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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Mar 2, 2012, 4:55 PM EST for Heard County, Troup County, Georgia. It was in force for 50 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
- Mar 2, 2012, 4:55 PM EST (21:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2012, 5:45 PM EST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Heard County, GA, Troup County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:58 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 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -255 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 788 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
989
WWUS82 KFFC 022155
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
455 PM EST FRI MAR 2 2012
GAZ052-066-067-022245-
455 PM EST FRI MAR 2 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PEA SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN TROUP...MERIWETHER AND HEARD COUNTIES UNTIL 545 PM EST...
AT 453 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 12 MILES WEST OF STATE LINE PARK TO STATE
LINE PARK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH ARE LIKELY AS THESE STORMS MOVE ACROSS TROUP...
MERIWETHER AND HEARD COUNTIES THROUGH 545 PM EST. SOME LOCATIONS IN
THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE STATE LINE PARK...PIEDMONT
HEIGHTS...ABBOTTSFORD...LAGRANGE...WARES CROSSROADS...WARESVILLE...
TEXAS...HILLCREST...GLENN...LOUISE...FRANKLIN...HARRISONVILLE...SAINT
MARKS...HOGANSVILLE AND LONE OAK.
&&
LAT...LON 3331 8514 3322 8495 3320 8487 3319 8486
3320 8485 3315 8465 3296 8521 3305 8523
3323 8526
TIME...MOT...LOC 2156Z 246DEG 34KT 3307 8538 3305 8524
3303 8520
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 10:47 AM EST | Wind Advisory | FFC | Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Dawson, Fannin and 11 more | 16 hr |
| Mar 2, 10:55 AM EST | Flash Flood Watch | FFC | Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Dade, Fannin and 10 more | 19 hr |
| Mar 2, 12:15 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade | 30 min |
| Mar 2, 12:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade | 24 min |
| Mar 2, 6:10 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa | 50 min |
| Mar 2, 6:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker | 47 min |
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.