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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jun 8, 2021, 4:02 PM EDT for Coweta County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 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
- Jun 8, 2021, 4:02 PM EDT (20:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2021, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Hail
- 0.25 in
- Wind
- 50
County Coweta County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 13 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
- 422 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 551 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
875
WWUS82 KFFC 082002
SPSFFC
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
402 PM EDT Tue Jun 8 2021
GAZ053-054-067-082030-
Fayette GA-Coweta GA-Meriwether GA-
402 PM EDT Tue Jun 8 2021
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN FAYETTE...
SOUTHEASTERN COWETA AND NORTHERN MERIWETHER COUNTIES UNTIL 430 PM
EDT...
At 402 PM EDT...a strong thunderstorm was near Haralson, or 12 miles
southeast of Newnan...moving north at 15 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
Peachtree City, Senoia, Sharpsburg, Turin and Haralson.
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 3319 8460 3321 8471 3339 8467 3341 8457
3335 8450
TIME...MOT...LOC 2002Z 201DEG 14KT 3326 8463
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 2:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dooly, Pulaski | 29 min |
| Jun 8, 2:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pulaski | 33 min |
| Jun 8, 3:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Stewart | 29 min |
| Jun 8, 3:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Houston | 10 min |
| Jun 8, 3:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Houston | 30 min |
| Jun 8, 3:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Macon | 24 min |
| Jun 8, 3:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp, Wilcox | 33 min |
| Jun 8, 4:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jeff Davis | 33 min |
| Jun 8, 4:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Peach | 29 min |
| Jun 8, 4:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb | 28 min |
| Jun 8, 4:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jefferson | 36 min |
| Jun 8, 4:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge | 23 min |
| Jun 8, 5:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 30 min |
| Jun 8, 5:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 27 min |
| Jun 8, 5:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 32 min |
| Jun 8, 5:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Sumter | 38 min |
| Jun 8, 5:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 27 min |
| Jun 8, 5:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Walton | 37 min |
| Jun 8, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Macon, Schley, Sumter | 38 min |
| Jun 8, 6:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 30 min |
| Jun 8, 6:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Treutlen | 27 min |
| Jun 8, 6:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 30 min |
| Jun 8, 7:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry | 36 min |
| Jun 8, 7:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hall | 36 min |
| Jun 8, 7:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dawson | 34 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.