Alert archive / Georgia / Special Weather Statements in 2021
Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Mar 31, 2021, 11:26 AM EDT for Haralson County, Paulding County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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
- Mar 31, 2021, 11:26 AM EDT (15:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2021, 12:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Wind
- 40
Counties Haralson County, GA, Paulding County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 11:46 AM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Ene Draketown, GA | ONE TREE DOWN AT MUD GREEN ROAD AND ALLGOOD CHURCH ROAD. |
| Mar 31, 11:46 AM EDT | NON-TSTM WND DMG | 1 Ene Draketown, GA | ONE TREE DOWN AT MUD GREEN ROAD AND ALLGOOD CHURCH ROAD. |
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 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 296 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
596
WWUS82 KFFC 311526
SPSFFC
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
1126 AM EDT Wed Mar 31 2021
GAZ030-031-041-042-311600-
Polk GA-Haralson GA-Carroll GA-Paulding GA-
1126 AM EDT Wed Mar 31 2021
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN POLK...HARALSON...
NORTHWESTERN CARROLL AND PAULDING COUNTIES UNTIL NOON EDT...
At 1125 AM EDT...a line of strong thunderstorms was along a line
extending from Aragon to Felton to near Mars Hills...and moving east
at 35 mph.
HAZARD...Up to 40 mph wind...frequent cloud to ground lightning
and heavy rain.
IMPACT...Expect minor damage to tree limbs and blowing around of
light...unsecured objects. Heavy rain may cause temporary
street flooding especially in poor drainage areas.
Some locations in the path of these storms include
Dallas, Buchanan, Bremen, Temple, Rockmart, Tallapoosa, Mount Zion,
Aragon, Waco, Braswell, Yorkville, Fish Creek, Eubank Lake, Antioch,
Van Wert, Draketown and Felton.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
People outdoors should seek shelter immediately. If you can hear
thunder...you are close enough to be struck by lightning. Motorists
should slow down and be prepared for possible loss of control due to
hydroplaning.
LAT...LON 3391 8527 3408 8510 3400 8479 3376 8492
3360 8532 3361 8533 3386 8538
TIME...MOT...LOC 1525Z 286DEG 30KT 3404 8506 3390 8520 3379 8542
WIND...40MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 7:04 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Walker | 41 min |
| Mar 31, 7:46 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker | 5 hr |
| Mar 31, 8:16 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bartow, Chattooga, Fannin, Floyd, Gilmer, Gordon and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 31, 8:19 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Paulding | 26 min |
| Mar 31, 9:07 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Dade | 29 hr |
| Mar 31, 9:08 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Whitfield | 5 hr |
| Mar 31, 9:09 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb, Douglas, Fulton | 36 min |
| Mar 31, 9:15 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Chattooga | 27 hr |
| Mar 31, 9:15 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Floyd | 45 hr |
| Mar 31, 9:15 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gordon, Murray, Whitfield | 4 days |
| Mar 31, 9:15 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Floyd, Gordon | 4 days |
| Mar 31, 9:23 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Catoosa | 49 hr |
| Mar 31, 9:38 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gwinnett | 37 min |
| Mar 31, 9:44 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Whitfield | 71 hr |
| Mar 31, 9:53 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Douglas, Fulton | 22 min |
| Mar 31, 9:54 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 44 hr |
| Mar 31, 11:58 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Cobb, Douglas | 32 min |
| Mar 31, 1:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fayette | 33 min |
| Mar 31, 1:31 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb | 21 days |
| Mar 31, 2:00 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Catoosa | 19 hr |
| Mar 31, 2:21 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton | 21 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Oglethorpe | 30 min |
| Mar 31, 3:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene | 27 min |
| Mar 31, 3:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion, Stewart | 31 min |
| Mar 31, 3:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkes | 31 min |
| Mar 31, 4:22 PM EDT | Freeze Watch | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Catoosa and 44 more | 11 hr |
| Mar 31, 4:22 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts, Carroll and 64 more | 27 hr |
| Mar 31, 5:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bleckley, Dooly, Houston, Pulaski, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 37 min |
| Mar 31, 5:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock, Washington | 37 min |
| Mar 31, 5:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Pulaski, Wilcox | 25 min |
| Mar 31, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 31 min |
| Mar 31, 6:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel, Treutlen, Wheeler | 25 min |
| Mar 31, 6:22 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Murray | 7 hr |
| Mar 31, 6:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel, Montgomery, Telfair, Treutlen, Wheeler | 30 min |
| Mar 31, 7:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel, Montgomery, Telfair, Toombs | 30 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.