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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 5, 2012Schley County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 5, 2012, 3:21 PM EDT for Schley 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 5, 2012, 3:21 PM EDT (19:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2012, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Schley County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:22 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 128 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: 1009 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1299 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 5 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.

542 
WWUS82 KFFC 051921
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
321 PM EDT THU JUL 5 2012

GAZ080-092-093-104>106-051945-
321 PM EDT THU JUL 5 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR 40 MPH WINDS IN SUMTER...
SCHLEY...MACON...TAYLOR...CRISP AND DOOLY COUNTIES UNTIL 345 PM
EDT...

AT 319 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM CONCORD TO DRAYTON...MOVING SOUTH AT 10
MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH ARE LIKELY AS THESE STORMS MOVE ACROSS SUMTER...
SCHLEY...MACON...TAYLOR...CRISP AND DOOLY COUNTIES THROUGH 345 PM
EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE FLINT RIVER
WMA...LILLY...DOOLING...BYROMVILLE...CLEARVIEW...FOUNTAINVILLE...
BARTLETT...IDEAL...MONTEZUMA...OGLETHORPE...RUPERT...CHARING...
CONCORD...MURRAYS CROSSROADS AND DRAYTON.

&&

LAT...LON 3251 8437 3240 8415 3218 8382 3191 8386
      3208 8418 3221 8439
TIME...MOT...LOC 1922Z 355DEG 8KT 3234 8433 3229 8420
          3207 8392

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 2:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Towns	37 min
Jul 5, 2:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dawson	22 min
Jul 5, 3:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dooly, Marion, Schley, Sumter	29 min
Jul 5, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris	31 min
Jul 5, 4:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion, Schley, Taylor	40 min
Jul 5, 4:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Towns	26 min
Jul 5, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Webster	34 min
Jul 5, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Sumter, Webster	47 min
Jul 5, 4:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Muscogee	35 min
Jul 5, 5:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Towns	29 min
Jul 5, 5:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Marion	28 min
Jul 5, 5:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taylor	24 min
Jul 5, 5:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Muscogee	41 min
Jul 5, 5:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Webster	27 min
Jul 5, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Stewart	41 min
Jul 5, 5:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dodge	32 min
Jul 5, 6:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Dodge	41 min
Jul 5, 6:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Oglethorpe	23 min
Jul 5, 6:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Glascock, Jefferson	26 min
Jul 5, 6:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Troup	27 min
Jul 5, 7:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Floyd, Walker	26 min
Jul 5, 7:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether, Troup	31 min
Jul 5, 7:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Henry, Newton, Rockdale	28 min
Jul 5, 7:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Floyd	52 min
Jul 5, 7:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether, Troup	23 min
Jul 5, 7:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts	27 min
Jul 5, 7:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Coweta	25 min
Jul 5, 7:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Glascock, Warren, Washington	44 min
Jul 5, 7:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Jasper, Newton	25 min
Jul 5, 7:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fayette	34 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.