Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 2021, 1:28 PM EDT for 5 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 32 min. 2 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
- May 4, 2021, 1:28 PM EDT (17:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2021, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Carroll County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Paulding County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 1:28 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Sse Dallas, GA | EMERGENCY MANAGMENT REPORTING A COUPLE OF TREES DOWNED ON DAVIS MILL RD NEAR RENFROE RD AND MUSTANG DR. OTHER POWERLINES AND ROAD HAZARDS ALSO REPORTED AROUND THE DALLAS AREA. |
| May 4, 1:45 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Ene Smyrna, GA | TREE AND ADDITIONAL LIMBS REPORTED DOWN NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF WINDY HILL RD SE AND SOUTH PARK PLACE NW. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 10:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 58 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
- 590 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 753 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted.
059
WUUS52 KFFC 041728
SVRFFC
GAC045-067-097-143-223-041800-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0074.210504T1728Z-210504T1800Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
128 PM EDT Tue May 4 2021
The National Weather Service in Peachtree City has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Paulding County in northwestern Georgia...
Southeastern Haralson County in northwestern Georgia...
Cobb County in north central Georgia...
Northeastern Carroll County in northwestern Georgia...
Northern Douglas County in north central Georgia...
* Until 200 PM EDT.
* At 128 PM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from New Hope to Temple, moving east at 50 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Trained weather spotters.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Marietta, Douglasville, Dallas, Smyrna, Kennesaw, Villa Rica,
Powder Springs, Austell, Bremen, Temple, Hiram, Waco, Lithia
Springs, Fair Oaks, Mount Bethel, Lost Mountain Park, Vinings,
Brownsville, Cross Roads and Draketown.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
To report severe weather, contact your nearest law enforcement
agency. They will send your report to the National Weather Service
office in Peachtree City.
Large hail and damaging winds and continuous cloud to ground
lightning is occurring with these storms. 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.
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 3373 8521 3401 8487 3404 8441 3402 8440
3401 8440 3399 8438 3396 8439 3391 8445
3389 8444 3387 8446 3383 8446 3379 8453
3371 8461 3369 8518
TIME...MOT...LOC 1728Z 262DEG 44KT 3395 8480 3374 8506
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$1 follow-up statement
994
WWUS52 KFFC 041752
SVSFFC
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
152 PM EDT Tue May 4 2021
GAC045-143-041802-
/O.CAN.KFFC.SV.W.0074.000000T0000Z-210504T1800Z/
Haralson GA-Carroll GA-
152 PM EDT Tue May 4 2021
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN HARALSON AND
NORTHEASTERN CARROLL COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
The storms which prompted the warning have moved out of the warned
area. Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 500 PM EDT for
north central and northwestern Georgia.
LAT...LON 3374 8490 3403 8457 3404 8441 3401 8440
3399 8438 3396 8439 3391 8445 3389 8444
3387 8446 3383 8446 3379 8453 3371 8461
3371 8490 3372 8491
TIME...MOT...LOC 1752Z 262DEG 44KT 3399 8445 3378 8471
$$
GAC067-097-223-041800-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0074.000000T0000Z-210504T1800Z/
Paulding GA-Cobb GA-Douglas GA-
152 PM EDT Tue May 4 2021
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM EDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN PAULDING...COBB AND NORTHERN DOUGLAS COUNTIES...
At 152 PM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from near Mount Bethel to near Lithia Springs, moving east
at 50 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Trained weather spotters.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Marietta, Douglasville, Smyrna, Kennesaw, Villa Rica, Powder Springs,
Austell, Hiram, Lithia Springs, Fair Oaks, Mount Bethel, Sweetwater
Creek State Park, White Water Park, Vinings, Brownsville, Jim R
Miller Park, Winston, Lake Val-Do-Mar, Sandy Plains and Dobbins Air
Reserve Base.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
To report severe weather contact your nearest law enforcement agency.
They will send your report to the National Weather Service office in
Peachtree City.
Continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring with these storms.
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 3374 8490 3403 8457 3404 8441 3401 8440
3399 8438 3396 8439 3391 8445 3389 8444
3387 8446 3383 8446 3379 8453 3371 8461
3371 8490 3372 8491
TIME...MOT...LOC 1752Z 262DEG 44KT 3399 8445 3378 8471
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 8:01 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett, Walton | 2 hr |
| May 3, 8:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris | 36 min |
| May 3, 8:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Talbot | 30 min |
| May 3, 9:14 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Rockdale | 48 hr |
| May 3, 9:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 22 min |
| May 3, 9:58 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Heard | 12 hr |
| May 3, 9:58 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb, Douglas | 12 hr |
| May 3, 9:58 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Clarke, Greene, Oconee | 37 hr |
| May 3, 9:58 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 3 hr |
| May 3, 11:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 67 min |
| May 4, 12:48 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery, Treutlen | 27 min |
| May 4, 1:17 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery, Toombs | 28 min |
| May 4, 1:36 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Newton, Rockdale | 9 hr |
| May 4, 4:34 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 5 hr |
| May 4, 10:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker | 48 min |
| May 4, 11:01 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Walker | 29 min |
| May 4, 11:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Walker, Whitfield | 25 min |
| May 4, 11:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Murray, Walker, Whitfield | 35 min |
| May 4, 11:48 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga | 42 min |
| May 4, 11:57 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin | 33 min |
| May 4, 12:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon | 57 min |
| May 4, 12:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Floyd, Gilmer, Gordon, Polk | 31 min |
| May 4, 12:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Dawson, Gilmer, Gordon, Pickens | 40 min |
| May 4, 12:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Paulding, Polk | 31 min |
| May 4, 1:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson, Paulding | 32 min |
| May 4, 1:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks, Hall, White | 28 min |
| May 4, 1:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth, Gwinnett | 27 min |
| May 4, 1:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall | 38 min |
| May 4, 2:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Carroll, Floyd, Haralson, Paulding, Polk | 44 min |
| May 4, 2:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb, Rockdale, Walton | 25 min |
| May 4, 2:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks | 35 min |
| May 4, 2:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Barrow | 19 min |
| May 4, 2:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Barrow, Clarke, Jackson, Madison, Newton, Oconee and 2 more | 34 min |
| May 4, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Carroll, Cherokee, Cobb, Douglas, Fulton and 3 more | 48 min |
| May 4, 3:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Barrow, Carroll, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton and 6 more | 7 hr |
| May 4, 3:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Morgan | 26 min |
| May 4, 3:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Heard | 25 min |
| May 4, 4:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 32 min |
| May 4, 4:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry, Spalding | 29 min |
| May 4, 5:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jones | 37 min |
| May 4, 5:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilcox | 24 min |
| May 4, 6:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bleckley, Pulaski | 28 min |
| May 4, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Pulaski | 36 min |
| May 4, 7:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Houston, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 28 min |
| May 4, 7:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Muscogee, Troup | 39 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.