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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 8, 2011Bleckley County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2011, 7:02 PM EDT for Bleckley 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 8, 2011, 7:02 PM EDT (23:02 UTC)
Expired: Aug 8, 2011, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Bleckley County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 155 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: 940 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -128 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1139 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 35 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.

215 
WWUS82 KFFC 082302
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
702 PM EDT MON AUG 8 2011

GAZ083-084-096-097-082330-
702 PM EDT MON AUG 8 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR 50 MPH WINDS IN TWIGGS...
LAURENS...WILKINSON AND BLECKLEY COUNTIES UNTIL 730 PM EDT...

AT 657 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 50 MPH ARE LIKELY AS THESE STORMS MOVE ACROSS TWIGGS...
LAURENS...WILKINSON AND BLECKLEY COUNTIES THROUGH 730 PM EDT. SOME
LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE CARY...DANVILLE...
ALLENTOWN...CHAPPELLS MILL...MONTROSE...DUDLEY...GOLDSBORO AND REBIE.

THESE WIND GUSTS MAY PRODUCE MINOR DAMAGE TO TREE LIMBS AND BLOW
LIGHT...UNSECURED OBJECTS AROUND.

&&

LAT...LON 3245 8317 3243 8321 3255 8339 3272 8323
      3265 8294 3242 8314
TIME...MOT...LOC 2303Z 300DEG 9KT 3262 8326

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 7, 8:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clarke, Oconee, Walton	31 min
Aug 7, 10:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Towns, Union	35 min
Aug 7, 11:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Catoosa, Dade	31 min
Aug 7, 11:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Catoosa, Dade, Walker	30 min
Aug 8, 12:23 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattooga, Walker	37 min
Aug 8, 12:49 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fannin	26 min
Aug 8, 1:10 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fannin	50 min
Aug 8, 2:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Lumpkin	30 min
Aug 8, 2:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Towns, White	49 min
Aug 8, 3:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Coweta	32 min
Aug 8, 4:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Meriwether, Pike	36 min
Aug 8, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Lamar, Pike, Spalding	46 min
Aug 8, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dade, Walker	35 min
Aug 8, 5:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Pickens	41 min
Aug 8, 5:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Hall	38 min
Aug 8, 5:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dade, Walker	52 min
Aug 8, 6:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris	28 min
Aug 8, 6:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb, Jones, Twiggs	24 min
Aug 8, 6:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cherokee, Pickens	50 min
Aug 8, 6:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Laurens	33 min
Aug 8, 6:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jones, Twiggs, Wilkinson	26 min
Aug 8, 6:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dodge, Pulaski	34 min
Aug 8, 6:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gordon	47 min
Aug 8, 6:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkinson	30 min
Aug 8, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee, Gordon, Pickens	37 min
Aug 8, 6:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Jones, Twiggs, Wilkinson	36 min
Aug 8, 6:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Treutlen	33 min
Aug 8, 6:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Houston	26 min
Aug 8, 6:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Macon, Marion, Muscogee, Schley	36 min
Aug 8, 7:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Heard	52 min
Aug 8, 7:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Pickens	34 min
Aug 8, 7:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkinson	33 min
Aug 8, 7:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Montgomery, Treutlen	30 min
Aug 8, 7:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bleckley, Dooly, Pulaski	27 min
Aug 8, 7:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taliaferro	37 min
Aug 8, 7:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Marion, Schley, Stewart, Sumter, Webster	63 min
Aug 8, 7:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crisp, Dodge, Dooly, Laurens, Pulaski, Telfair and 1 more	34 min
Aug 8, 7:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton	33 min
Aug 8, 7:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel, Jefferson, Johnson, Montgomery, Treutlen, Washington	31 min
Aug 8, 7:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Toombs	27 min
Aug 8, 7:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Glascock, Warren	32 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.