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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Dec 22, 2011, 6:35 PM EST for Marion County, Schley County, Taylor County, Georgia. It was in force for 25 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
- Dec 22, 2011, 6:35 PM EST (23:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 22, 2011, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Marion County, GA, Schley County, GA, Taylor County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:39 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 549 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 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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The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Atlanta, GA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Dec 22, 6:25 PM EST, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 22, 6:25 PM EST, 10 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 242 PM EST THU DEC 22 2011 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-230945- BALDWIN-BANKS-BARROW-BARTOW-BIBB-BLECKLEY-BUTTS-CARROLL-CATOOSA- CHATTAHOOCHEE-CHATTOOGA-CHEROKEE-CLARKE-CLAYTON-COBB-COWETA- CRAWFORD-CRISP-DADE-DAWSON-DEKALB-DODGE-DOOLY-DOUGLAS-EMANUEL- FANNIN-FAYETTE-FLOYD-FORSYTH-GILMER-GLASCOCK-GORDON-GREENE- GWINNETT-HALL-HANCOCK-HARALSON-HARRIS-HEARD-HENRY-HOUSTON-JACKSON- JASPER-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-JONES-LAMAR-LAURENS-LUMPKIN-MACON- MADISON-MARION-MERIWETHER-MONROE-MONTGOMERY-MORGAN-MURRAY- MUSCOGEE-NEWTON-NORTH FULTON-OCONEE-OGLETHORPE-PAULDING-PEACH- PICKENS-PIKE-POLK-PULASKI-PUTNAM-ROCKDALE-SCHLEY-SOUTH FULTON- SPALDING-STEWART-SUMTER-TALBOT-TALIAFERRO-TAYLOR-TELFAIR-TOOMBS- TOWNS-TREUTLEN-TROUP-TWIGGS-UNION-UPSON-WALKER-WALTON-WARREN- WASHINGTON-WEBSTER-WHEELER-WHITE-WHITFIELD-WILCOX-WILKES- WILKINSON- 242 PM EST THU DEC 22 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH MID EVENING OVER NORTH GEORGIA...MAINLY WEST OF A BLAIRSVILLE TO ATLANTA TO COLUMBUS LINE. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING OVER MIDDLE GEORGIA...MAINLY WEST OF AN WASHINGTON TO EASTMAN LINE. .SYNOPSIS... RICH MOISTURE AHEAD OF A STRONG STORM SYSTEM SHOULD PROVIDE SUFFICIENT INSTABILITY FOR ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MIDNIGHT ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .PRIMARY HAZARDS... DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THE MOST LIKELY TIME FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE FROM 4 PM UNTIL 9 PM. .DISCUSSION... RICH LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND UNUSUALLY STRONG VERTICAL WIND SHEAR IN THE LOW LEVELS SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT FOR A FEW LINEAR OR QUASI- LINEAR THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE INSTABILITY IS EXPECTED TO DECREASE TONIGHT AND SHOULD PRECLUDE THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AFTER MIDNIGHT. HOWEVER... SEVERE STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP THROUGH MID EVENING COULD PRODUCE A BRIEF TORNADO. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST INFORMATION FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION ACROSS AREAS WEST OF BLAIRSVILLE TO ATLANTA TO COLUMBUS THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH ABOUT 9 PM THIS EVENING.
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Dec 21, 9:11 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Catoosa and 47 more | 11 hr |
| Dec 22, 8:04 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Catoosa and 47 more | 116 min |
| Dec 22, 3:51 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd, Haralson, Polk | 39 min |
| Dec 22, 4:14 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 61 min |
| Dec 22, 4:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 32 min |
| Dec 22, 4:34 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Towns, Union | 26 min |
| Dec 22, 4:37 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon, Murray and 2 more | 53 min |
| Dec 22, 4:39 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Heard, Troup | 66 min |
| Dec 22, 4:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Floyd, Gordon | 23 min |
| Dec 22, 4:56 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Paulding | 34 min |
| Dec 22, 5:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon | 32 min |
| Dec 22, 5:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Fulton, Heard | 45 min |
| Dec 22, 5:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Murray, Pickens | 25 min |
| Dec 22, 5:29 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth, Pickens | 31 min |
| Dec 22, 5:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Meriwether, Troup | 43 min |
| Dec 22, 5:36 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb | 24 min |
| Dec 22, 5:40 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether | 35 min |
| Dec 22, 5:44 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Meriwether | 46 min |
| Dec 22, 6:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Pike, Talbot, Upson | 43 min |
| Dec 22, 6:08 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall | 37 min |
| Dec 22, 6:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette, Henry, Pike, Spalding | 49 min |
| Dec 22, 6:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall | 27 min |
| Dec 22, 6:43 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lamar, Monroe, Upson | 47 min |
| Dec 22, 6:58 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Clarke, Gwinnett, Jackson, Madison and 1 more | 47 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Georgia, 2011Every special weather statement in 2011
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.