B737 flight crew reported continuing to land with wind shear warning to avoid weather and airborne c...

Attributes
ACN	1676332
Time
Date	201908
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	ATL.Airport
State Reference	GA
Environment
Flight Conditions	Mixed
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	B737-700
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Final Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 463
Person 2
Function	Pilot Not Flying First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Multiengine
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 488
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence

Narrative:

On approach into atl runway 10; on about a three-mile final; we received a wind shear caution. I hesitated on the go-around because our go-around would have taken us directly into a thunderstorm; traffic on the northern runways barred a turn across the airport; we were not experiencing any indications of wind shear and the aircraft in 2.5 miles in front of us only experienced minor fluctuations in airspeed. We both knew we were supposed to initiate a normal go-around; but I thought the placement of the weather looked like bigger threat and I did not want to fly into it. We continued the approach; turned off the automation and prepared to initiate a wind shear recovery maneuver. We encountered only minor airspeed variations. By procedure we should have initiated a go around; I thought the weather's placement was a bigger threat; so I made the decision to continue.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: B737 flight crew reported continuing to land with wind shear warning to avoid weather and airborne conflict on go around.

Narrative: On approach into ATL Runway 10; on about a three-mile final; we received a wind shear caution. I hesitated on the go-around because our go-around would have taken us directly into a thunderstorm; traffic on the northern runways barred a turn across the airport; we were not experiencing any indications of wind shear and the aircraft in 2.5 miles in front of us only experienced minor fluctuations in airspeed. We both knew we were supposed to initiate a normal go-around; but I thought the placement of the weather looked like bigger threat and I did not want to fly into it. We continued the approach; turned off the automation and prepared to initiate a wind shear recovery maneuver. We encountered only minor airspeed variations. By procedure we should have initiated a go around; I thought the weather's placement was a bigger threat; so I made the decision to continue.

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.