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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 6, 2011Taylor County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2011, 2:01 PM EDT for Taylor County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 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, 2:01 PM EDT (18:01 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2011, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Taylor County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:02 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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 89 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.

132 
WWUS82 KFFC 061801
SPSFFC

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

GAZ080-061830-
201 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR FREQUENT LIGHTNING IN TAYLOR
COUNTY UNTIL 230 PM EDT...

AT 158 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER BUTLER...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.

THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE PEA SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS
TAYLOR COUNTY THROUGH 230 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM INCLUDE WESLEY CHURCH...HOWARD...POTTERVILLE...FICKLING MILL...
REYNOLDS AND BUTLER. BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF
WATER ON ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 3248 8441 3261 8441 3264 8437 3267 8437
      3269 8419 3268 8419 3268 8415 3267 8413
      3268 8410 3265 8408 3251 8408 3251 8411
      3246 8415
TIME...MOT...LOC 1801Z 269DEG 5KT 3257 8430

$$

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, 1:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Talbot	28 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

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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.