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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 1, 2012Washington County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 1, 2012, 4:04 PM EDT for Washington County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 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: Jul 1, 2012, 4:04 PM EDT (20:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 2012, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Washington County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:07 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 2785 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -200 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1830 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 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.

533 
WWUS82 KFFC 012004
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
404 PM EDT SUN JUL 1 2012

GAZ074-012030-
404 PM EDT SUN JUL 1 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NICKEL SIZED HAIL AND 50 MPH
WINDS IN WASHINGTON COUNTY UNTIL 430 PM EDT...

AT 402 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
NEARLY STATIONARY STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR HAMBURG STATE PARK.

THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE NICKEL SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS
WASHINGTON COUNTY THROUGH 430 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF
THIS STORM INCLUDE DEEPSTEP...DOWNS...HAMBURG STATE PARK AND WARTHEN.
HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.

CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO...WEATHER.GOV OR OTHER MEDIA
OUTLETS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON THESE STORMS.

&&

LAT...LON 3304 8261 3295 8307 3299 8305 3303 8307
      3307 8304 3308 8305 3308 8301 3314 8289
      3320 8285 3324 8275 3318 8274 3313 8266
TIME...MOT...LOC 2004Z 263DEG 2KT 3317 8284

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 1, 3:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Washington	25 min
Jul 1, 3:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin	32 min
Jul 1, 3:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Glascock	30 min
Jul 1, 3:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin	38 min
Jul 1, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Washington	30 min
Jul 1, 3:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Hancock	36 min
Jul 1, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Heard	32 min
Jul 1, 3:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hancock	40 min
Jul 1, 3:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin	33 min
Jul 1, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris	31 min
Jul 1, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Warren	39 min
Jul 1, 4:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hancock, Warren	46 min
Jul 1, 4:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jones	24 min
Jul 1, 4:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Polk	23 min
Jul 1, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Hancock, Taliaferro, Warren	50 min
Jul 1, 4:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Heard	28 min
Jul 1, 4:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin	37 min
Jul 1, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Putnam	34 min
Jul 1, 4:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Taliaferro, Warren	46 min
Jul 1, 4:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Morgan	25 min
Jul 1, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkes	32 min
Jul 1, 5:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris	37 min
Jul 1, 5:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Putnam	34 min
Jul 1, 5:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jones	31 min
Jul 1, 5:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb, Houston	25 min
Jul 1, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Putnam	35 min
Jul 1, 5:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dooly	33 min
Jul 1, 5:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkes	32 min
Jul 1, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Marion	29 min
Jul 1, 5:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Crawford, Houston, Peach	33 min
Jul 1, 5:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Talbot	31 min
Jul 1, 5:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Troup	42 min
Jul 1, 5:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Henry, Newton	27 min
Jul 1, 5:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper, Jones, Monroe	24 min
Jul 1, 5:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Henry, Spalding	51 min
Jul 1, 6:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Spalding	27 min
Jul 1, 6:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Morgan, Putnam	28 min
Jul 1, 6:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Monroe	35 min
Jul 1, 6:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crawford	34 min
Jul 1, 6:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Peach	24 min
Jul 1, 7:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts	23 min
Jul 1, 7:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Henry	29 min
Jul 1, 7:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Lamar	30 min
Jul 1, 7:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dodge, Laurens	25 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.