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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 9, 2012Lumpkin County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 9, 2012, 4:02 PM EDT for Lumpkin County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 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 9, 2012, 4:02 PM EDT (20:02 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2012, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Lumpkin County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 147 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: 1537 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 787 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 1 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -32 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.

135 
WWUS82 KFFC 092002
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
402 PM EDT MON JUL 9 2012

GAZ006>008-014-015-092030-
402 PM EDT MON JUL 9 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR DIME SIZED HAIL AND 45 MPH WINDS
IN UNION...LUMPKIN...DAWSON...FANNIN AND GILMER COUNTIES UNTIL 430 PM
EDT...

AT 357 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER ROY...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DIME SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS
UNION...LUMPKIN...DAWSON...FANNIN AND GILMER COUNTIES THROUGH 430 PM
EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE CARTECAY...
ROY...PISGAH...MARION...AMICALOLA FALLS STATE PARK...CAMP MERRILL...
NIMBLEWILL...LEN FOOTE HIKE INN...GOOCH MOUNTAIN SHELTER...HAWK
MOUNTAIN SHELTER...GADDISTOWN...BLACK GAP SHELTER...STOVER CREEK
SHELTER AND SPRINGER MOUNTAIN SHELTER. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE
PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 3474 8402 3452 8406 3458 8441 3476 8439
TIME...MOT...LOC 2002Z 277DEG 9KT 3466 8429

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 8:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Towns	52 min
Jul 9, 2:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Murray	36 min
Jul 9, 4:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Henry, Rockdale	36 min
Jul 9, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb	44 min
Jul 9, 4:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jones	37 min
Jul 9, 5:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Newton, Rockdale	27 min
Jul 9, 5:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Oconee	40 min
Jul 9, 5:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Morgan	29 min
Jul 9, 5:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkinson	38 min
Jul 9, 5:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Twiggs	30 min
Jul 9, 5:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Walton	37 min
Jul 9, 5:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Greene	33 min
Jul 9, 6:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkinson	33 min
Jul 9, 6:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Oconee, Walton	32 min
Jul 9, 6:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Newton	26 min
Jul 9, 6:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Morgan, Oconee, Walton	53 min
Jul 9, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper, Morgan, Newton	49 min
Jul 9, 6:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Hancock, Taliaferro, Warren	29 min
Jul 9, 6:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hancock, Warren	40 min
Jul 9, 6:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Laurens	38 min
Jul 9, 6:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crisp	34 min
Jul 9, 6:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Sumter	33 min
Jul 9, 6:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Sumter, Webster	38 min
Jul 9, 7:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clarke	28 min
Jul 9, 7:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fulton	25 min
Jul 9, 7:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Warren	24 min
Jul 9, 7:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Madison	34 min
Jul 9, 7:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Hancock	31 min
Jul 9, 7:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hancock, Washington	25 min
Jul 9, 7:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fulton	28 min
Jul 9, 7:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Haralson	30 min
Jul 9, 7:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts	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.