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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 22, 2012, 9:49 PM EDT for Sumter County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 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, 9:49 PM EDT (01:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2012, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Sumter County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 165 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.
960
WWUS82 KFFC 230149
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
949 PM EDT SUN JUL 22 2012
GAZ104>106-230215-
949 PM EDT SUN JUL 22 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR 50 MPH WINDS IN SUMTER...CRISP
AND DOOLY COUNTIES UNTIL 1015 PM EDT...
AT 946 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR GEORGIA VETERANS MEMORIAL STATE PARK...
MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH.
THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DIME SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS
SUMTER...CRISP AND DOOLY COUNTIES THROUGH 1015 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS
IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE GEORGIA VETERANS MEMORIAL STATE
PARK...COBB...DESOTO...FLINT RIVER WMA...DRAYTON AND LAMAR. HEAVY
DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.
CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO...WEATHER.GOV OR OTHER MEDIA
OUTLETS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON THESE STORMS.
&&
LAT...LON 3189 8394 3191 8394 3191 8401 3204 8416
3218 8395 3197 8380 3188 8393
TIME...MOT...LOC 0148Z 142DEG 5KT 3199 8395
$$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, 8:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Houston | 35 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, 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.