Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 2021, 8:46 PM EDT for Stewart County, Webster County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 min. 10 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, 8:46 PM EDT (00:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2021, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Stewart County, GA, Webster County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:49 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, 9:09 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Nnw Seminole, GA | TREES WERE DOWNED ON SEMINOLE ROAD AT MILE MARKERS 6 AND 8. |
| May 4, 9:12 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Ene Richland, GA | THE ROOF WAS BLOWN OFF A POLE BARN ON HIGHWAY 280 NEAR MILE MARKER 1. |
| May 4, 9:13 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Ssw Church Hill, GA | TREES WERE DOWNED ON WILSON POND ROAD. |
| May 4, 9:13 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 4 Nw Preston, GA | TREES WERE DOWNED ON 1800 BLOCK OF SEARS ROAD. |
| May 4, 9:18 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Ne Kimbrough, GA | POWER LINES AND POLE WERE DOWNED AT INTERSECTION OF WEST CENTERPOINT ROAD AND MILLARD KENNEDY ROAD. |
| May 4, 9:19 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 N Preston, GA | TREES WERE DOWNED ON HIGHWAY 41 JUST NORTH OF PRESTON. |
| May 4, 9:21 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Sw Preston, GA | MULTIPLE TREES WERE DOWNED ON KENNEDY POND ROAD IN THE VICINITY MILLARD KENNEDY ROAD. |
| May 4, 9:22 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 N Centerpoint, GA | TREES WERE DOWNED ON POPLAR SPRINGS ROAD WEST OF MACEDONIA CHURCH ROAD. |
| May 4, 9:23 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Ene Leveretts, GA | A TREE WAS DOWNED ONTO A VEHICLE ON FOREMAN ROAD. A TREE WAS ALSO DOWNED NEARBY ONTO POWER LINES ON BEN WILLIAMS ROAD NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF MILL POND ROAD. |
| May 4, 9:25 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Ne Centerpoint, GA | MULTIPLE TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN ON SPANNS MILL ROAD BETWEEN MACEDONIA CHURCH ROAD AND RURAL HILL CHURCH ROAD. |
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, 7:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 860 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
401
WUUS52 KFFC 050046
SVRFFC
GAC259-307-050130-
/O.NEW.KFFC.SV.W.0081.210505T0046Z-210505T0130Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
846 PM EDT Tue May 4 2021
The National Weather Service in Peachtree City has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Stewart County in west central Georgia...
Webster County in west central Georgia...
* Until 930 PM EDT.
* At 845 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Seale, or 16
miles east of Hurtsboro, moving east at 50 mph.
HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect considerable
tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to mobile homes,
roofs, and outbuildings.
* Locations impacted include...
Lumpkin, Preston, Richland, Weston, Seminole, Charles, Kimbrough,
Westville, Brooklyn, Leveretts, Omaha, Church Hill, Centerpoint,
Dumas, Louvale and Providence Canyon State Park.
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 3201 8505 3209 8504 3213 8506 3218 8501
3220 8496 3222 8498 3222 8493 3223 8492
3223 8482 3222 8480 3223 8480 3223 8462
3219 8459 3219 8457 3218 8456 3217 8454
3213 8453 3213 8443 3193 8444 3192 8449
TIME...MOT...LOC 0045Z 278DEG 44KT 3220 8514
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...70MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 8:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Heard, Troup | 4 hr |
| May 4, 8:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Harris, Meriwether, Muscogee, Talbot, Troup | 50 min |
| May 4, 8:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge | 26 min |
| May 4, 8:41 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Polk | 10 hr |
| May 4, 8:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion | 50 min |
| May 4, 8:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Meriwether, Pike, Spalding | 32 min |
| May 4, 9:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford, Lamar, Macon, Marion, Meriwether, Monroe and 8 more | 45 min |
| May 4, 9:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Telfair | 25 min |
| May 4, 9:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Crisp, Dooly, Houston, Lamar and 7 more | 25 min |
| May 4, 10:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Telfair | 29 min |
| May 4, 10:14 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 8 hr |
| May 4, 10:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb, Bleckley, Crisp, Dodge, Dooly, Houston and 5 more | 29 min |
| May 4, 10:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin, Bleckley, Dodge, Jones, Laurens, Telfair and 3 more | 44 min |
| May 4, 10:51 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb, Douglas | 64 hr |
| May 4, 11:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel, Glascock, Jefferson, Johnson, Montgomery, Telfair and 4 more | 49 min |
| May 4, 11:32 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb | 7 hr |
| May 5, 12:42 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 11 hr |
| May 5, 12:55 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb | 10 hr |
| May 5, 1:45 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Haralson | 24 hr |
| May 5, 2:42 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett, Walton | 4 hr |
| May 5, 5:51 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Bibb, Houston, Jones, Monroe, Twiggs | 4 days |
| May 5, 6:36 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 9 hr |
| May 5, 6:46 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Heard | 19 hr |
| May 5, 11:07 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb, Paulding | 18 hr |
| May 5, 3:08 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Floyd | 31 hr |
| May 5, 6:12 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb, Douglas | 19 hr |
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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.