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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 2, 2012Montgomery County, Treutlen County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2012, 12:55 PM EDT for Montgomery County, Treutlen County, Georgia. It was in force for 50 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: Aug 2, 2012, 12:55 PM EDT (16:55 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2012, 1:45 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

Counties Montgomery County, GA, Treutlen County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:59 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, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 214 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: 2296 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1169 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

298 
WWUS82 KFFC 021655
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1255 PM EDT THU AUG 2 2012

GAZ097-098-111-112-021745-
1255 PM EDT THU AUG 2 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR DIME SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN WHEELER...TREUTLEN...MONTGOMERY AND LAURENS COUNTIES UNTIL 145 PM
EDT...

AT 1254 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER BARNHILL...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DIME SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS
WHEELER...TREUTLEN...MONTGOMERY AND LAURENS COUNTIES THROUGH 145 PM
EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE ORLAND...
ROCKLEDGE...LANDSBURG...BARNHILL...LOTHAIR...GLENWOOD...SOPERTON...
FIVE POINTS...KIBBEE...TARRYTOWN...AILEY...ZAIDEE AND MOUNT VERNON.
HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 3246 8242 3209 8250 3216 8279 3247 8274
TIME...MOT...LOC 1655Z 279DEG 7KT 3230 8270

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 1, 8:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crisp	37 min
Aug 1, 8:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fannin	44 min
Aug 1, 8:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Murray	44 min
Aug 1, 9:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Murray, Whitfield	41 min
Aug 1, 9:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fannin	49 min
Aug 1, 9:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Whitfield	57 min
Aug 1, 10:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dade	60 min
Aug 1, 10:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Dade, Walker, Whitfield	52 min
Aug 1, 11:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow	49 min
Aug 1, 11:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattooga	39 min
Aug 2, 12:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crisp, Dooly	31 min
Aug 2, 12:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dodge	26 min
Aug 2, 1:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Sumter	30 min
Aug 2, 1:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jefferson	48 min
Aug 2, 1:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Houston	47 min
Aug 2, 1:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilcox	46 min
Aug 2, 2:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Telfair	45 min
Aug 2, 2:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wheeler	43 min
Aug 2, 2:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge, Wilcox	41 min
Aug 2, 2:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jenkins	49 min
Aug 2, 2:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Toombs	29 min
Aug 2, 2:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Talbot	46 min
Aug 2, 2:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Laurens, Telfair, Toombs, Wheeler	51 min
Aug 2, 2:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Johnson	51 min
Aug 2, 3:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Jefferson, Johnson, Washington	43 min
Aug 2, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Macon, Taylor	27 min
Aug 2, 3:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon, Schley, Taylor	39 min
Aug 2, 3:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Twiggs, Wilkinson	38 min
Aug 2, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Laurens	50 min
Aug 2, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	16 min
Aug 2, 4:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion, Schley	24 min
Aug 2, 4:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Webster	35 min
Aug 2, 5:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Marion, Stewart	38 min
Aug 2, 5:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Spalding	43 min
Aug 2, 6:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fulton	32 min
Aug 2, 6:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Lamar, Spalding	42 min
Aug 2, 6:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fulton	37 min
Aug 2, 7:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	DeKalb	49 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.