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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 2, 2011Henry County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jun 2, 2011, 10:53 PM EDT for Henry County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 2011, 10:53 PM EDT (02:53 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2011, 11:30 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Henry County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 31 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: 3108 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1749 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 2, 8:17 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 8:17 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 10:00 PM EDT, 53 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 2, 5:31 PM EDT, 5 hours 22 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
531 PM EDT THU JUN 2 2011

GAZ090-091-022200-
531 PM EDT THU JUN 2 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HEAVY RAIN IN MARION AND
CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTIES UNTIL 600 PM EDT...

AT 528 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER CHRISTOPHER...MOVING WEST AT 15 MPH.

&&

LAT...LON 3223 8489 3238 8493 3242 8478 3251 8457
      3238 8447 3225 8468
TIME...MOT...LOC 2131Z 072DEG 12KT 3236 8471

Special weather statement, Jun 2, 10:53 PM EDT, 0 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
Jun 2, 11:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Henry	17 min
Jun 2, 11:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Spalding	37 min
Jun 3, 12:29 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Pike	31 min
Jun 3, 12:51 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel	39 min
Jun 3, 5:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jefferson	46 min
Jun 3, 5:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Banks	29 min
Jun 3, 5:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jefferson	42 min
Jun 3, 5:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks	39 min
Jun 3, 6:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Toombs	41 min
Jun 3, 6:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jackson	35 min
Jun 3, 6:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jefferson	45 min
Jun 3, 6:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Toombs	34 min
Jun 3, 6:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clarke, Jackson	35 min
Jun 3, 7:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Montgomery	48 min

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.