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Heat Advisory 1, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 6, 200743 counties in Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this heat advisory at Aug 6, 2007, 3:56 AM EDT for 43 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Aug 6, 2007, 1:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 6, 2007, 3:56 AM EDT (07:56 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 6, 2007, 1:00 PM EDT
Expired: Aug 6, 2007, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

All 43 counties

Baldwin County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Harris County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Schley County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 124 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1428 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1680 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this heat advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Atlanta, GA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this heat advisory went out at Aug 6, 2:08 AM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 2:08 AM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 5, 10:31 PM EDT, 5 hours 25 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 5, 8:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington	34 min
Aug 6, 3:59 PM EDT	Heat Advisory	FFC	Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Chattahoochee, Clarke and 57 more	28 hr
Aug 6, 6:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lamar	33 min

Nearby

Heat Advisories in Georgia, 2007 Every heat advisory in 2007

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.