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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2011, 1:22 PM EDT for Floyd County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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, 1:22 PM EDT (17:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2011, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Floyd County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:25 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 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 1024 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -247 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1334 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 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 041722
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
122 PM EDT THU AUG 4 2011
GAZ011-019-041745-
122 PM EDT THU AUG 4 2011
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PEA SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN CHATTOOGA AND FLOYD COUNTIES UNTIL 145 PM EDT...
AT 118 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER TIDINGS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE PEA SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS
CHATTOOGA AND FLOYD COUNTIES THROUGH 145 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN
THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE TIDINGS...JAMES H. FLOYD STATE PARK...
ARMUCHEE...PINSON...LINDALE...ROME...COOSA AND SHANNON. BRIEF HEAVY
DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3453 8516 3443 8509 3442 8511 3440 8507
3432 8502 3425 8502 3422 8503 3421 8505
3415 8505 3413 8532 3446 8536
TIME...MOT...LOC 1722Z 337DEG 17KT 3441 8521
$$
16The 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, 4:02 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fulton | 28 min |
| Aug 4, 4:32 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fayette | 43 min |
| Aug 4, 1:42 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.