Alert archive / Georgia / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 22, 2012, 8:10 PM EDT for Houston County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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 22, 2012, 8:10 PM EDT (00:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2012, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Houston County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 139 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 432 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1895 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
771
WWUS82 KFFC 230010
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
810 PM EDT SUN JUL 22 2012
GAZ095-105-230045-
810 PM EDT SUN JUL 22 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PEA SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN DOOLY AND HOUSTON COUNTIES UNTIL 845 PM EDT...
AT 809 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR UNADILLA...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.
THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE PEA SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS
DOOLY AND HOUSTON COUNTIES THROUGH 845 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE
PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE PINEHURST...UNADILLA...ELKO...MOSS OAK...
GROVE PARK...CLINCHFIELD...GROVANIA AND HENDERSON. HEAVY DOWNPOURS
WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3229 8385 3235 8385 3238 8386 3239 8384
3241 8384 3247 8365 3231 8360 3230 8361
3225 8360 3225 8362 3223 8360 3216 8361
3211 8376
TIME...MOT...LOC 0011Z 160DEG 12KT 3223 8369
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 8:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Macon | 24 min |
| Jul 22, 8:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Macon | 36 min |
| Jul 22, 8:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taliaferro | 36 min |
| Jul 22, 8:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Houston | 24 min |
| Jul 22, 9:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge | 13 min |
| Jul 22, 9:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Sumter | 26 min |
| Jul 22, 10:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp | 29 min |
| Jul 23, 3:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb | 31 min |
| Jul 23, 6:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether | 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.