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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 1, 2012Jones County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 1, 2012, 4:21 PM EDT for Jones County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 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, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 2012, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Jones County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 26 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 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 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 113 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.

648 
WWUS82 KFFC 012021
SPSFFC

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

GAZ072-083-084-012045-
421 PM EDT SUN JUL 1 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NICKEL SIZED HAIL AND 50 MPH
WINDS IN TWIGGS...JONES AND WILKINSON COUNTIES UNTIL 445 PM EDT...

AT 416 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR JAMES...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.

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
TWIGGS...JONES AND WILKINSON COUNTIES THROUGH 445 PM EDT. SOME
LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE DRY BRANCH...MOUNTAIN
SPRINGS...POSTELL...GREENBERRY CROSSROADS...JAMES...HADDOCK...
GRISWOLDVILLE...GRAY...IVEY...GORDON AND MYRICKS MILL. 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 3278 8352 3282 8349 3288 8357 3287 8358
      3287 8359 3309 8351 3303 8338 3293 8336
      3295 8330 3294 8328 3296 8326 3295 8323
      3273 8328
TIME...MOT...LOC 2021Z 281DEG 3KT 3287 8342

$$

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, 4:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Washington	26 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, 4:22 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.