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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jan 11, 2012, 11:13 AM EST for Catoosa County, Whitfield County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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
- Jan 11, 2012, 11:13 AM EST (16:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 11, 2012, 11:45 AM EST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Catoosa County, GA, Whitfield County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 501 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 376 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 332 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
786
WWUS82 KFFC 111613
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1113 AM EST WED JAN 11 2012
GAZ003-004-111645-
1113 AM EST WED JAN 11 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PEA SIZED HAIL IN WHITFIELD AND
CATOOSA COUNTIES UNTIL 1145 AM EST...
AT 1112 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER TUNNEL HILL...AND MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.
WIND GUSTS OF 35 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE AS THIS STORM MOVES
ACROSS PARTS OF WHITFIELD AND CATOOSA COUNTIES THROUGH 1145 AM EST.
SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE MILL CREEK...ROCKY
FACE...TUNNEL HILL...WOOD STATION...RINGGOLD...VARNELL...SALEM AND
COHUTTA.
&&
LAT...LON 3498 8482 3472 8502 3478 8517 3499 8513
3499 8483
TIME...MOT...LOC 1613Z 199DEG 21KT 3483 8509
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 4:38 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 22 min |
| Jan 11, 5:11 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 34 min |
| Jan 11, 5:27 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fayette | 33 min |
| Jan 11, 5:45 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fulton | 30 min |
| Jan 11, 6:53 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pike, Spalding | 37 min |
| Jan 11, 7:11 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry, Rockdale | 34 min |
| Jan 11, 9:45 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jefferson, Johnson | 45 min |
| Jan 11, 10:28 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa | 32 min |
| Jan 11, 11:00 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Floyd | 30 min |
| Jan 11, 11:31 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga, Walker | 29 min |
| Jan 11, 11:55 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Whitfield | 35 min |
| Jan 11, 12:14 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gilmer | 31 min |
| Jan 11, 12:47 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Murray | 28 min |
| Jan 11, 1:16 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin | 29 min |
| Jan 11, 1:31 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lumpkin, Towns, Union | 29 min |
| Jan 11, 2:05 PM EST | Wind Advisory | FFC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 90 more | 34 hr |
| Jan 11, 2:21 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin, Murray and 5 more | 37 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.