533 FXUS62 KFFC 110528 AFDFFC Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Peachtree City GA 128 AM EDT Thu Oct 11 2018 .PREV DISCUSSION... /Issued 719 PM EDT Wed Oct 10 2018/ UPDATE... Updated for the 00Z Aviation Discussion. PREV DISCUSSION... /Issued 332 PM EDT Wed Oct 10 2018/ SHORT TERM /Today through Friday/... .Remnants of Michael To Track Across East and Central Georgia... Hurricane Michael made landfall near Mexico Beach Florida as a major hurricane at category 4 earlier this afternoon. It is now making a rapid acceleration to the NE with outer rain bands already affecting Central Georgia. The most immediate concern is the tornado threat as CAPE values have increased to 2000 J/KG and helicities will remain quite high through the entirety of this tropical event. Tornado watch has been issued for all of central Georgia and extending into the southern Atlanta metro. Winds will be an increasing concern from late evening into the overnight period as the initial tight wind circulation expands allowing for a larger envelope of damaging winds. With a stronger landfall, weakening will now only take this down to a Category 1 hurricane as it approaches the forecast area. As it tracks across Central Georgia, hurricane force winds may transition to mainly gusts but effects will remain the same with hundreds if not thousands of trees and powerlines downed. Some could be without power for several days or up to a week depending on how much intensity is maintained with Michael. Have upgraded with the last package the tropical storm warning to a hurricane warning for Telfair and Wheeler counties. Remainder of warnings look on track. Did not want to confuse remainder of the area with Wind Advisory for now but did include in PNS that areas including the Atlanta metro would see some damaging winds to down trees and powerlines but no Tropical Storm force anticipated. QPF with latest run has increased slightly and will now carry 4 to 6 inches with locally higher amounts but current flood watch is unaffected. In other news, Fall makes an appearance Thursday night into Friday with lows for portions of the metro now expected in the upper 40s. Something to look forward to for those that enjoy such weather. Deese LONG TERM /Friday Night through Tuesday/... Little changes were made to the long term with the focus obviously on Hurricane Michael. Did make minor tweaks to the extended temperatures and pops to account for the latest thinking, including a slight decrease in low temperatures next week. Otherwise, the previous forecast discussion remains applicable and follows below. 31 A much quieter long term is expected with most precip ended by Thursday night with just small chances for light showers briefly over the far e central cwa. Dry and much cooler weather is then expected for Friday and Saturday with temperatures within about 5 degrees of normal. Starting Sunday and beyond, a WSW flow aloft could have limited moisture and a short wave or two in conjunction with a weak cold front forecast to move across the area on Monday. This will amount to slight chance to chance pops for light showers through this timeframe. Instability will be very limited as well. Temperatures will mostly warm to above normal but not as much as previous. BDL && .AVIATION... 06Z Update... Michael has picked up speed and will continue to rapidly pull off to the east. The widespread precip will also begin to diminish rapidly towards 12z. The diminishing precip trend in the TAF may be on the slow side, but can be handled better in later AMDs if needed. Winds are very close to shifting to the west side, and think that should occur around 7Z. Frequent gusts to around 30kt will continue overnight, with frequent gusts to around 25 kt possible during the day on Thursday. VFR conditions expected after 18z. //ATL Confidence...06Z Update... Med confidence all elements. NListemaa && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Athens 80 51 76 52 / 100 5 0 0 Atlanta 78 51 72 53 / 60 0 0 0 Blairsville 72 44 69 46 / 90 0 0 5 Cartersville 77 48 71 49 / 60 0 0 5 Columbus 82 53 77 54 / 20 0 0 0 Gainesville 78 51 74 53 / 100 0 0 0 Macon 83 52 77 52 / 40 0 0 0 Rome 77 48 71 49 / 50 0 0 5 Peachtree City 79 49 74 51 / 50 0 0 0 Vidalia 85 57 79 55 / 40 5 0 0 && .FFC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... Tornado Watch until 2 AM EDT early this morning for the following zones: Baldwin...Barrow...Bibb...Bleckley...Butts... Clarke...Crawford...Crisp...Dodge...Dooly...Emanuel...Glascock... Greene...Hancock...Henry...Houston...Jasper...Jefferson... Johnson...Jones...Lamar...Laurens...Macon...Monroe... Montgomery...Morgan...Newton...Oconee...Oglethorpe...Peach... Pike...Pulaski...Putnam...Rockdale...Schley...Spalding... Sumter...Taliaferro...Taylor...Telfair...Toombs...Treutlen... Twiggs...Upson...Walton...Warren...Washington...Wheeler... Wilcox...Wilkes...Wilkinson. Flash Flood Watch through this afternoon for the following zones: Baldwin...Bibb...Bleckley...Butts...Chattahoochee... Clarke...Crawford...Crisp...Dodge...Dooly...Emanuel...Glascock... Greene...Hancock...Houston...Jasper...Jefferson...Johnson... Jones...Lamar...Laurens...Macon...Madison...Marion...Monroe... Montgomery...Morgan...Muscogee...Newton...Oconee...Oglethorpe... Peach...Pulaski...Putnam...Schley...Stewart...Sumter...Talbot... Taliaferro...Taylor...Telfair...Toombs...Treutlen...Twiggs... Upson...Walton...Warren...Washington...Webster...Wheeler... Wilcox...Wilkes...Wilkinson. Tropical Storm Warning for the following zones: Baldwin...Bibb... Bleckley...Chattahoochee...Crawford...Crisp...Dodge...Dooly... Emanuel...Glascock...Greene...Hancock...Houston...Jasper... Jefferson...Johnson...Jones...Lamar...Laurens...Macon...Marion... Monroe...Montgomery...Morgan...Muscogee...Oglethorpe...Peach... Pulaski...Putnam...Schley...Stewart...Sumter...Talbot... Taliaferro...Taylor...Telfair...Toombs...Treutlen...Twiggs... Upson...Warren...Washington...Webster...Wheeler...Wilcox... Wilkes...Wilkinson. && $$ SHORT TERM...17 LONG TERM....King AVIATION...NListemaa