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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 9, 2021Fayette County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 9, 2021, 9:15 PM EDT for Fayette County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 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, 9:15 PM EDT (01:15 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2021, 10:00 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 40

County Fayette County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 28 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: 606 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1192 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 161 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.3

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The text

As transmitted.

529 
WWUS82 KFFC 100115
SPSFFC

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
915 PM EDT Fri Jul 9 2021
 
GAZ043-044-053>055-100200-
Fayette GA-Douglas GA-Clayton GA-Coweta GA-South Fulton GA-
915 PM EDT Fri Jul 9 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR FAYETTE...SOUTHERN DOUGLAS...
NORTHWESTERN CLAYTON...NORTHEASTERN COWETA AND SOUTH FULTON COUNTIES
UNTIL 1000 PM EDT...

At 915 PM EDT...a strong thunderstorm was over Palmetto, moving east 
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
Newnan, Fayetteville, Peachtree City, East Point, Union City,
Riverdale, College Park, Fairburn, Tyrone, Palmetto, Senoia,
Sharpsburg, Turin, Chattahoochee Hills, Hartsfield-Jackson Airport,
Starrs Mill, Arnco-Sargent, Dunaway Gardens, Cannongate and Sandy
Creek.

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 3351 8484 3351 8483 3352 8482 3354 8483
      3357 8482 3357 8481 3358 8481 3364 8479
      3364 8442 3345 8442 3328 8453 3343 8487
TIME...MOT...LOC 0115Z 284DEG 17KT 3350 8470 

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

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 8:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Pulaski	43 min
Jul 9, 10:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Putnam	34 min
Jul 9, 11:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin	30 min
Jul 9, 11:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jasper	22 min
Jul 10, 12:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Greene	31 min
Jul 10, 1:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Oconee	37 min
Jul 10, 1:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	DeKalb, Rockdale	31 min
Jul 10, 2:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Washington	35 min
Jul 10, 2:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Treutlen	28 min
Jul 10, 3:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkinson	23 min
Jul 10, 3:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Putnam	34 min
Jul 10, 3:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Oglethorpe	28 min
Jul 10, 3:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkinson	24 min
Jul 10, 4:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Madison	34 min
Jul 10, 4:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Montgomery, Toombs	27 min
Jul 10, 4:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fulton	23 min
Jul 10, 5:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Laurens	35 min
Jul 10, 7:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cherokee	25 min

Nearby

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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.