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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at May 19, 2012, 8:28 PM EDT for Towns County, Union 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
- May 19, 2012, 8:28 PM EDT (00:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2012, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Towns County, GA, Union County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:29 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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 2989 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
611
WWUS82 KFFC 200028
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
828 PM EDT SAT MAY 19 2012
GAZ008-009-016-200100-
828 PM EDT SAT MAY 19 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR DIME SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN WHITE...UNION AND TOWNS COUNTIES UNTIL 900 PM EDT...
AT 827 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR BRASSTOWN BALD...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH.
WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH ARE LIKELY AS THIS STORM MOVES ACROSS WHITE...
UNION AND TOWNS COUNTIES THROUGH 900 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE
PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE PLUM ORCHARD GAP SHELTER...BLUE MOUNTAIN
SHELTER...TITUS...MACEDONIA...HIAWASSEE...MOUNTAIN SCENE...BRASSTOWN
BALD...YOUNG HARRIS...ALEXANDERS MILL...GUMLOG...TRACK ROCK...LOW GAP
SHELTER...BLAIRSVILLE...WHITLEY GAP SHELTER AND CAMP COLEMAN LAKE.
&&
LAT...LON 3495 8355 3494 8360 3492 8359 3488 8365
3482 8365 3463 8386 3472 8385 3474 8394
3464 8404 3466 8412 3465 8415 3473 8410
3480 8410 3481 8414 3489 8411 3495 8418
3499 8413 3499 8355
TIME...MOT...LOC 0029Z 043DEG 10KT 3484 8381
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 3:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Walker | 35 min |
| May 20, 5:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth, Gwinnett | 28 min |
| May 20, 5:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth | 29 min |
| May 20, 6:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 37 min |
| May 20, 6:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lumpkin | 36 min |
| May 20, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 22 min |
| May 20, 6:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb | 29 min |
| May 20, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton | 31 min |
| May 20, 7:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Union | 32 min |
| May 20, 7:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, Fayette | 24 min |
| May 20, 7:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 32 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.