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, 1:37 AM EDT for Gordon County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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, 1:37 AM EDT (05:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2011, 2:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Gordon County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:39 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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 119 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.
996
WWUS82 KFFC 040537
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
137 AM EDT THU AUG 4 2011
GAZ012-020-040615-
137 AM EDT THU AUG 4 2011
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PEA SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN BARTOW AND GORDON COUNTIES UNTIL 215 AM EDT...
AT 135 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER SONORAVILLE...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.
IN ADDITION TO THE WIND AND HAIL POTENTIAL...LIGHTNING DETECTION
SYSTEMS INDICATE NUMEROUS CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES ACROSS
BARTOW AND GORDON COUNTIES...INCLUDING AREAS AROUND
RANGER...SONORAVILLE...FAIRMOUNT...PINE LOG...FUNKHOUSER AND FOLSOM.
RESIDENTS IN THIS AREA SHOULD STAY INDOORS. ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES
AND TELEPHONES SHOULD NOT BE USED UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY.
&&
LAT...LON 3455 8469 3445 8465 3436 8466 3435 8464
3434 8466 3431 8486 3451 8488
TIME...MOT...LOC 0537Z 346DEG 11KT 3450 8479
$$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, 1:12 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Union, White | 48 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.