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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2012, 1:15 PM EDT for Sumter County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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, 1:15 PM EDT (17:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2012, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Sumter County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:15 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 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS82 KFFC 021715
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
115 PM EDT THU AUG 2 2012
GAZ104>106-021745-
115 PM EDT THU AUG 2 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR DIME SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN SUMTER...CRISP AND DOOLY COUNTIES UNTIL 145 PM EDT...
AT 110 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER DRAYTON THE THUNDERSTORM WAS NEARLY
STATIONARY WITH A SLIGHT DRIFT TO THE WEST.
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
SUMTER...CRISP AND DOOLY COUNTIES THROUGH 145 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS
IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE DRAYTON...METHVINS...GEORGIA
VETERANS MEMORIAL STATE PARK...LAMAR...HUNTINGTON...COBB...LESLIE AND
DESOTO. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3191 8394 3191 8417 3214 8410 3213 8388
3188 8391 3188 8394
TIME...MOT...LOC 1715Z 031DEG 1KT 3202 8398
$$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, 12:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery, Treutlen | 50 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.