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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2011, 1:12 AM EDT for Union County, White County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 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, 1:12 AM EDT (05:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2011, 2:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Union County, GA, White County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:11 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, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 169 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 040512
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
112 AM EDT THU AUG 4 2011
GAZ008-015-016-040600-
112 AM EDT THU AUG 4 2011
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PEA SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN WHITE...UNION AND LUMPKIN COUNTIES UNTIL 200 AM EDT...
AT 107 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER BLAIRSVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
IN ADDITION TO THE WIND AND HAIL POTENTIAL...LIGHTNING DETECTION
SYSTEMS INDICATE NUMEROUS CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES ACROSS
WHITE...UNION AND LUMPKIN COUNTIES...INCLUDING AREAS AROUND
BLAIRSVILLE...TRACK ROCK...OWLTOWN...VOGEL STATE PARK...BLOOD
MOUNTAIN SHELTER...WOODS HOLE SHELTER...LOW GAP SHELTER...WHITLEY
GAP SHELTER...QUALATCHEE LAKE...SMITHGALL WOODS CONSERVATION
AREA...CAMP COLEMAN LAKE...UNICOI STATE PARK...ANNA RUBY
FALLS...ROBERTSTOWN AND HELEN. RESIDENTS IN THIS AREA SHOULD STAY
INDOORS. ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES AND TELEPHONES SHOULD NOT BE USED
UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY.
&&
LAT...LON 3484 8379 3483 8380 3482 8378 3479 8377
3480 8374 3475 8367 3454 8369 3461 8391
3484 8405 3491 8390
TIME...MOT...LOC 0511Z 324DEG 7KT 3485 8394
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 12:50 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gordon | 40 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 |
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.