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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 4, 2012Catoosa County, Dade County, Walker County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 4, 2012, 1:54 PM EDT for Catoosa County, Dade County, Walker 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: Jul 4, 2012, 1:54 PM EDT (17:54 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 2012, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

Counties Catoosa County, GA, Dade County, GA, Walker County, GA

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 178 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: 278 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -166 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1036 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 33 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.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Atlanta, GA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jul 4, 1:50 PM EDT, 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 1:50 PM EDT, 4 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
150 PM EDT WED JUL 4 2012

.UPDATE...
CURRENT FORECAST CONTINUES TO LOOK GOOD...NO CHANGES AND NO MORNING
UPDATE PLANNED AT THIS TIME. 12Z FFC SOUNDING MODIFIED FOR MID-UPPER
90 DEGREE SURFACE TEMPERATURE SHOWS MODERATE WARMING ABOVE 600MB WITH
SLIGHT COOLING BELOW YIELDING NOTICEABLY LESS INSTABILITY FOR THIS
AFTERNOON. STILL...ENOUGH INSTABILITY IS GENERATED AND NO CAPPING
INVERSION IS EVIDENT...SO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL EXPECTED
LATER THIS AFTERNOON...WITH ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE.

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 738 AM EDT WED JUL 4 2012/

PREV DISCUSSION...

SHORT TERM /TODAY THROUGH THURSDAY/...
/ISSUED 319 AM EDT WED JUL 4 2012/
AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION EXPECTED EACH DAY IN THE SHORT
TERM. CWA REMAINS ON THE EASTERN EDGE OF UPPER LEVEL RIDGE THAT IS
CENTERED OVER THE MIDWEST AND WITH BEING ON THE EASTERN EDGE ITS
JUST NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO SUPPRESS CONVECTION. SHORTWAVE IS LOCATED
ACROSS THE EASTERN TENNESSEE VALLEY AND WILL PUSH INTO THE CAROLINAS
TODAY. ALTHOUGH THE BULK OF THE IMPACTS WILL LIKELY BE ACROSS THE
CAROLINAS...WITH THE PROXIMITY OF THE SHORTWAVE AND SFC TROUGH
ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA EXPECT DIURNALLY DRIVEN THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SIMILAR TO YESTERDAY...HIRES MODELS ARE
PICKING UP ON AFTERNOON ACTIVITY BUT MAYBE SLIGHTLY MORE SCATTERED
THAN YESTERDAY. MID RANGE CHANCE POPS ACROSS MUCH OF THE CWA TODAY
AND EVEN THOUGH POPS TURNED OUT TO BE HIGHER YESTERDAY...BASED OFF
OF THE LACK OF STORMS ON MONDAY AFTER A BUSY DAY ON SUNDAY...JUST
COULDNT GO ABOVE THESE CHANCE POPS. STARTING TO SOUND LIKE A BROKEN
RECORD...BUT PLENTY OF INSTABILITY THIS AFTERNOON WITH MUCAPE
VALUES OF 2000-3000 J/KG AND SPC HAS THE CWA IN 5 PERCENT RISK FOR
HAIL AND WIND. ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS WILL ONCE AGAIN BE POSSIBLE.
WITH EVENING ACTIVITIES PLANNED FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY AND
ADDITIONAL PEOPLE OUTSIDE...FOLKS SHOULD STILL MAKE SURE THEY ARE
TUNED TO THE WEATHER GIVEN THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING. EVEN WITH SHORTWAVE SHIFTING OFF THE CAROLINA COAST BY
THURSDAY...WE WILL REMAIN ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE RIDGE THAT HAS NOT
BEEN STRONG ENOUGH TO SUPPRESS CONVECTION. IT APPEARS TO BE A
SIMILAR STORY IN TERMS OF CONVECTION POTENTIAL FOR THURSDAY.

OVERALL TEMPS YESTERDAY WERE ON THE WARMER SIDE OF GUIDANCE.
CONTINUED THIS TREND TODAY WITH MAX TEMPS...WHILE OVERNIGHT LOWS ARE
CLOSE TO A MAV/MET BLEND. ALTHOUGH CONDITIONS REMAIN BELOW HEAT
ADVISORY CRITERIA...WITH MID TO UPPER 90S EXPECTED ACROSS THE
CWA...ITS STILL IMPORTANT TO FOLLOW THE HEAT SAFETY RULES.

