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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Apr 3, 2012, 9:49 PM EDT for Barrow County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 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
- Apr 3, 2012, 9:49 PM EDT (01:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2012, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Barrow County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:50 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, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 2484 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 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 040149
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
949 PM EDT TUE APR 3 2012
GAZ025-027-034>036-040215-
949 PM EDT TUE APR 3 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR FREQUENT LIGHTNING IN MADISON...
BARROW...CLARKE...GWINNETT AND JACKSON COUNTIES UNTIL 1015 PM EDT...
AT 945 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM CENTER TO DACULA...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE PEA SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH AS THEY MOVE
ACROSS MADISON...BARROW...CLARKE...GWINNETT AND JACKSON COUNTIES
THROUGH 1015 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS
INCLUDE COUNTY LINE...HOG MOUNTAIN...DACULA...ARCADE...NICHOLSON...
JEFFERSON...SANFORD...AUBURN...NEESE...CARL...CENTER...FORT YARGO
STATE PARK...WINDER...STATHAM AND RUSSELL. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE
PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3408 8301 3397 8347 3395 8375 3399 8411
3409 8381 3415 8341
TIME...MOT...LOC 0149Z 270DEG 13KT 3407 8338 3406 8369
3401 8389
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 8:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clarke | 27 min |
| Apr 3, 8:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 25 min |
| Apr 3, 8:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb, Jones | 38 min |
| Apr 3, 8:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Oglethorpe | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 9:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Warren | 36 min |
| Apr 3, 9:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkes | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 10:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Barrow | 60 min |
| Apr 4, 3:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taliaferro | 36 min |
| Apr 4, 6:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 26 min |
| Apr 4, 7:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Douglas | 25 min |
| Apr 4, 7:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 46 min |
| Apr 4, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton | 38 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.