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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 5, 2011, 3:25 PM EDT for Lumpkin County, White County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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
- Jul 5, 2011, 3:25 PM EDT (19:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2011, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Lumpkin County, GA, White County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 156 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -144 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 939 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS82 KFFC 051925
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
325 PM EDT TUE JUL 5 2011
GAZ015-016-052000-
325 PM EDT TUE JUL 5 2011
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR FREQUENT LIGHTNING IN WHITE AND
LUMPKIN COUNTIES UNTIL 400 PM EDT...
AT 320 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER PORTER SPRINGS...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
LIGHTNING DETECTION SYSTEMS INDICATE NUMEROUS CLOUD-TO-GROUND
LIGHTNING STRIKES ACROSS WHITE AND LUMPKIN COUNTIES...INCLUDING AREAS
AROUND CAMP MERRILL...TURNERS CORNER...DAHLONEGA...PORTER SPRINGS...
CAMP COLEMAN LAKE...WHITLEY GAP SHELTER...QUALATCHEE LAKE...SMITHGALL
WOODS CONSERVATION AREA...ROBERTSTOWN...CLEVELAND...UNICOI STATE
PARK...HELEN...LEAF...MOSSY CREEK AND ANNA RUBY FALLS. RESIDENTS IN
THIS AREA SHOULD STAY INDOORS. ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES AND TELEPHONES
SHOULD NOT BE USED UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY.
&&
LAT...LON 3479 8366 3465 8365 3453 8363 3450 8366
3454 8413 3466 8411 3466 8407 3464 8404
3468 8399 3470 8398 3473 8390 3473 8384
3475 8382
TIME...MOT...LOC 1925Z 273DEG 15KT 3461 8389
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 8:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Douglas, Fulton | 26 min |
| Jul 4, 8:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Paulding | 52 min |
| Jul 4, 9:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pulaski | 30 min |
| Jul 4, 9:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, Douglas, Fulton | 37 min |
| Jul 5, 2:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | White | 34 min |
| Jul 5, 2:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Heard | 32 min |
| Jul 5, 3:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 33 min |
| Jul 5, 3:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin | 35 min |
| Jul 5, 3:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta, Heard | 37 min |
| Jul 5, 3:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lumpkin, Union, White | 35 min |
| Jul 5, 5:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 24 min |
| Jul 5, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Toombs | 36 min |
| Jul 5, 6:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Madison | 29 min |
| Jul 5, 7:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 43 min |
| Jul 5, 7:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Barrow | 34 min |
| Jul 5, 7:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson | 26 min |
| Jul 5, 7:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb | 36 min |
| Jul 5, 7:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Gwinnett | 47 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.