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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Mar 25, 2021, 6:41 PM EDT for Whitfield County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 25, 2021, 6:41 PM EDT (22:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2021, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Hail
- 0.25 in
- Wind
- 50
County Whitfield County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 1602 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 397 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 647 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
005
WWUS82 KFFC 252241
SPSFFC
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
641 PM EDT Thu Mar 25 2021
GAZ002>005-011-012-252315-
Chattooga GA-Whitfield GA-Catoosa GA-Walker GA-Gordon GA-Murray GA-
641 PM EDT Thu Mar 25 2021
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN CHATTOOGA...
WHITFIELD...SOUTHEASTERN CATOOSA...SOUTHEASTERN WALKER...NORTHWESTERN
GORDON AND WESTERN MURRAY COUNTIES UNTIL 715 PM EDT...
At 640 PM EDT...a strong thunderstorm was over Naomi, or near
Lafayette...moving northeast at 50 mph.
HAZARD...40 to 50 mph wind...pea sized hail and frequent cloud to
ground lightning.
IMPACT...Expect minor damage to tree limbs and blowing around of
light...unsecured objects.
Some locations in the path of this storm include
Dalton, Lafayette, Chatsworth, Varnell, Eton, Tunnel Hill, Resaca,
Naomi, Sumac, Subligna, Suttles Mill, Rocky Face, Tilton, Mill Creek,
Beaverdale, Dawnville, Villanow, Nickelsville and North Georgia
Speedway.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
People outdoors should seek shelter immediately. If you can hear
thunder...you are close enough to be struck by lightning.
LAT...LON 3496 8488 3483 8474 3462 8474 3457 8506
3459 8507 3459 8511 3456 8512 3453 8528
3469 8532
TIME...MOT...LOC 2240Z 239DEG 45KT 3466 8521
HAIL...0.25IN
WIND...50MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 6:01 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris | 14 min |
| Mar 25, 6:23 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris | 37 min |
| Mar 25, 6:53 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether, Pike, Troup | 37 min |
| Mar 25, 10:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Walker, Whitfield | 53 min |
| Mar 25, 11:19 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gordon, Murray, Whitfield | 41 min |
| Mar 25, 11:46 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Walker, Whitfield | 10 hr |
| Mar 25, 12:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Murray | 30 min |
| Mar 25, 12:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 28 min |
| Mar 25, 12:17 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Dade | 31 hr |
| Mar 25, 12:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Haralson, Polk | 24 min |
| Mar 25, 12:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cobb, Floyd, Paulding, Polk | 49 min |
| Mar 25, 1:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb, Forsyth, Fulton | 26 min |
| Mar 25, 1:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Towns, Union | 36 min |
| Mar 25, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Cherokee, Cobb, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett and 2 more | 45 min |
| Mar 25, 2:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon, Polk | 42 min |
| Mar 25, 2:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks, Hall | 47 min |
| Mar 25, 2:42 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Catoosa | 43 hr |
| Mar 25, 2:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow, Polk | 27 min |
| Mar 25, 2:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Banks, Jackson, Madison | 11 min |
| Mar 25, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Paulding, Polk | 38 min |
| Mar 25, 3:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bartow, Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon, Polk | 13 hr |
| Mar 25, 3:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee, Forsyth | 37 min |
| Mar 25, 4:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 57 min |
| Mar 25, 4:49 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 35 hr |
| Mar 25, 4:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd | 46 min |
| Mar 25, 5:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Murray, Towns, Union, Whitfield | 10 hr |
| Mar 25, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Pickens | 38 min |
| Mar 25, 7:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow | 35 min |
| Mar 25, 7:37 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Whitfield | 4 days |
| Mar 25, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Fulton, Paulding | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.