Alert archive / Georgia / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jan 21, 2012, 10:04 AM EST for Carroll County, Douglas County, Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 41 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 21, 2012, 10:04 AM EST (15:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 21, 2012, 10:45 AM EST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Carroll County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fulton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:06 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 10:30 AM EST | HAIL 1.75 | Sandtown, GA |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS82 KFFC 211504
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1004 AM EST SAT JAN 21 2012
GAZ032-033-042>045-211545-
1004 AM EST SAT JAN 21 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PEA SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN CARROLL...COBB...DEKALB...DOUGLAS AND FULTON COUNTIES UNTIL 1045
AM EST...
AT 959 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER ABILENE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH ARE LIKELY AS THIS STORM MOVES ACROSS CARROLL...
COBB...DEKALB...DOUGLAS AND FULTON COUNTIES THROUGH 1045 AM EST. SOME
LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE ABILENE...BOWDON
JUNCTION...JOHN TANNER STATE PARK...CARROLLTON...MOUNT ZION...
TEMPLE...TREASURE LAKE...VILLA RICA...HANNAH...FAIRPLAY...LAKE
VAL-DO-MAR...BILL ARP...WINSTON...DOUGLASVILLE AND CHAPEL HILL.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER
RADIO...WEATHER.GOV OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR
POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON THESE STORMS.
&&
LAT...LON 3365 8529 3370 8515 3369 8511 3372 8505
3378 8505 3380 8495 3377 8489 3379 8473
3384 8472 3391 8432 3366 8427 3365 8446
3363 8446 3352 8531 3366 8534
TIME...MOT...LOC 1504Z 258DEG 30KT 3367 8502
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 7:19 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Fulton | 41 min |
| Jan 21, 8:00 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Fulton | 45 min |
| Jan 21, 8:18 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Murray | 27 min |
| Jan 21, 8:43 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Douglas, Newton, Rockdale | 47 min |
| Jan 21, 8:56 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga, Gordon, Murray, Whitfield | 34 min |
| Jan 21, 9:27 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin, Union | 33 min |
| Jan 21, 9:47 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Floyd | 43 min |
| Jan 21, 10:19 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas | 4 hr |
| Jan 21, 10:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 38 min |
| Jan 21, 10:24 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dawson | 36 min |
| Jan 21, 10:43 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth, Hall | 32 min |
| Jan 21, 10:50 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 5 hr |
| Jan 21, 10:50 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb, Rockdale, Walton | 40 min |
| Jan 21, 10:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Paulding | 46 min |
| Jan 21, 11:07 AM EST | Flash Flood Watch | FFC | Barrow, Carroll, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb and 13 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 21, 11:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton | 38 min |
| Jan 21, 11:27 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks, Jackson, Madison | 33 min |
| Jan 21, 11:28 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Fulton | 47 min |
| Jan 21, 11:32 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Oconee, Walton | 28 min |
| Jan 21, 11:32 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Douglas, Fulton | 28 min |
| Jan 21, 11:34 AM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta, Heard | 41 min |
| Jan 21, 11:44 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Greene, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Walton | 46 min |
| Jan 21, 11:57 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether, Troup | 33 min |
| Jan 21, 12:04 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Clayton | 2 hr |
| Jan 21, 12:16 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 28 min |
| Jan 21, 12:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lamar, Meriwether, Pike, Upson | 49 min |
| Jan 21, 12:29 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Oglethorpe, Wilkes | 46 min |
| Jan 21, 12:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Clayton, Henry, Spalding | 52 min |
| Jan 21, 12:43 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Morgan | 32 min |
| Jan 21, 1:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Jones, Lamar, Monroe, Upson | 45 min |
| Jan 21, 1:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Newton | 40 min |
| Jan 21, 1:11 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris | 34 min |
| Jan 21, 1:20 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Harris | 40 min |
| Jan 21, 1:30 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Upson | 30 min |
| Jan 21, 1:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock, Jasper, Jones, Putnam, Washington and 1 more | 46 min |
| Jan 21, 1:57 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Talbot | 32 min |
| Jan 21, 1:59 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Muscogee | 31 min |
| Jan 21, 2:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 25 min |
| Jan 21, 2:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Upson | 34 min |
| Jan 21, 2:21 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock, Washington, Wilkinson | 39 min |
| Jan 21, 2:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Peach, Taylor | 48 min |
| Jan 21, 2:32 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taylor | 28 min |
| Jan 21, 2:59 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jefferson, Washington | 31 min |
| Jan 21, 2:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion, Muscogee, Schley | 46 min |
| Jan 21, 3:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Macon, Taylor | 39 min |
| Jan 21, 3:07 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jefferson, Washington | 38 min |
| Jan 21, 3:20 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bleckley, Houston, Peach, Twiggs | 25 min |
| Jan 21, 3:28 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Macon | 47 min |
| Jan 21, 3:53 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Dooly, Houston | 37 min |
| Jan 21, 4:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson | 60 min |
| Jan 21, 4:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion | 43 min |
| Jan 21, 4:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pulaski, Wilcox | 42 min |
| Jan 21, 4:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Houston | 18 min |
| Jan 21, 4:29 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Stewart | 31 min |
| Jan 21, 4:36 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Pulaski | 24 min |
| Jan 21, 4:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stewart, Webster | 62 min |
| Jan 21, 4:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge | 41 min |
| Jan 21, 4:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Schley, Sumter | 39 min |
| Jan 21, 5:24 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery, Telfair, Wheeler | 66 min |
| Jan 21, 5:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair, Wheeler | 48 min |
| Jan 21, 5:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Wilcox | 15 min |
| Jan 21, 5:39 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp | 66 min |
| Jan 21, 5:50 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Telfair, Wilcox | 40 min |
| Jan 21, 6:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Toombs, Wheeler | 33 min |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.