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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Apr 5, 2012, 3:08 PM EDT for Gilmer County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 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 5, 2012, 3:08 PM EDT (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2012, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Gilmer County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:12 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -139 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 871 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
017
WWUS82 KFFC 051908
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
308 PM EDT THU APR 5 2012
GAZ005-007-051945-
308 PM EDT THU APR 5 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PEA SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN MURRAY AND GILMER COUNTIES UNTIL 345 PM EDT...
AT 306 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER TAILS CREEK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE PEA SIZED HAIL...OCCASIONAL
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS
MURRAY AND GILMER COUNTIES THROUGH 345 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE
PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE CARTERS...RAMHURST...TAILS CREEK...EAST
ELLIJAY...ELLIJAY...MOUNTAINTOWN AND CHERRY LOG. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL
CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3473 8432 3458 8465 3460 8472 3461 8473
3460 8472 3462 8471 3463 8473 3461 8475
3461 8477 3465 8480 3486 8457 3485 8445
TIME...MOT...LOC 1908Z 225DEG 19KT 3470 8464
$$
16The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 8:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 23 min |
| Apr 5, 3:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Houston | 56 min |
| Apr 5, 3:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb | 46 min |
| Apr 5, 3:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bleckley | 49 min |
| Apr 5, 3:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Walker | 33 min |
| Apr 5, 4:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson, Laurens, Washington, Wilkinson | 63 min |
| Apr 5, 4:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Stewart | 61 min |
| Apr 5, 4:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 25 min |
| Apr 5, 4:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Sumter, Webster | 65 min |
| Apr 5, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Jefferson, Johnson, Laurens, Treutlen, Washington and 1 more | 54 min |
| Apr 5, 5:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Sumter | 61 min |
| Apr 5, 6:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp | 64 min |
| Apr 5, 7:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa | 27 min |
| Apr 5, 7:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade | 42 min |
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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.