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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 4, 2021Banks County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at May 4, 2021, 2:25 PM EDT for Banks County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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, 2:25 PM EDT (18:25 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 2021, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Wind: 50

County Banks County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:25 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 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

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The text

As transmitted.

273 
WWUS82 KFFC 041825
SPSFFC

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
225 PM EDT Tue May 4 2021
 
GAZ024-025-027-041900-
Madison GA-Banks GA-Jackson GA-
225 PM EDT Tue May 4 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN MADISON...SOUTHEASTERN
BANKS AND NORTHEASTERN JACKSON COUNTIES UNTIL 300 PM EDT...

At 225 PM EDT...a strong thunderstorm was near Commerce...moving east
at 35 mph.

  HAZARD...40 to 50 mph wind 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
Commerce, Homer, Danielsville, Maysville, Ila, Pocataligo and Banks
Crossing.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

People outdoors should seek shelter immediately. Motorists should
slow down and be prepared for possible loss of control due to
hydroplaning.

LAT...LON 3432 8339 3427 8334 3424 8334 3426 8330
      3425 8327 3425 8320 3424 8317 3427 8311
      3426 8312 3423 8308 3417 8310 3416 8307
      3412 8305 3411 8303 3417 8354 3435 8354
      3436 8339
TIME...MOT...LOC 1825Z 271DEG 33KT 3423 8340 

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, 11:01 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Walker	29 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, 2:26 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.