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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 21, 2023Dade County, Walker County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 21, 2023, 2:58 AM EDT for Dade County, Walker County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

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The facts

Issued: Jul 21, 2023, 2:58 AM EDT (06:58 UTC)
Expired: Jul 21, 2023, 3:30 AM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

Counties Dade County, GA, Walker County, GA

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Atlanta, GA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jul 21, 1:55 AM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 1:55 AM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 20, 11:01 PM EDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 20, 10:54 PM EDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 20, 10:55 PM EDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 20, 10:56 PM EDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 20, 11:59 PM EDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 21, 12:36 AM EDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 21, 2:58 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 20, 8:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Johnson, Twiggs, Washington, Wilkinson	37 min
Jul 20, 8:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Glascock, Jefferson	51 min
Jul 20, 8:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens, Treutlen	49 min
Jul 20, 9:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Haralson	32 min
Jul 20, 9:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Montgomery, Toombs	34 min
Jul 21, 3:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattooga	33 min
Jul 21, 3:28 AM EDT	Heat Advisory	FFC	Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Chattahoochee, Crawford, Crisp and 36 more	17 hr
Jul 21, 5:00 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Forsyth	30 min
Jul 21, 6:08 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee	37 min
Jul 21, 3:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dade, Walker	30 min
Jul 21, 3:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gordon	30 min
Jul 21, 4:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dade, Walker	28 min
Jul 21, 4:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gordon	28 min
Jul 21, 4:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gordon	37 min
Jul 21, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattooga	29 min
Jul 21, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dade, Murray, Walker, Whitfield	33 min
Jul 21, 4:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fulton	25 min
Jul 21, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gordon	32 min
Jul 21, 5:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gilmer	33 min
Jul 21, 5:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton	29 min
Jul 21, 5:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb	24 min
Jul 21, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Murray	35 min
Jul 21, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gordon	14 min
Jul 21, 5:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Rockdale	31 min
Jul 21, 5:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Polk	30 min
Jul 21, 5:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett, Newton, Rockdale, Walton	35 min
Jul 21, 5:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Polk	31 min
Jul 21, 6:02 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton, Gwinnett and 2 more	5 hr
Jul 21, 6:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton	24 min
Jul 21, 6:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton	26 min
Jul 21, 6:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Morgan	24 min
Jul 21, 6:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Paulding	34 min
Jul 21, 6:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Polk	31 min
Jul 21, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Morgan, Newton, Walton	31 min
Jul 21, 6:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris	24 min
Jul 21, 6:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Banks	30 min
Jul 21, 6:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton, Rockdale	29 min
Jul 21, 6:53 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	FFC	Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton	4 hr
Jul 21, 6:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Morgan, Putnam, Taliaferro	35 min
Jul 21, 6:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cobb	32 min
Jul 21, 7:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Carroll, Haralson	41 min
Jul 21, 7:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris	25 min
Jul 21, 7:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Paulding	37 min
Jul 21, 7:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	DeKalb	31 min
Jul 21, 7:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Muscogee, Talbot	39 min
Jul 21, 7:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taliaferro, Warren	34 min
Jul 21, 7:27 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton	2 hr
Jul 21, 7:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Marion	27 min
Jul 21, 7:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattooga, Floyd, Polk	27 min
Jul 21, 7:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow	31 min
Jul 21, 7:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Warren	20 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.