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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 9, 2011Treutlen County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2011, 5:13 PM EDT for Treutlen County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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, 5:13 PM EDT (21:13 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2011, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Treutlen County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 214 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: 640 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1043 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -13 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.

426 
WWUS82 KFFC 092113
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
513 PM EDT TUE AUG 9 2011

GAZ086-098-112-113-092145-
513 PM EDT TUE AUG 9 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR DIME SIZED HAIL AND 45 MPH WINDS 
IN TREUTLEN...NORTHERN TOOMBS...NORTHERN MONTGOMERY AND SOUTHERN 
EMANUEL COUNTIES UNTIL 545 PM EDT...

AT 511 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER ZAIDEE...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. SOME LOCATIONS 
IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE KIBBEE...TARRYTOWN...ZAIDEE...FIVE 
POINTS...NORMANTOWN...OAK PARK AND STILLMORE. BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS 
WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.

SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORIES ARE ISSUED FOR WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...
HAIL LESS THAN THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...OR SIGNIFICANT CLOUD-TO-GROUND
LIGHTNING.

&&

LAT...LON 3236 8224 3234 8223 3226 8221 3225 8221
      3229 8262 3246 8252 3246 8218 3243 8218
TIME...MOT...LOC 2113Z 273DEG 24KT 3237 8250

$$

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, 4:39 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	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.