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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2011, 2:23 PM EDT for Troup County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 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, 2:23 PM EDT (18:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2011, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Troup County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:23 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS82 KFFC 061823
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
223 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2011
GAZ066-061900-
223 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2011
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR FREQUENT LIGHTNING IN TROUP
COUNTY UNTIL 300 PM EDT...
AT 219 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM LAGRANGE TO ABBOTTSFORD...MOVING EAST AT 10
MPH.
THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE PEA SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH AS THEY MOVE
ACROSS TROUP COUNTY THROUGH 300 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH
OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE ABBOTTSFORD...WARES
CROSSROADS...CANNONVILLE...SMITHS CROSSROAD...BIG SPRINGS...LOUISE
AND LAGRANGE. BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON
ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3315 8488 3297 8490 3294 8503 3297 8519
3309 8521 3313 8500
TIME...MOT...LOC 1823Z 270DEG 7KT 3307 8502 3306 8510
3303 8520
$$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, 2:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taylor | 29 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.