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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 3, 2021Clarke County, Oconee County, Walton County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at May 3, 2021, 4:31 PM EDT for Clarke County, Oconee County, Walton County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 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: May 3, 2021, 4:31 PM EDT (20:31 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 2021, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 50

Counties Clarke County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Walton County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 113 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 674 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 671 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 207 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 272 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 4.8

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The text

As transmitted.

921 
WWUS82 KFFC 032031
SPSFFC

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
431 PM EDT Mon May 3 2021
 
GAZ035>037-047-049-032100-
Morgan GA-Walton GA-Barrow GA-Clarke GA-Oconee GA-
431 PM EDT Mon May 3 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN MORGAN...NORTHEASTERN
WALTON...SOUTHERN BARROW...CLARKE AND OCONEE COUNTIES UNTIL 500 PM
EDT...

At 431 PM EDT...a strong thunderstorm was over Nicholasville, or near
Monroe...moving east at 55 mph.

  HAZARD...40 to 50 mph wind...up to penny 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
Winder, Monroe, Watkinsville, Athens, Statham, Winterville, Bogart,
North High Shoals, Bethlehem, Bostwick, Between, Good Hope, Bishop,
Hull, Whitehall, Athens-Clarke County, Westgate Park, Fort Yargo
State Park, Beechwood Hills and Oconee Heights.

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 3400 8326 3395 8328 3390 8324 3381 8330
      3379 8328 3376 8328 3373 8330 3370 8340
      3369 8340 3379 8384 3391 8383 3393 8380
      3398 8382 3401 8355 3397 8354 3399 8350
      3400 8350 3399 8348 3402 8341 3403 8333
TIME...MOT...LOC 2031Z 274DEG 49KT 3388 8374 

HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...50MPH

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 3, 8:50 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Carroll	25 min
May 3, 9:11 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel	34 min
May 3, 9:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Carroll	32 min
May 3, 9:46 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Douglas	29 min
May 3, 10:14 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, Douglas, Fulton	31 min
May 3, 10:21 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Douglas, Fulton	24 min
May 3, 10:44 AM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton	31 min
May 3, 11:10 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Meriwether, Troup	50 min
May 3, 11:10 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Gwinnett	32 min
May 3, 11:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clayton	32 min
May 3, 11:38 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Gwinnett, Rockdale	37 min
May 3, 11:53 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Gwinnett, Rockdale, Walton	37 min
May 3, 11:58 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Paulding, Polk	32 min
May 3, 12:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Meriwether, Pike	42 min
May 3, 12:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Barrow, Clarke, Jackson	23 min
May 3, 12:28 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Carroll, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Forsyth and 5 more	8 hr
May 3, 12:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Barrow	27 min
May 3, 12:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Clarke, Jackson, Madison, Oglethorpe	24 min
May 3, 12:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Clarke, Jackson, Madison, Oglethorpe	33 min
May 3, 12:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cobb	29 min
May 3, 12:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Jackson, Madison	27 min
May 3, 12:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts, Spalding	36 min
May 3, 1:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Jasper, Lamar, Monroe, Spalding	42 min
May 3, 1:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clarke	24 min
May 3, 1:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clarke, Madison, Oglethorpe	28 min
May 3, 1:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Madison	11 min
May 3, 1:26 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Butts, Jasper	34 min
May 3, 1:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Madison, Oglethorpe	33 min
May 3, 1:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Jasper, Jones, Monroe, Putnam	34 min
May 3, 2:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Talbot	45 min
May 3, 2:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin	43 min
May 3, 2:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris, Muscogee	35 min
May 3, 3:01 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	DeKalb	7 hr
May 3, 3:02 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Forsyth, Fulton	67 hr
May 3, 3:03 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Polk	11 hr
May 3, 3:06 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	DeKalb	7 hr
May 3, 3:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Glascock, Hancock, Jefferson, Washington	39 min
May 3, 3:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Upson	31 min
May 3, 3:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Marion	29 min
May 3, 3:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Oglethorpe	34 min
May 3, 3:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Glascock, Jefferson, Washington	34 min
May 3, 3:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wilkes	13 min
May 3, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jefferson	24 min
May 3, 4:21 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Newton, Rockdale	66 hr
May 3, 4:34 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Cobb	6 hr
May 3, 4:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Washington	23 min
May 3, 4:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Coweta	37 min
May 3, 4:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Twiggs, Wilkinson	46 min
May 3, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Glascock, Hancock, Warren, Washington	29 min
May 3, 5:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clayton	24 min
May 3, 5:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Washington, Wilkinson	24 min
May 3, 5:29 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	7 hr
May 3, 5:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	FFC	Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll and 63 more	32 hr
May 3, 5:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Paulding, Polk	29 min
May 3, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Glascock, Jefferson, Washington	44 min
May 3, 5:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkes	24 min
May 3, 6:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Polk	27 min
May 3, 6:41 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton	3 hr
May 3, 6:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel, Treutlen	25 min
May 3, 7:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Pickens	33 min
May 3, 7:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel	27 min
May 3, 7:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Troup	36 min
May 3, 7:45 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Polk	4 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.