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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 21, 2011Hancock County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jun 21, 2011, 8:21 PM EDT for Hancock County, Georgia. It was in force for 39 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 21, 2011, 8:21 PM EDT (00:21 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 2011, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA

County Hancock County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 135 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 00:00Z on 2011-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 753 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 00:00Z on 2011-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
753 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2020 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 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.

854 
WWUS82 KFFC 220021
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
821 PM EDT TUE JUN 21 2011

GAZ060-061-220100-
821 PM EDT TUE JUN 21 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR 50 MPH WINDS IN PUTNAM AND
HANCOCK COUNTIES UNTIL 900 PM EDT...

AT 818 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER SHOULDERBONE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 50 MPH ARE LIKELY AS THIS STORM MOVES ACROSS PUTNAM AND
HANCOCK COUNTIES THROUGH 900 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF
THE STORM INCLUDE ROCKVILLE...OCONEE SPRINGS PARK...SHOULDERBONE...
SPRINGFIELD AND POWELTON.

&&

LAT...LON 3340 8282 3322 8315 3336 8328 3340 8322
      3338 8322 3339 8319 3336 8316 3347 8301
      3345 8299 3345 8287 3343 8282
TIME...MOT...LOC 0021Z 231DEG 20KT 3335 8312

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 8:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCTaliaferro38 min
Jun 21, 8:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBleckley, Pulaski43 min
Jun 21, 8:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCLaurens49 min
Jun 21, 9:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCWilkinson40 min
Jun 21, 9:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCWashington41 min
Jun 21, 10:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCJefferson37 min
Jun 21, 11:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHouston51 min
Jun 22, 2:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCoweta, Heard, Meriwether, Troup41 min
Jun 22, 2:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCarroll, Douglas, Haralson, Paulding34 min
Jun 22, 3:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCarroll, Chattahoochee, Coweta, Douglas, Fayette, Harris and 5 more33 min
Jun 22, 3:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCClayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton and 4 more39 min
Jun 22, 4:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClayton, DeKalb, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry and 4 more62 min
Jun 22, 4:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCherokee, Dawson45 min
Jun 22, 4:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCFannin34 min
Jun 22, 4:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCLamar, Monroe, Upson46 min
Jun 22, 4:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBanks, Barrow, Clarke, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson and 3 more54 min
Jun 22, 5:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCLumpkin, Union49 min
Jun 22, 5:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBaldwin, Bibb, Houston, Jasper, Jones, Peach and 2 more38 min
Jun 22, 5:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBanks, Clarke, Hall, Jackson, Madison, Oconee and 1 more38 min
Jun 22, 6:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDade27 min
Jun 22, 6:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMadison, Oglethorpe40 min
Jun 22, 6:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCarroll, Haralson, Heard39 min
Jun 22, 6:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll, Haralson, Heard47 min
Jun 22, 7:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHaralson, Polk64 min
Jun 22, 7:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFloyd, Haralson, Polk43 min
Jun 22, 7:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCobb, Douglas42 min
Jun 22, 7:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBartow, Gordon, Pickens49 min

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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.