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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 8, 2011Fannin County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2011, 12:49 AM EDT for Fannin County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 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 8, 2011, 12:49 AM EDT (04:49 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 2011, 1:15 AM EDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA

County Fannin County, GA

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 171 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2011-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2978 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2011-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 76 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2978 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1110 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
148 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.

292 
WWUS82 KFFC 080449
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1249 AM EDT MON AUG 8 2011

GAZ006-080515-
1249 AM EDT MON AUG 8 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PEA SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN FANNIN COUNTY UNTIL 115 AM EDT...

AT 1244 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER MCCAYSVILLE-COPPERHILL...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
15 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
FANNIN COUNTY THROUGH 115 AM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM INCLUDE MCCAYSVILLE-COPPERHILL...EPWORTH...
MCCAYSVILLE-COPPERHILL...HEMP...DIAL...HURST...LOVING...MORGANTON...
MINERAL BLUFF AND BLUE RIDGE. BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE
PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 3499 8418 3497 8415 3495 8418 3494 8417
      3491 8412 3489 8411 3485 8414 3481 8414
      3480 8413 3471 8425 3480 8431 3484 8437
      3499 8452
TIME...MOT...LOC 0449Z 303DEG 13KT 3500 8438

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 8:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCClarke, Oconee, Walton31 min
Aug 7, 10:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCTowns, Union35 min
Aug 7, 11:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCatoosa, Dade31 min
Aug 7, 11:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCatoosa, Dade, Walker30 min
Aug 8, 12:23 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCChattooga, Walker37 min
Aug 8, 1:10 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCFannin50 min
Aug 8, 2:15 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCLumpkin30 min
Aug 8, 2:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCTowns, White49 min
Aug 8, 3:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCoweta32 min
Aug 8, 4:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMeriwether, Pike36 min
Aug 8, 4:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCLamar, Pike, Spalding46 min
Aug 8, 5:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDade, Walker35 min
Aug 8, 5:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCPickens41 min
Aug 8, 5:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHall38 min
Aug 8, 5:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDade, Walker52 min
Aug 8, 6:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHarris28 min
Aug 8, 6:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBibb, Jones, Twiggs24 min
Aug 8, 6:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCherokee, Pickens50 min
Aug 8, 6:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCLaurens33 min
Aug 8, 6:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJones, Twiggs, Wilkinson26 min
Aug 8, 6:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDodge, Pulaski34 min
Aug 8, 6:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCGordon47 min
Aug 8, 6:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCWilkinson30 min
Aug 8, 6:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBartow, Cherokee, Gordon, Pickens37 min
Aug 8, 6:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBibb, Jones, Twiggs, Wilkinson36 min
Aug 8, 6:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCTreutlen33 min
Aug 8, 6:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHouston26 min
Aug 8, 6:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCChattahoochee, Macon, Marion, Muscogee, Schley36 min
Aug 8, 7:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBleckley28 min
Aug 8, 7:08 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHeard52 min
Aug 8, 7:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCPickens34 min
Aug 8, 7:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCWilkinson33 min
Aug 8, 7:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMontgomery, Treutlen30 min
Aug 8, 7:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBleckley, Dooly, Pulaski27 min
Aug 8, 7:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCTaliaferro37 min
Aug 8, 7:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCChattahoochee, Marion, Schley, Stewart, Sumter, Webster63 min
Aug 8, 7:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCrisp, Dodge, Dooly, Laurens, Pulaski, Telfair and 1 more34 min
Aug 8, 7:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDeKalb, Fulton33 min
Aug 8, 7:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCEmanuel, Jefferson, Johnson, Montgomery, Treutlen, Washington31 min
Aug 8, 7:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCToombs27 min
Aug 8, 7:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCGlascock, Warren32 min

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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.