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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 9, 2021Gordon County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 9, 2021, 1:01 PM EDT for Gordon 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
Jul 9, 2021, 1:01 PM EDT (17:01 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 2021, 1:30 PM EDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Hail
0.25 in
Wind
40

County Gordon County, GA

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:04 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 141 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2021-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 785 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2021-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
785 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
638 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

118 
WWUS82 KFFC 091701
SPSFFC

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
101 PM EDT Fri Jul 9 2021
 
GAZ002-011-012-019-020-091730-
Chattooga GA-Walker GA-Gordon GA-Bartow GA-Floyd GA-
101 PM EDT Fri Jul 9 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN CHATTOOGA...
SOUTHEASTERN WALKER...WESTERN GORDON...NORTHWESTERN BARTOW AND
NORTHEASTERN FLOYD COUNTIES UNTIL 130 PM EDT...

At 100 PM EDT...a strong thunderstorm was over Subligna, or 11 miles
west of Calhoun...moving southeast at 20 mph.

  HAZARD...Up to 40 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
Calhoun, Adairsville, Resaca, Plainville, Pinson, Oostanaula,
Subligna, Sugar Valley, Everett Springs and Lake Marvin.

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 3466 8515 3463 8505 3461 8505 3462 8501
      3457 8486 3443 8487 3433 8500 3447 8529
TIME...MOT...LOC 1700Z 294DEG 19KT 3454 8515 

HAIL...0.25IN
WIND...40MPH

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 9:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMorgan, Newton, Rockdale, Walton48 min
Jul 8, 9:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMorgan, Newton, Oconee, Rockdale49 min
Jul 9, 11:23 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCWhitfield22 min
Jul 9, 11:47 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMurray43 min
Jul 9, 12:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCFannin, Gilmer31 min
Jul 9, 12:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCChattooga36 min
Jul 9, 1:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDodge36 min
Jul 9, 1:24 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHall36 min
Jul 9, 1:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCChattooga33 min
Jul 9, 1:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCGordon38 min
Jul 9, 1:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCatoosa, Chattooga, Floyd, Walker, Whitfield31 min
Jul 9, 2:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBartow, Cherokee, Gordon34 min
Jul 9, 2:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCobb, DeKalb, Fulton27 min
Jul 9, 2:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCPolk8 min
Jul 9, 2:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMorgan, Oconee47 min
Jul 9, 2:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Forsyth, Paulding, Pickens and 1 more27 min
Jul 9, 2:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCClarke, Oglethorpe, Wilkes24 min
Jul 9, 2:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClayton, DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry, Newton and 2 more35 min
Jul 9, 2:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBarrow, Gwinnett, Walton28 min
Jul 9, 3:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCobb, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett27 min
Jul 9, 3:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCGreene, Hancock, Jasper, Putnam, Taliaferro, Warren and 1 more24 min
Jul 9, 3:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHenry, Newton, Rockdale19 min
Jul 9, 3:24 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBarrow, Henry, Morgan, Newton, Oconee, Rockdale and 1 more36 min
Jul 9, 3:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCClayton, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton28 min
Jul 9, 3:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHancock, Putnam, Warren32 min
Jul 9, 4:04 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCButts, Clayton, Fayette, Henry, Jasper, Spalding41 min
Jul 9, 4:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBaldwin, Glascock, Hancock, Jefferson, Putnam45 min
Jul 9, 4:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBaldwin, Bibb, Butts, Emanuel, Glascock, Hancock and 12 more50 min
Jul 9, 5:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBleckley, Laurens, Twiggs, Wilkinson40 min
Jul 9, 5:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCEmanuel, Johnson, Treutlen40 min
Jul 9, 5:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBibb, Crawford11 min
Jul 9, 5:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBibb, Bleckley, Crawford, Laurens, Peach, Twiggs and 1 more46 min
Jul 9, 5:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCEmanuel, Toombs, Treutlen34 min
Jul 9, 6:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBleckley, Crawford, Dodge, Houston, Laurens, Montgomery and 6 more62 min
Jul 9, 7:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCTelfair, Wilcox65 min
Jul 9, 7:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMuscogee46 min
Jul 9, 7:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDodge, Pulaski, Wheeler34 min
Jul 9, 7:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCChattahoochee26 min
Jul 9, 7:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCChattahoochee, Macon, Marion, Schley46 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.