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Winter Weather Advisory 1, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this winter weather advisory at Jan 7, 2011, 10:18 PM EST for Fannin County, Towns County, Union County, Georgia. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 7, 2011, 10:18 PM EST (03:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 8, 2011, 9:00 AM EST
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Fannin County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2092 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter weather advisory 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 winter weather advisory went out at Jan 7, 9:50 PM EST, 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 7, 9:50 PM EST, 28 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 7, 1:50 PM EST, 8 hours 28 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 150 PM EST FRI JAN 7 2011 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-081015- 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- 150 PM EST FRI JAN 7 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON. WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND PARTS OF NORTH GEORGIA. .SYNOPSIS... A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. .PRIMARY HAZARDS... THE PRIMARY HAZARD WILL BE STRONG GUSTY WINDS FROM ROME TO SOUTH OF GAINESVILLE THIS AFTERNOON. .DISCUSSION... THE APPROACH OF A COLD FRONT WILL ENHANCE THE SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT ALLOWING FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS THIS AFTERNOON... DIMINISHING BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA BY EVENING. SEE THE LATEST WIND ADVISORY STATEMENT FOR MORE DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. A PERIOD OF WINDY CONDITIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE ON SATURDAY. A SIGNIFICANT MIX OF WINTER WEATHER CAN BE EXPECTED LATER SUNDAY INTO TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. BDL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 3:42 AM EST | Wind Advisory | FFC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 61 more | 15 hr |
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.