Alert archive / Georgia / Special Weather Statements in 2011
Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2011, 12:50 AM EDT for Gordon County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 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
- Aug 4, 2011, 12:50 AM EDT (04:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2011, 1:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Gordon County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:53 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 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 653 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2115 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 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 040450
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1250 AM EDT THU AUG 4 2011
GAZ005-007-012-013-021-040530-
1250 AM EDT THU AUG 4 2011
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR DIME SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN PICKENS...MURRAY...CHEROKEE...GILMER AND GORDON COUNTIES UNTIL 130
AM EDT...
AT 1244 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER RAMHURST...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.
IN ADDITION TO THE WIND AND HAIL POTENTIAL...LIGHTNING DETECTION
SYSTEMS INDICATE NUMEROUS CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES ACROSS
PICKENS...MURRAY...CHEROKEE...GILMER AND GORDON COUNTIES...INCLUDING
AREAS AROUND NORTH GEORGIA
SPEEDWAY...RAMHURST...AUDUBON...CARTERS...REDBUD...OAKMAN...RANGER...
HINTON AND FAIRMOUNT. RESIDENTS IN THIS AREA SHOULD STAY INDOORS.
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES AND TELEPHONES SHOULD NOT BE USED UNLESS IN AN
EMERGENCY.
&&
LAT...LON 3444 8454 3440 8465 3441 8465 3442 8473
3440 8474 3440 8479 3440 8480 3471 8485
3476 8467
TIME...MOT...LOC 0449Z 347DEG 23KT 3466 8475
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 1:12 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Union, White | 48 min |
| Aug 4, 1:37 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gordon | 38 min |
| Aug 4, 2:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 38 min |
| Aug 4, 2:53 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Paulding | 22 min |
| Aug 4, 3:30 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton, Paulding | 45 min |
| Aug 4, 4:02 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fulton | 28 min |
| Aug 4, 4:32 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fayette | 43 min |
| Aug 4, 1:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Floyd | 23 min |
| Aug 4, 1:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 33 min |
| Aug 4, 3:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 30 min |
| Aug 4, 3:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkes | 28 min |
| Aug 4, 4:16 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Chattahoochee, Clarke, Crawford and 40 more | 5 days |
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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.