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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at May 31, 2012, 8:39 PM EDT for Wilkinson County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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 31, 2012, 8:39 PM EDT (00:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2012, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Wilkinson County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1904 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
572
WWUS82 KFFC 010039
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
839 PM EDT THU MAY 31 2012
GAZ074-083>085-097-010115-
839 PM EDT THU MAY 31 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PEA SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN WASHINGTON...TWIGGS...LAURENS...JOHNSON AND WILKINSON COUNTIES
UNTIL 915 PM EDT...
AT 835 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER MONTROSE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE PEA SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS
WASHINGTON...TWIGGS...LAURENS...JOHNSON AND WILKINSON COUNTIES
THROUGH 915 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE
MONTROSE...DUDLEY...ALLENTOWN...DANVILLE...NICKLESVILLE...CHAPPELLS
MILL...TUCKERS CROSSROAD AND TOOMSBORO. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE
PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3252 8299 3244 8313 3249 8318 3258 8322
3257 8326 3265 8334 3290 8305 3269 8279
TIME...MOT...LOC 0039Z 224DEG 14KT 3257 8313
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 8:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene, Taliaferro | 32 min |
| May 31, 8:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Hancock, Putnam, Taliaferro | 38 min |
| May 31, 9:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin | 44 min |
| May 31, 9:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock, Jones, Putnam | 48 min |
| May 31, 9:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkinson | 32 min |
| May 31, 9:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hancock, Taliaferro, Warren | 39 min |
| May 31, 9:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Washington | 27 min |
| May 31, 10:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock, Greene, Hancock, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Warren and 1 more | 51 min |
| May 31, 10:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Barrow, Walton | 43 min |
| May 31, 10:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks, Hall, Jackson | 49 min |
| May 31, 10:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lumpkin, Towns, Union, White | 64 min |
| May 31, 11:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lumpkin, Towns, Union, White | 44 min |
| May 31, 11:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, Towns, Union, White | 36 min |
| Jun 1, 3:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel, Treutlen | 44 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.