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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Mar 22, 2012, 5:58 PM EDT for Douglas 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
- Mar 22, 2012, 5:58 PM EDT (21:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2012, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Douglas County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 882 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 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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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Mar 22, 3:25 PM EDT, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 22, 3:25 PM EDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
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</html>In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 22, 5:58 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
558 PM EDT THU MAR 22 2012
GAZ033-043-044-222230-
558 PM EDT THU MAR 22 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL IN
DOUGLAS AND FULTON COUNTIES UNTIL 630 PM EDT...
AT 555 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER CAMPBELLTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN ONE HALF TO ONE INCH PER HOUR CAN BE
EXPECTED ACROSS DOUGLAS AND FULTON COUNTIES...INCLUDING AREAS AROUND
CHATTAHOOCHEE HILL COUNTRY...BILL ARP...CAMPBELLTON...CHAPEL
HILL...DOUGLASVILLE...SANDTOWN...SWEETWATER CREEK STATE PARK AND
BANKHEAD. DRIVERS SHOULD USE CAUTION AS INTENSE RAINFALL WILL REDUCE
VISIBILITIES. PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS IS ALSO LIKELY. PEA SIZE
HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
&&
LAT...LON 3378 8473 3378 8460 3375 8458 3378 8453
3378 8443 3351 8468 3361 8486
TIME...MOT...LOC 2157Z 212DEG 21KT 3365 8471The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 7:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee, Stewart | 24 min |
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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.