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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 26, 2012Wilkinson County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 26, 2012, 7:13 PM EDT for Wilkinson County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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 26, 2012, 7:13 PM EDT (23:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2012, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Wilkinson County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 120 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: 1583 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1146 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -45 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.

567 
WWUS82 KFFC 262313
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
713 PM EDT THU JUL 26 2012

GAZ073-083-084-262345-
713 PM EDT THU JUL 26 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PEA SIZED HAIL AND 45 MPH WINDS
IN TWIGGS...WILKINSON AND BALDWIN COUNTIES UNTIL 745 PM EDT...

AT 706 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER GORDON...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH.

THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE PEA SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS
TWIGGS...WILKINSON AND BALDWIN COUNTIES THROUGH 745 PM EDT. SOME
LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE MYRICKS MILL...GORDON...
IVEY...PANCRAS AND COOPERS. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF
WATER ON ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 3274 8328 3281 8347 3288 8345 3293 8336
      3303 8339 3306 8338 3297 8313
TIME...MOT...LOC 2313Z 202DEG 5KT 3285 8334

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 4:14 AM EDT	Heat Advisory	FFC	Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Chattahoochee, Clarke, Crawford and 43 more	17 hr
Jul 26, 4:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Treutlen	27 min
Jul 26, 4:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Webster	35 min
Jul 26, 5:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crawford	25 min
Jul 26, 6:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Muscogee	29 min
Jul 26, 6:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Talbot	28 min
Jul 26, 6:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Talbot, Taylor	34 min
Jul 26, 6:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Meriwether	33 min
Jul 26, 6:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee	30 min
Jul 26, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Taylor	52 min
Jul 26, 6:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Stewart	37 min
Jul 26, 6:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Upson	34 min
Jul 26, 7:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb	33 min
Jul 26, 7:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Monroe	31 min
Jul 26, 7:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Stewart	26 min
Jul 26, 7:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Marion	29 min
Jul 26, 7:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb	37 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.