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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 21, 2025Bleckley County, Houston County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at May 21, 2025, 7:52 AM EDT for Bleckley County, Houston County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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 21, 2025, 7:52 AM EDT (11:52 UTC)
Expired: May 21, 2025, 8:15 AM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 40

Counties Bleckley County, GA, Houston County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:52 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 735 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1407 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 5.0

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The text

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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 May 21, 7:19 AM EDT, 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 21, 7:19 AM EDT, 33 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 21, 5:06 AM EDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 21, 7:09 AM EDT, 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 21, 7:38 AM EDT, 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 21, 7:39 AM EDT, 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 21, 7:43 AM EDT, 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 21, 7:50 AM EDT, 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 21, 7:52 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
May 20, 8:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Dade, Walker	43 min
May 20, 9:13 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Dade, Walker	36 min
May 20, 9:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Dade, Walker, Whitfield	45 min
May 20, 9:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Murray, Walker, Whitfield	48 min
May 20, 10:06 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Dade, Walker	39 min
May 20, 10:31 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Gilmer, Murray, Whitfield	20 min
May 20, 10:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon, Walker, Whitfield	26 min
May 20, 10:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon, Walker, Whitfield	42 min
May 20, 10:40 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Walker	50 min
May 20, 10:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gilmer, Murray	24 min
May 20, 10:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fannin	48 min
May 20, 11:04 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Floyd	41 min
May 20, 11:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon, Murray	47 min
May 20, 11:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon	45 min
May 20, 11:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Gordon	36 min
May 20, 11:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Floyd, Gordon, Paulding and 2 more	41 min
May 20, 11:54 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee, Gordon, Pickens	21 min
May 21, 12:12 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Towns	33 min
May 21, 12:19 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Cobb, Dawson, DeKalb, Forsyth, Fulton and 4 more	41 min
May 21, 12:25 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Floyd	2 hr
May 21, 12:34 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Haralson	41 min
May 21, 12:50 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks, Barrow, Cobb, DeKalb, Forsyth, Fulton and 3 more	19 min
May 21, 1:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Douglas, Haralson, Paulding	26 min
May 21, 1:05 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fulton	25 min
May 21, 1:08 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Barrow, DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett, Jackson	37 min
May 21, 1:10 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Haralson	27 min
May 21, 1:19 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Barrow, Clayton, DeKalb, Douglas, Gwinnett, Oconee and 2 more	26 min
May 21, 1:26 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Douglas, Fulton	34 min
May 21, 1:36 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll	39 min
May 21, 1:48 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton, Gwinnett, Paulding	4 hr
May 21, 2:07 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Coweta	23 min
May 21, 2:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Oconee, Oglethorpe	29 min
May 21, 2:36 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fayette	24 min
May 21, 2:49 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fayette	26 min
May 21, 2:58 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Fayette, Fulton, Henry	32 min
May 21, 3:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fayette, Henry, Spalding	30 min
May 21, 3:26 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Clayton, Henry, Newton	34 min
May 21, 3:36 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts, Spalding	24 min
May 21, 3:42 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Henry, Jasper, Jones, Monroe, Spalding	33 min
May 21, 3:45 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Butts, Henry, Jasper, Monroe, Spalding	30 min
May 21, 3:57 AM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	FFC	Butts, Jasper	18 min
May 21, 4:09 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Butts, Jasper	15 min
May 21, 4:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Glascock, Hancock, Taliaferro, Warren	40 min
May 21, 4:43 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jefferson	32 min
May 21, 7:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Sumter	36 min
May 21, 7:38 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Webster	37 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.