestern Georgia...
* Until 815 PM EDT.
* At 723 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over I 20 Welcome
Center, or 12 miles east of Heflin, moving east at 35 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Carrollton, Buchanan, Villa Rica, Bremen, Temple, Tallapoosa, Mount
Zion, Waco, Abilene, Draketown and Bowdon Junction.
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 3390 8503 3379 8493 3362 8498 3360 8533
3383 8537
TIME...MOT...LOC 2323Z 255DEG 33KT 3369 8538
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 8:57 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Stewart | 33 min |
| Apr 24, 10:19 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilcox | 26 min |
| Apr 24, 4:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 24 min |
| Apr 24, 4:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 25 min |
| Apr 24, 4:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb | 34 min |
| Apr 24, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett, Newton, Rockdale and 1 more | 51 min |
| Apr 24, 5:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Douglas | 34 min |
| Apr 24, 5:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Heard | 23 min |
| Apr 24, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Troup | 43 min |
| Apr 24, 5:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fulton | 24 min |
| Apr 24, 5:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Douglas | 35 min |
| Apr 24, 5:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jasper, Putnam | 34 min |
| Apr 24, 5:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Heard | 33 min |
| Apr 24, 5:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Barrow, Gwinnett, Jackson | 52 min |
| Apr 24, 5:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth, Hall | 48 min |
| Apr 24, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Meriwether, Spalding, Troup | 26 min |
| Apr 24, 6:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clarke, Madison | 33 min |
| Apr 24, 6:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth | 31 min |
| Apr 24, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 26 min |
| Apr 24, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Forsyth, Fulton | 40 min |
| Apr 24, 7:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Talbot | 28 min |
| Apr 24, 7:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson | 25 min |
| Apr 24, 7:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga | 24 min |
| Apr 24, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 46 min |
| Apr 24, 7:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth, Hall, Lumpkin, White | 38 min |
| Apr 24, 7:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cobb, Haralson, Paulding, Polk | 50 min |
| Apr 24, 7:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Fulton, Heard | 35 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.