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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 6, 2012Muscogee County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 6, 2012, 11:52 PM EDT for Muscogee County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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 6, 2012, 11:52 PM EDT (03:52 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 2012, 12:30 AM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA

County Muscogee County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 89 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2012-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 366 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2012-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
366 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2130 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
93 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.

238 
WWUS82 KFFC 070352
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1152 PM EDT FRI JUL 6 2012

GAZ066-078-089-070430-
1152 PM EDT FRI JUL 6 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR 40 MPH WINDS IN TROUP...MUSCOGEE
AND HARRIS COUNTIES UNTIL 1230 AM EDT...

AT 1149 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM PIEDMONT HEIGHTS TO MIDLAND...MOVING
SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH.

THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS
TROUP...MUSCOGEE AND HARRIS COUNTIES THROUGH 1230 AM EDT. SOME
LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE UPATOI...MIDLAND...
WHITESVILLE-PINE LAKE...MOUNTAIN HILL...MULBERRY GROVE...CATAULA...
STATE LINE PARK...LONG CANE...ABBOTTSFORD...PIEDMONT HEIGHTS...
FORTSON...FLAT ROCK...WEST POINT...LAKE HARDING AND KENWOOD. HEAVY
DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 3307 8519 3276 8496 3254 8472 3245 8500
      3246 8501 3251 8501 3264 8511 3267 8510
      3269 8512 3273 8512 3275 8515 3278 8513
      3281 8517 3284 8516 3287 8519 3306 8523
TIME...MOT...LOC 0352Z 065DEG 10KT 3298 8521 3270 8504
          3252 8481

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 8:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCFloyd24 min
Jul 6, 8:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCPaulding23 min
Jul 6, 8:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCFloyd44 min
Jul 6, 8:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCoweta41 min
Jul 6, 8:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCobb25 min
Jul 6, 8:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCrawford41 min
Jul 6, 8:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCPolk34 min
Jul 6, 9:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMeriwether42 min
Jul 6, 9:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHeard52 min
Jul 6, 10:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCTroup39 min
Jul 6, 10:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHarris, Troup52 min
Jul 7, 2:09 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMacon36 min
Jul 7, 2:53 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMarion, Schley52 min
Jul 7, 5:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBarrow31 min
Jul 7, 5:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCGwinnett32 min
Jul 7, 6:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCherokee34 min
Jul 7, 6:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCFloyd24 min
Jul 7, 7:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCPickens30 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.