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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 11, 2011Pike County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jun 11, 2011, 3:21 PM EDT for Pike County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 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 11, 2011, 3:21 PM EDT (19:21 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 2011, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA

County Pike County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 24 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2011-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 636 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2011-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -25 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
636 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-138 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1406 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-11 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.

737 
WWUS82 KFFC 111921
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
321 PM EDT SAT JUN 11 2011

GAZ067-068-111945-
321 PM EDT SAT JUN 11 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR DIME SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS 
IN WESTERN PIKE AND EASTERN MERIWETHER COUNTIES UNTIL 345 PM EDT...

AT 319 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER HOLLONVILLE...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.

THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DIME SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS
WESTERN PIKE AND EASTERN MERIWETHER COUNTIES THROUGH 345 PM EDT. 
SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE 
HOLLONVILLE...HILLTOP...CONCORD...WOOSTER...IMLAC...ALVATON AND GAY. 
BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 3322 8466 3320 8450 3319 8449 3320 8447
      3318 8436 3302 8440 3303 8468
TIME...MOT...LOC 1921Z 035DEG 3KT 3317 8452

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 10:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCStewart, Webster24 min
Jun 10, 10:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMeriwether, Troup31 min
Jun 11, 12:16 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHarris44 min
Jun 11, 2:04 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCForsyth, Hall26 min
Jun 11, 3:02 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHall43 min
Jun 11, 1:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCClayton, Fayette36 min
Jun 11, 2:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFulton19 min
Jun 11, 2:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDade39 min
Jun 11, 2:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCarroll, Douglas23 min
Jun 11, 2:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCFayette34 min
Jun 11, 2:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCChattooga32 min
Jun 11, 2:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCFannin, Gilmer37 min
Jun 11, 2:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCFayette34 min
Jun 11, 3:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll, Heard38 min
Jun 11, 3:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCatoosa, Whitfield28 min
Jun 11, 3:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHeard25 min
Jun 11, 3:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHeard52 min
Jun 11, 3:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCGordon51 min
Jun 11, 4:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCTroup38 min
Jun 11, 5:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBartow33 min
Jun 11, 5:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCWhite25 min
Jun 11, 6:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCJackson23 min
Jun 11, 7:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCClarke, Madison41 min
Jun 11, 7:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCGreene24 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.