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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at May 4, 2021, 11:01 AM EDT for Walker 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 4, 2021, 11:01 AM EDT (15:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2021, 11:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Hail
- 0.25 in
- Wind
- 50
County Walker County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:04 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 163 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.
679
WWUS82 KFFC 041501
SPSFFC
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
1101 AM EDT Tue May 4 2021
GAZ001-002-004-011-041530-
Chattooga GA-Whitfield GA-Walker GA-Dade GA-
1101 AM EDT Tue May 4 2021
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN CHATTOOGA...
SOUTHWESTERN WHITFIELD...SOUTHERN WALKER AND SOUTHWESTERN DADE
COUNTIES UNTIL 1130 AM EDT...
At 1101 AM EDT...a strong thunderstorm was over Cloudland, or 9 miles
northwest of Summerville...moving east at 55 mph.
HAZARD...Winds 40 to 50 mph...pea sized hail...frequent 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 this storm include
Lafayette, Trion, Menlo, Naomi, Center Post, Linwood, Suttles Mill,
Villanow and Cloudland.
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.
A severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect. Continue to monitor
NOAA Weather Radio...weather.gov or orther media outlets for further
statements or possible warnings on these storms.
LAT...LON 3477 8515 3482 8513 3481 8511 3482 8511
3482 8506 3462 8505 3461 8506 3445 8550
3471 8555
TIME...MOT...LOC 1501Z 249DEG 48KT 3455 8548
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 11:05 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, 1:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Cobb, Douglas, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.