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WWUS52 KFFC 090145
SVSFFC

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
945 PM EDT Wed May 8 2024

GAC047-083-295-313-090230-
/O.CON.KFFC.SV.W.0072.000000T0000Z-240509T0230Z/
Catoosa GA-Whitfield GA-Walker GA-Dade GA-
945 PM EDT Wed May 8 2024

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1030 PM EDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN CATOOSA...WEST CENTRAL WHITFIELD...WALKER AND
SOUTHWESTERN DADE COUNTIES...

At 945 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Rising Fawn, or
8 miles south of Trenton, moving east at 30 mph.

HAZARD...Golf ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail
         damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect wind
         damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

Locations impacted include...
Lafayette, Ringgold, Chickamauga, La Fayette, Naomi, Rising Fawn,
Noble, Wood Station, Blue Spring, Linwood, Beaumont, Villanow,
Cloudland Canyon State Park, Cooper Heights, and Rock Spring.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A Tornado Watch remains in effect until midnight EDT for northwestern
Georgia.

Remain alert for a possible tornado! Tornadoes can develop quickly
from severe thunderstorms. If you spot a tornado go at once into the
basement or small central room in a sturdy structure.

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

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LAT...LON 3492 8510 3465 8507 3464 8554 3484 8558
TIME...MOT...LOC 0145Z 263DEG 27KT 3475 8557

TORNADO...POSSIBLE
THUNDERSTORM DAMAGE THREAT...CONSIDERABLE
HAIL THREAT...OBSERVED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.75 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH

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