Alert archive / Georgia / Special Weather Statements in 2011
Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Sep 21, 2011, 9:21 AM EDT for Jones County, Georgia. It was in force for 54 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
- Sep 21, 2011, 9:21 AM EDT (13:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 21, 2011, 10:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Jones County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:22 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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 452 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 503 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
511
WWUS82 KFFC 211321
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
921 AM EDT WED SEP 21 2011
GAZ072-211415-
921 AM EDT WED SEP 21 2011
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HEAVY RAIN IN JONES COUNTY UNTIL
1015 AM EDT...
AT 913 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN 7 MILES SOUTH OF JARRELL PLANTATION...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. SINCE 500 AM EDT TWO TO FOUR INCHES OF
RAIN HAS OCCURRED WITH AN ISOLATED SIX INCHES OVER CEDAR CREEK IN
THE CEDAR CREEK WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA IN NORTH CENTRAL JONES
COUNTY.
RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS
AND STREAMS...AND ROADS ACROSS JONES COUNTY...INCLUDING AREAS AROUND
JARRELL PLANTATION...POSTELL...WAYSIDE...CLINTON...BRADLEY...ROUND
OAK...GRAY...JAMES...GREENBERRY CROSSROADS...HADDOCK...BLOUNTSVILLE
AND ETHRIDGE. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS ARE SUBJECT TO MINOR FLOODING.
&&
LAT...LON 3289 8360 3289 8365 3290 8367 3298 8372
3300 8372 3305 8374 3317 8355 3318 8343
3295 8337 3287 8355 3288 8357 3287 8358
TIME...MOT...LOC 1317Z 240DEG 16KT 3296 8367
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 8:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris, Heard, Troup | 40 min |
| Sep 20, 9:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris, Troup | 38 min |
| Sep 20, 9:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock, Hancock | 44 min |
| Sep 20, 9:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris, Troup | 23 min |
| Sep 20, 10:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris | 66 min |
| Sep 20, 11:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris, Muscogee, Talbot | 58 min |
| Sep 21, 12:49 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris, Muscogee, Talbot | 56 min |
| Sep 21, 4:28 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether | 62 min |
| Sep 21, 6:23 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jones, Putnam | 52 min |
| Sep 21, 7:13 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Putnam | 62 min |
| Sep 21, 8:26 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jones, Putnam | 49 min |
| Sep 21, 3:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery, Toombs | 40 min |
| Sep 21, 4:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Treutlen | 39 min |
| Sep 21, 5:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 33 min |
| Sep 21, 6:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge, Laurens | 49 min |
| Sep 21, 7:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Washington | 48 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.