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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 9, 2012Montgomery County, Wheeler County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at May 9, 2012, 1:55 PM EDT for Montgomery County, Wheeler County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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: May 9, 2012, 1:55 PM EDT (17:55 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2012, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

Counties Montgomery County, GA, Wheeler County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 198 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 420 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 904 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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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 May 9, 10:26 AM EDT, 3 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 9, 10:26 AM EDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 9, 10:10 AM EDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 9, 12:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1240 PM EDT WED MAY 9 2012

GAZ086-097-098-091715-
1240 PM EDT WED MAY 9 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY
RAIN IN TREUTLEN...LAURENS AND EMANUEL COUNTIES UNTIL 115 PM EDT...

AT 1239 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM MODOC TO MINTER...MOVING EAST AT 25 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 TREUTLEN...LAURENS AND EMANUEL COUNTIES THROUGH 115 PM EDT.
SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE MINTER...
DELLWOOD...MODOC...ADRIAN...ROCKLEDGE...NORRISTOWN JUNCTION...
ORIANNA...SWAINSBORO...BLACKVILLE...CANOOCHEE...NORRISTOWN...COVENA
AND GARFIELD. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON
ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 3261 8210 3248 8239 3241 8298 3259 8267
      3252 8267 3253 8257 3258 8260 3264 8251
      3265 8247 3268 8249 3271 8239 3273 8210
      3267 8207
TIME...MOT...LOC 1640Z 262DEG 21KT 3265 8231 3257 8250
          3246 8274

Special weather statement, May 9, 1:55 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
155 PM EDT WED MAY 9 2012

GAZ098-110>113-091830-
155 PM EDT WED MAY 9 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY
RAIN IN WHEELER...TREUTLEN...TOOMBS...TELFAIR AND MONTGOMERY
COUNTIES UNTIL 230 PM EDT...

AT 151 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM TARRYTOWN TO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TOWNS...
MOVING EAST AT 25 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 WHEELER...TREUTLEN...TOOMBS...TELFAIR AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES
THROUGH 230 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS
INCLUDE TARRYTOWN...LANDSBURG...ALAMO...SCOTLAND...BARNHILL...
LOTHAIR...SOPERTON...ZAIDEE...GLENWOOD...TOWNS...SPRING HILL...
KIBBEE...JORDAN...MOUNT VERNON AND AILEY. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE
PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 3186 8295 3218 8281 3241 8266 3240 8240
      3236 8241 3232 8236 3229 8235 3230 8226
      3218 8238 3194 8249 3195 8256 3192 8261
      3192 8267 3186 8275
TIME...MOT...LOC 1756Z 270DEG 20KT 3232 8256 3218 8270
          3195 8280

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 3:52 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Pike	38 min
May 9, 12:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel	35 min
May 9, 3:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crisp	29 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Georgia, 2012 Every special weather statement in 2012

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.