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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 6, 2011Talbot County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2011, 1:32 PM EDT for Talbot 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 6, 2011, 1:32 PM EDT (17:32 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2011, 2:00 PM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Talbot County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 67 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1302 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 790 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 1 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

073 
WWUS82 KFFC 061732
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
132 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2011

GAZ079-061800-
132 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR FREQUENT LIGHTNING IN TALBOT
COUNTY UNTIL 200 PM EDT...

AT 128 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR PLEASANT HILL...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.

THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND 
LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS THEY MOVE ACROSS TALBOT COUNTY 
THROUGH 200 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS 
INCLUDE WOODLAND...PLEASANT HILL...PO BIDDY CROSSROADS...BIG LAZER 
CREEK WMA AND PRATTSBURG. BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING 
OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 3285 8458 3287 8452 3287 8448 3282 8445
      3284 8442 3278 8438 3279 8435 3276 8433
      3275 8430 3273 8430 3272 8434 3268 8434
      3268 8436 3265 8437 3269 8461
TIME...MOT...LOC 1732Z 277DEG 6KT 3277 8449

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 5, 8:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Rockdale, Walton	27 min
Aug 5, 8:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	DeKalb	31 min
Aug 6, 12:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Muscogee	32 min
Aug 6, 1:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Upson	30 min
Aug 6, 2:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taylor	29 min
Aug 6, 2:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Troup	37 min
Aug 6, 2:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Coweta	36 min
Aug 6, 2:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Hancock	51 min
Aug 6, 3:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Coweta	34 min
Aug 6, 3:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fayette	33 min
Aug 6, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fayette	32 min
Aug 6, 4:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Spalding	29 min
Aug 6, 4:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clayton, Henry, Spalding	26 min
Aug 6, 5:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Douglas	25 min
Aug 6, 5:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts, Jasper	37 min
Aug 6, 5:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	DeKalb	27 min
Aug 6, 5:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Laurens	32 min
Aug 6, 5:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton	31 min
Aug 6, 6:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Johnson	35 min
Aug 6, 6:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Glascock, Warren, Washington	23 min
Aug 6, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hancock, Washington	43 min
Aug 6, 7:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Montgomery, Toombs	34 min
Aug 6, 7:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Glascock, Jefferson, Warren	35 min
Aug 6, 7:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Glascock, Jefferson, Warren	36 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Georgia, 2011 Every special weather statement in 2011

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.