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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2011, 8:25 PM EDT for Toombs County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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, 8:25 PM EDT (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2011, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Toombs County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 1313 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1130 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 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 090025
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
825 PM EDT MON AUG 8 2011
GAZ113-090100-
825 PM EDT MON AUG 8 2011
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND 50
MPH WINDS IN TOOMBS COUNTY UNTIL 900 PM EDT...
AT 824 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NEW BRANCH...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DIME SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS
TOOMBS COUNTY THROUGH 900 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM INCLUDE PONDEROSA...OHOOPEE...TOOMBS CENTRAL...NEW BRANCH...
JOHNSON CORNER AND SANTA CLAUS. BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE
PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3212 8219 3202 8220 3199 8221 3202 8236
3220 8233 3219 8219 3218 8218 3215 8218
TIME...MOT...LOC 0025Z 277DEG 10KT 3210 8224
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 8:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Heard, Troup | 42 min |
| Aug 8, 8:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry, Rockdale | 28 min |
| Aug 8, 8:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Oconee, Walton | 48 min |
| Aug 8, 8:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin | 45 min |
| Aug 8, 8:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jefferson | 28 min |
| Aug 8, 8:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson | 34 min |
| Aug 8, 9:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp | 25 min |
| Aug 8, 9:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fayette, Spalding | 39 min |
| Aug 8, 9:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris | 37 min |
| Aug 8, 9:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jefferson | 36 min |
| Aug 8, 10:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lamar, Monroe | 44 min |
| Aug 8, 10:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb | 33 min |
| Aug 9, 2:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb, Twiggs | 50 min |
| Aug 9, 2:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Muscogee, Pike, Talbot, Upson | 45 min |
| Aug 9, 3:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pike | 27 min |
| Aug 9, 3:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crawford, Taylor, Upson | 49 min |
| Aug 9, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Monroe, Pike, Upson | 52 min |
| Aug 9, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks | 52 min |
| Aug 9, 4:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson | 32 min |
| Aug 9, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 44 min |
| Aug 9, 4:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Houston, Peach, Twiggs | 36 min |
| Aug 9, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Dodge, Pulaski | 47 min |
| Aug 9, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Jones | 47 min |
| Aug 9, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Stewart | 36 min |
| Aug 9, 4:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 50 min |
| Aug 9, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Jefferson | 45 min |
| Aug 9, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs | 42 min |
| Aug 9, 5:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Treutlen | 32 min |
| Aug 9, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Wilkinson | 35 min |
| Aug 9, 5:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Schley, Stewart, Webster | 26 min |
| Aug 9, 5:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Telfair | 24 min |
| Aug 9, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 36 min |
| Aug 9, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp | 30 min |
| Aug 9, 5:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 36 min |
| Aug 9, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair | 26 min |
| Aug 9, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Toombs | 25 min |
| Aug 9, 7:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Morgan | 31 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.