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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2011, 4:02 AM EDT for Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 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, 4:02 AM EDT (08:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2011, 4:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Fulton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:01 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 45 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.
511
WWUS82 KFFC 040802
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
402 AM EDT THU AUG 4 2011
GAZ032-043-040830-
402 AM EDT THU AUG 4 2011
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EXCESSIVE CLOUD-TO-GROUND
LIGHTNING IN SOUTHERN COBB AND EASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTIES UNTIL 430 AM
EDT...
AT 357 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN AUSTELL AND LITHIA
SPRINGS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
EXCESSIVE CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE
THUNDERSTORMS. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY! LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES
NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE
CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. RESIDENTS IN THE AREA SHOULD
REMAIN INDOORS AND AWAY FROM ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES...DOORS...AND
WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. LAND-LINE TELEPHONES SHOULD
ONLY BE USED IN AN EMERGENCY.
&&
LAT...LON 3379 8473 3386 8472 3386 8445 3383 8445
3379 8452 3368 8466 3367 8465 3366 8466
3364 8473 3379 8476
TIME...MOT...LOC 0801Z 336DEG 14KT 3380 8470
$$
19The 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, 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, 4:32 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.