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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at May 31, 2012, 9:13 PM EDT for Wilkinson 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 31, 2012, 9:13 PM EDT (01:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2012, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Wilkinson County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:13 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 139 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.
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WWUS82 KFFC 010113
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
913 PM EDT THU MAY 31 2012
GAZ061-074-084-010145-
913 PM EDT THU MAY 31 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR DIME SIZED HAIL AND 50 MPH WINDS
IN WASHINGTON...WILKINSON AND HANCOCK COUNTIES UNTIL 945 PM EDT...
AT 908 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTH OF TOOMSBORO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
35 MPH.
THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DIME SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS
WASHINGTON...WILKINSON AND HANCOCK COUNTIES THROUGH 945 PM EDT. SOME
LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE MCINTYRE...TOOMSBORO...
IRWINTON...OCONEE...HEBRON...DEEPSTEP...SANDERSVILLE...BEULAH...
LINTON AND WARTHEN. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON
ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3267 8306 3288 8329 3299 8321 3297 8317
3299 8318 3301 8315 3295 8307 3300 8305
3303 8307 3307 8304 3308 8305 3305 8310
3309 8312 3330 8294 3312 8268
TIME...MOT...LOC 0113Z 219DEG 31KT 3296 8307
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 8:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkinson | 36 min |
| 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, 9:36 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.