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Heat Advisory 4, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 29, 202679 counties in Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this heat advisory at Jun 29, 2026, 12:32 PM EDT for 79 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Jun 30, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 29, 2026, 12:32 PM EDT (16:32 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 30, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT
Expired: Jun 30, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

All 79 counties

Baldwin County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Butts County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dade County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Murray County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Schley County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Troup County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walker County, GA, Walton County, GA, Washington County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:36 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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 46 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: 896 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -118 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 956 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this heat advisory 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 heat advisory went out at Jun 29, 6:37 AM EDT, 5 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 6:37 AM EDT, 5 hours 55 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
Jun 29, 3:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkes	48 min
Jun 29, 4:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Lincoln	34 min
Jun 29, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Warren, Wilkes	32 min
Jun 29, 4:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Madison	25 min
Jun 29, 5:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taliaferro	46 min
Jun 29, 5:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Taliaferro, Wilkes	42 min
Jun 29, 5:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Washington	38 min
Jun 29, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jefferson	33 min
Jun 29, 5:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jefferson	35 min
Jun 29, 6:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Washington	52 min
Jun 29, 6:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Hancock	30 min
Jun 29, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Jefferson, Johnson, Washington	47 min
Jun 29, 6:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Hancock, Washington, Wilkinson	42 min
Jun 29, 6:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Putnam	23 min
Jun 29, 6:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel, Treutlen	33 min
Jun 29, 7:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Putnam	34 min
Jun 29, 7:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin, Wilkinson	32 min
Jun 29, 7:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Putnam	30 min
Jun 29, 7:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Toombs	29 min
Jun 29, 7:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Laurens, Montgomery, Treutlen	40 min
Jun 29, 7:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Twiggs, Wilkinson	48 min
Jun 29, 7:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Toombs	47 min
Jun 29, 7:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Laurens, Twiggs, Wilkinson	31 min
Jun 29, 7:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Putnam	29 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.