11

LONG TERM /THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY/...
/ISSUED 319 AM EDT WED JUL 4 2012/
THE MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT IN THE EXTENDED PERIODS.  THE UPPER
LEVEL RIDGING SHIFTS WEST OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS THROUGH THE
WEEKEND.  SEVERAL WEAK IMPULSES TRAVERSE THE SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE
UPPER FLOW...PROVIDING FOCUS FOR MAINLY DIURNALLY DRIVEN
CONVECTION.  A BROAD LONGWAVE TROUGH SETS UP OVER THE EASTERN U.S.
BY EARLY NEXT WEEK THROUGH THE END OF THE EXTENDED PERIOD.  AT THE
SFC...WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARY REMAINS IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE
FORECAST AREA...EVENTUALLY SAGGING SOUTH AS A BACKDOOR COLD FRONT
SUN NIGHT...BECOMING STATIONARY ACROSS THE CENTRAL OR SOUTHERN GA
THROUGH TUE.  WITH GOOD MOISTURE TO TAP INTO...PRECIPITABLE WATER
REMAINS NEAR 2 INCHES...AND PLENTY OF INSTABILITY...SURFACE CAPES
GREATER THAN 1000 EACH AFTERNOON WILL CONTINUE CHANCE OF MAINLY
AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION EACH DAY. DAYTIME TEMPERATURES WILL
CONTINUE 5 DEGREES OR SO ABOVE NORMAL WITH NEAR NORMAL LOWS.

ATWELL

AVIATION...
18Z UPDATE...
VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OUTSIDE OF CONVECTION THROUGH 08Z.
ISOLATED TO SCATTERED AREAS OF MVFR VISIBILITIES ARE EXPECTED
BETWEEN 08Z AND 14Z...BUT ONLY TAF SITES I EXPECT TO BE IMPACTED
WOULD BE KAHN AND KMCN. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED CONVECTION ALREADY
DEVELOPING IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA. THIS TREND SHOULD CONTINUE WITH
ISOLATED TO SCATTERED CONVECTION SPREADING SOUTH AND EAST THROUGH
02Z...TAPERING OFF QUICKLY AFTER 02Z. WINDS WILL REMAIN WEST BETWEEN
5 AND 10KT THROUGH 00Z...THEN DIMINISH TO 5 KT OR LESS.

//ATL CONFIDENCE...18Z UPDATE...
HIGH ALL ELEMENTS EXCEPT MEDIUM CONFIDENCE AT BEST CONCERNING
CHANCES FOR THUNDER LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING.

20

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
ATHENS          98  71  99  71 /  40  40  40  20
ATLANTA         95  75  95  75 /  40  40  40  20
BLAIRSVILLE     90  68  91  66 /  40  40  40  20
CARTERSVILLE    97  68  97  70 /  40  40  40  20
COLUMBUS        95  74  96  74 /  40  40  40  20
GAINESVILLE     94  73  96  73 /  40  40  40  20
MACON           96  73  96  73 /  40  40  40  20
ROME            98  70  98  70 /  30  30  30  20
PEACHTREE CITY  95  69  96  69 /  40  40  40  20
VIDALIA         96  75  96  76 /  40  40  40  20

&&

.FFC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.
&&

SHORT TERM...20
LONG TERM....17
AVIATION...20

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 4, 5:43 AM EDT, 8 hours 11 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
543 AM EDT WED JUL 4 2012

GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086-
089>098-102>113-050945-
BALDWIN-BANKS-BARROW-BARTOW-BIBB-BLECKLEY-BUTTS-CARROLL-CATOOSA-
CHATTAHOOCHEE-CHATTOOGA-CHEROKEE-CLARKE-CLAYTON-COBB-COWETA-
CRAWFORD-CRISP-DADE-DAWSON-DEKALB-DODGE-DOOLY-DOUGLAS-EMANUEL-
FANNIN-FAYETTE-FLOYD-FORSYTH-GILMER-GLASCOCK-GORDON-GREENE-
GWINNETT-HALL-HANCOCK-HARALSON-HARRIS-HEARD-HENRY-HOUSTON-JACKSON-
JASPER-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-JONES-LAMAR-LAURENS-LUMPKIN-MACON-
MADISON-MARION-MERIWETHER-MONROE-MONTGOMERY-MORGAN-MURRAY-
MUSCOGEE-NEWTON-NORTH FULTON-OCONEE-OGLETHORPE-PAULDING-PEACH-
PICKENS-PIKE-POLK-PULASKI-PUTNAM-ROCKDALE-SCHLEY-SOUTH FULTON-
SPALDING-STEWART-SUMTER-TALBOT-TALIAFERRO-TAYLOR-TELFAIR-TOOMBS-
TOWNS-TREUTLEN-TROUP-TWIGGS-UNION-UPSON-WALKER-WALTON-WARREN-
WASHINGTON-WEBSTER-WHEELER-WHITE-WHITFIELD-WILCOX-WILKES-
WILKINSON-
543 AM EDT WED JUL 4 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...
ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS
NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA.

