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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 9, 2011Pickens County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 9, 2011, 4:15 AM EDT for Pickens County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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 9, 2011, 4:15 AM EDT (08:15 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2011, 4:45 AM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Pickens County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:17 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 115 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: 894 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1649 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 37 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 Jul 9, 3:28 AM EDT, 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 3:28 AM EDT, 47 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 8, 10:59 PM EDT, 5 hours 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 9, 4:15 AM 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
Jul 8, 8:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jasper	32 min
Jul 8, 8:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Putnam	39 min
Jul 8, 8:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Douglas	51 min
Jul 8, 8:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper, Morgan, Putnam	38 min
Jul 8, 8:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fulton	25 min
Jul 8, 9:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Greene, Hancock	28 min
Jul 9, 1:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clayton	49 min
Jul 9, 2:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jefferson	25 min
Jul 9, 3:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin	39 min
Jul 9, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Pulaski	52 min
Jul 9, 4:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jones	25 min
Jul 9, 4:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Upson	35 min
Jul 9, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Washington	28 min
Jul 9, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jones	36 min
Jul 9, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crawford	47 min
Jul 9, 5:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Troup	27 min
Jul 9, 5:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Crawford	41 min
Jul 9, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkinson	35 min
Jul 9, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkinson	33 min
Jul 9, 5:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta, Fayette	40 min
Jul 9, 5:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Johnson	32 min
Jul 9, 6:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkinson	42 min
Jul 9, 6:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Meriwether, Pike, Spalding	35 min
Jul 9, 6:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Treutlen	38 min
Jul 9, 6:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel	37 min
Jul 9, 7:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	White	45 min
Jul 9, 7:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris	24 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.