Narrative:

I was working the R23 position with moderate to severe precipitation throughout the sector. Most of my traffic was deviating for weather. I also had several aircraft from an adjacent sector deviating into my sector. Due to the structure of the sector; I had several aircraft that came into my sector in conflict with other aircraft at the same altitude. The volume of traffic and complexity was well above normal due to thunderstorms in and around my airspace. I had a d-side in training initially; but the instructor 'took over' due to the complexity.due to the numerous requests for deviations; I started to get 'behind' and made a request for a tracker. I was not able to give any type of briefing to the tracker. I had at least 3 situations that required expeditious descents to resolve conflicts. I also had one aircraft in my sector that was not on my frequency that was in conflict with another aircraft at the same altitude.one situation was brought to my attention by the R27 controller with one of his aircraft that had deviated into my sector requiring another altitude change to avoid an event. I was never aware that the sector was about to have a major increase in volume until the aircraft were on my boundary in hand off status.in my opinion; this situation placed the NAS in a very unsafe situation.I would recommend some type of increased spacing for traffic into my sector when the facility traffic monitor and weather indicated this situation was about to occur.I also believe the clt arrivals should have been moved farther to the east; out of my sector to use an alternate arrival. This would have reduced the volume and complexity greatly.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: ZTL Controllers reported an unsafe scenario due to weather in the sectors; VFR aircraft not flying in VFR weather and an overabundance of traffic deviating for weather.

Narrative: I was working the R23 position with moderate to severe precipitation throughout the sector. Most of my traffic was deviating for weather. I also had several aircraft from an adjacent sector deviating into my sector. Due to the structure of the sector; I had several aircraft that came into my sector in conflict with other aircraft at the same altitude. The volume of traffic and complexity was well above normal due to thunderstorms in and around my airspace. I had a D-side in training initially; but the instructor 'took over' due to the complexity.Due to the numerous requests for deviations; I started to get 'behind' and made a request for a Tracker. I was not able to give any type of briefing to the Tracker. I had at least 3 situations that required expeditious descents to resolve conflicts. I also had one aircraft in my sector that was not on my frequency that was in conflict with another aircraft at the same altitude.One situation was brought to my attention by the R27 controller with one of his aircraft that had deviated into my sector requiring another altitude change to avoid an event. I was never aware that the sector was about to have a major increase in volume until the aircraft were on my boundary in hand off status.In my opinion; this situation placed the NAS in a very unsafe situation.I would recommend some type of increased spacing for traffic into my sector when the facility traffic monitor and weather indicated this situation was about to occur.I also believe the CLT arrivals should have been moved farther to the east; out of my sector to use an alternate arrival. This would have reduced the volume and complexity greatly.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.