.SYNOPSIS...
WEAK IMPULSES IN THE UPPER LEVEL FLOW OF AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OVER
THE CENTRAL PLAINS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST
TODAY AS A WEAK TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE AT THE SURFACE REMAINS
STATIONARY ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL GEORGIA.

.PRIMARY HAZARDS...
THE PRIMARY HAZARDS FROM THE ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
QUARTER SIZED HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...LIGHTNING...AND BRIEF HEAVY
RAIN. THE BEST TIME FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL MID
AFTERNOON THROUGH EVENING.

.DISCUSSION...
A WEAK SURFACE TROUGH AND HIGH INSTABILITY WILL ACT AS A FOCUS FOR
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WITH ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS
POSSIBLE. CONTINUED COLD MID LEVEL TEMPERATURES AND JUST ENOUGH
FLOW ALOFT WILL ALLOW FOR LARGE HAIL IN THE STRONGER STORMS. IN
ADDITION...MOST STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG TO
SEVERE WIND GUSTS DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF ENHANCED DOWNDRAFT
PARAMETERS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...
A SERIES OF SHORTWAVES WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH THE REGION...
ENHANCING THE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL THURSDAY AFTERNOON. GENERALLY
SCATTERED COVERAGE IS EXPECTED FOR MOST AREAS THIS WEEKEND WITH
STORMS BECOMING FOCUSED IN THE VICINITY OF A SOUTHWARD SAGGING
SURFACE BOUNDARY MONDAY AND TUESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTERS ACTIVATION IS NOT REQUESTED BUT SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED
TO SUBMIT REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH THE WEB BY GOING TO
WEATHER.GOV/ATLANTA.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 4, 1:54 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
154 PM EDT WED JUL 4 2012

GAZ001>003-041830-
154 PM EDT WED JUL 4 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT
LIGHTNING IN WALKER...CATOOSA AND DADE COUNTIES UNTIL 230 PM EDT...

AT 149 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM GRAYSVILLE TO STEPHENSVILLE...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE PEA SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH AS THEY MOVE
ACROSS WALKER...CATOOSA AND DADE COUNTIES THROUGH 230 PM EDT. SOME
LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE INDIAN SPRINGS...
GRAYSVILLE...FORT OGLETHORPE...LAKEVIEW...CHATTANOOGA VALLEY...
FAIRVIEW...STEPHENSVILLE...NEW ENGLAND...TRENTON...BOYNTON...
CHICKAMAUGA...SALEM...BLUE SPRING...RINGGOLD AND CLOUDLAND CANYON
STATE PARK. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 3494 8499 3491 8502 3488 8501 3486 8506
      3482 8506 3482 8513 3472 8517 3471 8511
      3461 8541 3474 8557 3475 8557 3478 8558
      3486 8559 3491 8559 3495 8538 3499 8527
      3499 8504
TIME...MOT...LOC 1753Z 310DEG 21KT 3496 8511 3488 8529
          3484 8554

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 8:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Murray	36 min
Jul 3, 8:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dawson, Pickens	33 min
Jul 3, 8:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gilmer, Pickens	32 min
Jul 3, 11:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel	37 min
Jul 4, 2:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Walker, Whitfield	30 min
Jul 4, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Murray, Whitfield	29 min
Jul 4, 3:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon	37 min
Jul 4, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gordon, Murray, Whitfield	30 min
Jul 4, 3:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Polk	36 min
Jul 4, 4:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb	40 min
Jul 4, 4:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Haralson, Polk	34 min
Jul 4, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Haralson	47 min
Jul 4, 4:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Paulding	27 min
Jul 4, 5:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clayton	28 min
Jul 4, 5:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cobb	25 min
Jul 4, 5:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Fulton	48 min
Jul 4, 5:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Talbot	30 min
Jul 4, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Morgan	35 min
Jul 4, 5:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fayette	34 min
Jul 4, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta, Fayette	44 min
Jul 4, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clayton	33 min
Jul 4, 5:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	White	25 min
Jul 4, 5:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Henry, Spalding	38 min
Jul 4, 6:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Henry	26 min
Jul 4, 6:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pike, Spalding	49 min
Jul 4, 6:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	White	28 min
Jul 4, 6:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkes	26 min
Jul 4, 6:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Meriwether	38 min
Jul 4, 6:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Spalding	30 min
Jul 4, 6:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fayette	15 min
Jul 4, 6:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Morgan	37 min
Jul 4, 6:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether	47 min
Jul 4, 7:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Morgan	27 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.