Military
Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Situational Awareness
ATC Issue All Types; Deviation - Track / Heading All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence
Air Traffic Control Issued New Clearance
Weather; Human Factors; Procedure
Weather that was depicting heavy to extreme precipitation impacted the Tiroe sector ZTL. The area of convective activity covered a 90 mile radius in the sector. There was no 'clean air' we had aircraft inbound to ATL deviate to avoid the heavy thunderstorms. They deviated into the south departure sector and also the west departure sector. It was not possible for them to join the arrival from the south west. We coordinated headings with ATL approach A80.Our Traffic Management Unit (TMU) was informed by our Controller in Charge (CIC) that aircraft were requesting different arrival fixes. The other 3 arrival fixes and sectors in ZTL airspace had no weather at all. 2 Air carriers demanded a new arrival for safety. Our TMU responded by saying the air carriers could deviate. So we vectored aircraft to deviate north and rejoin the arrival when able. When the aircraft reached the Transfer Control Point (TCP) however the controllers at A80 said they had no knowledge of this plan and did not agree to it. Lack of communication between our TMU and A80 put the flying public safety at risk. Our TMU said that they put out a re-route to put the arrivals on other arrivals. However the aircraft were still purposely being routed into known convective activity on the arrival into ATL. No proactive measures were taken by our TMU to off-load arrivals to safe arrivals with no convective activity. The flying public was put at risk by this lack of action and planning. In the future when an arrival sector is covered in convective activity the aircraft should be re-routed to other arrivals. This was another example of how our management and TMU do NOT work to help the controllers of ZTL.
Atlanta Center Controller reported aircraft being cleared into known weather.