Alert archive / Georgia / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2012, 2:00 PM EDT for Telfair County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 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, 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2012, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Telfair County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 3176 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 572 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
601
WWUS82 KFFC 021800
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
200 PM EDT THU AUG 2 2012
GAZ110-021845-
200 PM EDT THU AUG 2 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR DIME SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN TELFAIR COUNTY UNTIL 245 PM EDT...
AT 157 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER CHINA HILL...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 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
TELFAIR COUNTY THROUGH 245 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM INCLUDE WORKMORE...CHINA HILL...HORSE CREEK WMA AND
JACKSONVILLE. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON
ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3180 8309 3180 8314 3183 8316 3184 8316
3204 8294 3189 8271 3185 8276 3185 8277
3183 8279 3178 8286 3178 8299 3177 8301
TIME...MOT...LOC 1800Z 317DEG 4KT 3187 8301
$$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, 1:15 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, 2:02 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.