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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

November 22, 2011Meriwether County, Pike County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Nov 22, 2011, 7:21 PM EST for Meriwether County, Pike 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: Nov 22, 2011, 7:21 PM EST (00:21 UTC)
Expired: Nov 22, 2011, 7:45 PM EST
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

Counties Meriwether County, GA, Pike County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 18 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: 389 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 727 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 247 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 312 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 5.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

543 
WWUS82 KFFC 230021
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
721 PM EST TUE NOV 22 2011

GAZ053-054-056-067-068-230045-
721 PM EST TUE NOV 22 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR 45 MPH WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN IN 
SPALDING...PIKE...MERIWETHER...COWETA AND FAYETTE COUNTIES UNTIL 745 
PM EST...

AT 718 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR GREENVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 45 MPH AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY AS THESE STORMS MOVE 
ACROSS SPALDING...PIKE...MERIWETHER...COWETA AND FAYETTE COUNTIES 
THROUGH 745 PM EST. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS 
INCLUDE HARRIS CITY...GREENVILLE...LUTHERSVILLE...ROCKY 
MOUNT...WOOSTER...IMLAC...GAY...ALVATON...TURIN...CONCORD...HILLTOP..
.HOLLONVILLE...WILLIAMSON...ZEBULON AND VAUGHN.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM EST. CONTINUE TO 
MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO...WEATHER.GOV OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS FOR 
FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON THESE STORMS.

&&

LAT...LON 3335 8439 3308 8430 3293 8481 3333 8481
TIME...MOT...LOC 0019Z 247DEG 30KT 3305 8474

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 22, 7:07 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Muscogee	23 min
Nov 22, 7:13 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett and 1 more	32 min
Nov 22, 7:29 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Harris, Meriwether, Muscogee and 1 more	31 min
Nov 22, 7:43 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	DeKalb, Forsyth, Gwinnett, Hall	47 min
Nov 22, 7:47 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts, Crawford, Henry, Jasper, Lamar, Monroe and 5 more	28 min
Nov 22, 8:00 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Clayton, Fayette, Harris, Henry, Meriwether and 6 more	30 min
Nov 22, 8:11 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Banks, Barrow, Hall, Jackson	34 min
Nov 22, 8:14 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts, Crawford, Jasper, Lamar, Monroe, Newton and 2 more	31 min
Nov 22, 8:28 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts, Chattahoochee, Henry, Lamar, Marion, Muscogee and 8 more	32 min
Nov 22, 8:58 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clarke, Madison, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe	32 min
Nov 22, 9:00 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin, Bibb, Crawford, Jones, Macon, Marion and 5 more	30 min
Nov 22, 9:41 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Greene, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Wilkes	49 min
Nov 22, 10:33 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crisp, Dooly, Pulaski	27 min
Nov 22, 10:54 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bleckley, Crisp, Dooly, Pulaski	36 min
Nov 22, 11:03 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Dodge, Laurens, Pulaski	27 min
Nov 22, 11:29 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crisp, Dodge, Johnson, Laurens, Treutlen, Wilcox	46 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.