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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2011, 4:39 PM EDT for Houston County, Peach County, Twiggs County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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 9, 2011, 4:39 PM EDT (20:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2011, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Houston County, GA, Peach County, GA, Twiggs County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 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 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 768 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 800 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
731
WWUS82 KFFC 092039
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
439 PM EDT TUE AUG 9 2011
GAZ083-094-095-092115-
439 PM EDT TUE AUG 9 2011
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR DIME SIZED HAIL AND 45 MPH WINDS
IN TWIGGS...PEACH AND HOUSTON COUNTIES UNTIL 515 PM EDT...
AT 434 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER BYRON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DIME SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS
TWIGGS...PEACH AND HOUSTON COUNTIES THROUGH 515 PM EDT. SOME
LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE LAKEWOOD...MIAMI
VALLEY...POWERVILLE...BYRON...FORT VALLEY...CENTERVILLE...HOUSTON
LAKE...ELBERTA...WARNER ROBINS...SAND BED...KATHLEEN...BONAIRE...
ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE...BULLARD AND MARION. BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS
WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3253 8391 3265 8384 3269 8377 3269 8369
3267 8367 3266 8360 3270 8361 3270 8360
3266 8336 3243 8357
TIME...MOT...LOC 2039Z 284DEG 21KT 3262 8370
$$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, 8:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 35 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, 4:43 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 |
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.