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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Feb 23, 2012, 12:58 AM EST for Lumpkin County, White 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
- Feb 23, 2012, 12:58 AM EST (05:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2012, 1:30 AM EST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Lumpkin County, GA, White County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:59 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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1264 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 362 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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WWUS82 KFFC 230558
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1258 AM EST THU FEB 23 2012
GAZ006-008-015-016-230630-
1258 AM EST THU FEB 23 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR DIME SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN WHITE...UNION...LUMPKIN AND FANNIN COUNTIES UNTIL 130 AM EST...
AT 1253 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR STOVER CREEK SHELTER...NORTH OF AMICALOLA
FALLS...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH ARE LIKELY AS THIS STORM MOVES ACROSS WHITE...
UNION...LUMPKIN AND FANNIN COUNTIES THROUGH 130 AM EST. SOME
LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE CAMP MERRILL...HAWK
MOUNTAIN SHELTER...GADDISTOWN...STOVER CREEK SHELTER...MARGRET...
GOOCH MOUNTAIN SHELTER...WOODS HOLE SHELTER...SUCHES...BLOOD MOUNTAIN
SHELTER...TURNERS CORNER...PORTER SPRINGS...WHITLEY GAP SHELTER...
CAMP COLEMAN LAKE...SMITHGALL WOODS CONSERVATION AREA AND UNICOI
STATE PARK.
&&
LAT...LON 3475 8363 3473 8362 3465 8365 3463 8363
3460 8364 3454 8361 3453 8362 3457 8419
3463 8419 3467 8424 3476 8424
TIME...MOT...LOC 0558Z 273DEG 46KT 3466 8410
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 7:44 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade | 46 min |
| Feb 22, 8:15 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa | 30 min |
| Feb 22, 8:24 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Walker | 51 min |
| Feb 22, 9:19 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Walker, Whitfield | 26 min |
| Feb 22, 9:41 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Floyd | 34 min |
| Feb 22, 9:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 37 min |
| Feb 22, 10:36 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Pickens | 24 min |
| Feb 22, 11:10 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb | 35 min |
| Feb 22, 11:24 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Barrow, Forsyth, Hall | 36 min |
| Feb 22, 11:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hall, Jackson | 28 min |
| Feb 22, 11:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Clarke, Hall, Jackson, Madison | 23 min |
| Feb 23, 12:09 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clarke, Jackson, Madison, Oglethorpe | 36 min |
| Feb 23, 12:46 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Oglethorpe, Wilkes | 29 min |
| Feb 23, 2:53 PM EST | Wind Advisory | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin and 6 more | 28 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.