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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 20, 2011, 4:00 PM EDT for Floyd County, Paulding County, Polk County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 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 20, 2011, 4:00 PM EDT (20:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2011, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Floyd County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Polk County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 2211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 771 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
109
WWUS82 KFFC 202000
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
400 PM EDT WED JUL 20 2011
GAZ019-020-030-031-202045-
400 PM EDT WED JUL 20 2011
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING AND HEAVY
RAIN IN POLK...PAULDING...BARTOW AND FLOYD COUNTIES UNTIL 445 PM
EDT...
AT 356 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM ROME TO DALLAS...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15
MPH.
LIGHTNING DETECTION SYSTEMS INDICATE NUMEROUS CLOUD-TO-GROUND
LIGHTNING STRIKES ACROSS POLK...PAULDING...BARTOW AND FLOYD
COUNTIES...INCLUDING AREAS AROUND HIRAM...DALLAS...NEW HOPE...CROSS
ROADS...BURNT HICKORY RIDGE...TAYLORSVILLE...STILESBORO...
CARTERSVILLE...EUHARLEE...KINGSTON...SHANNON...ROME...BRASWELL...
ARAGON AND LINDALE. RESIDENTS IN THIS AREA SHOULD STAY INDOORS.
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES AND TELEPHONES SHOULD NOT BE USED UNLESS IN AN
EMERGENCY.
RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES HAVE FALLEN SINCE 3 PM. ADDITIONAL
RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN 1 TO 2 INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE
AREA. DRIVERS SHOULD USE CAUTION AS INTENSE RAINFALL WILL REDUCE
VISIBILITIES. PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS IS ALSO LIKELY.
&&
LAT...LON 3437 8510 3415 8476 3388 8474 3377 8486
3381 8504 3390 8503 3391 8515 3415 8535
TIME...MOT...LOC 1959Z 044DEG 12KT 3423 8512 3404 8496
3389 8486
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 1:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 33 min |
| Jul 20, 1:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee | 23 min |
| Jul 20, 1:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 37 min |
| Jul 20, 1:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee | 43 min |
| Jul 20, 2:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Douglas | 38 min |
| Jul 20, 2:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jackson | 26 min |
| Jul 20, 2:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pickens | 32 min |
| Jul 20, 2:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 23 min |
| Jul 20, 2:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin | 36 min |
| Jul 20, 3:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Paulding | 50 min |
| Jul 20, 3:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pickens | 27 min |
| Jul 20, 3:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 49 min |
| Jul 20, 3:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Douglas, Fulton | 48 min |
| Jul 20, 3:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, Douglas, Fulton | 48 min |
| Jul 20, 4:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 35 min |
| Jul 20, 4:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Twiggs, Wilkinson | 46 min |
| Jul 20, 4:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jones | 32 min |
| Jul 20, 4:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clarke, Madison, Oglethorpe | 60 min |
| Jul 20, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Walton | 29 min |
| Jul 20, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 25 min |
| Jul 20, 4:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow, Floyd, Haralson, Paulding, Polk | 46 min |
| Jul 20, 5:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jasper | 32 min |
| Jul 20, 5:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Newton | 37 min |
| Jul 20, 7:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dawson, Pickens | 36 min |
| Jul 20, 7:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth | 31 min |
| Jul 20, 7:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gilmer | 30 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.