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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Mar 31, 2012, 7:31 PM EDT for Whitfield County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 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 31, 2012, 7:31 PM EDT (23:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2012, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Whitfield County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 399 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 649 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
753
WWUS82 KFFC 312331
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
731 PM EDT SAT MAR 31 2012
GAZ002>004-011-012-010000-
731 PM EDT SAT MAR 31 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR FREQUENT LIGHTNING IN
WHITFIELD...WALKER...CATOOSA...CHATTOOGA AND GORDON COUNTIES UNTIL
800 PM EDT...
AT 728 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER WOOD STATION...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH ARE LIKELY AS THIS STORM MOVES ACROSS
WHITFIELD...WALKER...CATOOSA...CHATTOOGA AND GORDON COUNTIES THROUGH
800 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE WOOD
STATION...MILL CREEK...VILLANOW...TILTON...OOSTANAULA...CALHOUN...
AUDUBON...NICKELSVILLE...RESACA AND SUGAR VALLEY.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 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 3471 8489 3471 8494 3468 8489 3466 8490
3468 8491 3468 8494 3462 8490 3462 8472
3443 8501 3454 8508 3455 8506 3459 8507
3458 8512 3476 8525 3486 8513
TIME...MOT...LOC 2331Z 313DEG 25KT 3476 8513
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 9:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth | 36 min |
| Mar 31, 7:49 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee | 26 min |
| Mar 31, 7:51 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee | 24 min |
| Mar 31, 4:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Whitfield | 28 min |
| Mar 31, 5:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Whitfield | 31 min |
| Mar 31, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Whitfield | 46 min |
| Mar 31, 5:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Floyd | 27 min |
| Mar 31, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon, Murray | 37 min |
| Mar 31, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon, Murray, Whitfield | 48 min |
| Mar 31, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 49 min |
| Mar 31, 7:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hall | 28 min |
| Mar 31, 7:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hall | 34 min |
| Mar 31, 7:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee | 29 min |
| Mar 31, 7:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jackson | 36 min |
| Mar 31, 7:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gordon | 34 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.