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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 5, 20124 counties in Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jun 5, 2012, 4:21 PM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 39 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: Jun 5, 2012, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2012, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

Counties Johnson County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Treutlen County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 197 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: 2120 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 477 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.1

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The text

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

214 
WWUS82 KFFC 052021
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
421 PM EDT TUE JUN 5 2012

GAZ085-086-097-098-111>113-052100-
421 PM EDT TUE JUN 5 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR 40 MPH WINDS IN WHEELER...
TREUTLEN...TOOMBS...MONTGOMERY...LAURENS...JOHNSON AND EMANUEL
COUNTIES UNTIL 500 PM EDT...

AT 416 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM TUCKERS CROSSROAD TO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
CEDAR GROVE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH ARE LIKELY AS THESE STORMS MOVE ACROSS
WHEELER...TREUTLEN...TOOMBS...MONTGOMERY...LAURENS...JOHNSON AND
EMANUEL COUNTIES THROUGH 500 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF
THESE STORMS INCLUDE TUCKERS CROSSROAD...EAST DUBLIN...DUBLIN...CEDAR
GROVE...DONOVAN...LOWERY...LOVETT...BREWTON...SPANN...WRIGHTSVILLE...
LANDSBURG...GLENWOOD...MINTER...BARNHILL AND ORLAND.

&&

LAT...LON 3218 8236 3214 8289 3219 8287 3220 8290
      3251 8297 3279 8285 3279 8277 3277 8276
      3279 8270 3278 8266 3281 8250 3276 8243
      3278 8240 3282 8241 3282 8232 3251 8232
TIME...MOT...LOC 2021Z 266DEG 31KT 3274 8278 3250 8289
          3218 8280

$$
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 5:06 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dade	24 min
Jun 5, 5:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dade, Walker	35 min
Jun 5, 5:57 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattooga, Dade, Walker	48 min
Jun 5, 6:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow, Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon, Polk, Walker	35 min
Jun 5, 7:51 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Haralson	24 min
Jun 5, 11:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb, Monroe	31 min
Jun 5, 11:50 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb, Twiggs	25 min
Jun 5, 11:56 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crawford	34 min
Jun 5, 12:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Bleckley, Dodge, Houston, Jones, Laurens and 2 more	39 min
Jun 5, 12:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Treutlen	35 min
Jun 5, 12:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris	27 min
Jun 5, 12:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Montgomery, Toombs, Treutlen, Wheeler	42 min
Jun 5, 12:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Marion	51 min
Jun 5, 12:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Dodge, Laurens, Telfair, Twiggs, Wilkinson	46 min
Jun 5, 12:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Dodge, Houston, Peach, Pulaski, Twiggs	25 min
Jun 5, 12:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge, Montgomery, Telfair, Toombs, Wheeler	46 min
Jun 5, 1:01 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Toombs	24 min
Jun 5, 1:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris, Meriwether, Talbot, Troup	43 min
Jun 5, 1:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge, Pulaski, Telfair, Wheeler, Wilcox	38 min
Jun 5, 1:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris, Heard, Meriwether, Talbot, Troup	46 min
Jun 5, 1:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crisp, Wilcox	42 min
Jun 5, 1:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dodge, Montgomery	31 min
Jun 5, 1:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Schley, Sumter, Webster	45 min
Jun 5, 1:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge, Laurens	52 min
Jun 5, 1:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taylor	34 min
Jun 5, 1:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crawford, Macon, Peach, Taylor	25 min
Jun 5, 1:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Carroll, Coweta, Heard, Meriwether	32 min
Jun 5, 2:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Telfair	28 min
Jun 5, 2:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Telfair	47 min
Jun 5, 2:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crawford, Houston, Macon, Peach, Taylor	44 min
Jun 5, 2:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dooly	35 min
Jun 5, 2:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Fayette, Meriwether, Pike and 1 more	32 min
Jun 5, 2:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly, Pulaski, Wilcox	49 min
Jun 5, 2:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Crawford, Houston, Peach, Twiggs	44 min
Jun 5, 2:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clayton, Fayette, Henry, Lamar, Pike, Spalding and 1 more	33 min
Jun 5, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bleckley, Twiggs, Wilkinson	52 min
Jun 5, 3:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wilcox	34 min
Jun 5, 3:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts, Clayton, Henry, Lamar, Monroe	31 min
Jun 5, 3:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bleckley, Laurens, Wilkinson	45 min
Jun 5, 3:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Telfair	23 min
Jun 5, 4:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jasper	25 min
Jun 5, 4:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Marion	24 min
Jun 5, 4:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel, Montgomery, Toombs, Treutlen	33 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.