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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2011, 5:21 PM EDT for Telfair County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 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, 5:21 PM EDT (21:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2011, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Telfair County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS82 KFFC 092121
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
521 PM EDT TUE AUG 9 2011
GAZ110-092145-
521 PM EDT TUE AUG 9 2011
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PEA SIZED HAIL AND 45 MPH WINDS
IN TELFAIR COUNTY UNTIL 545 PM EDT...
AT 520 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER WORKMORE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE PEA SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS
TELFAIR COUNTY THROUGH 545 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM INCLUDE WORKMORE...HELENA...MCRAE...TOWNS AND SCOTLAND. 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 3190 8304 3208 8298 3209 8289 3206 8286
3205 8281 3202 8278 3201 8273 3197 8270
3189 8273
TIME...MOT...LOC 2121Z 268DEG 15KT 3200 8293
$$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 | 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, 5:39 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.