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, 2:16 PM EDT for Toombs County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 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, 2:16 PM EDT (18:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2012, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Toombs County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 189 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.
335
WWUS82 KFFC 021816
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
216 PM EDT THU AUG 2 2012
GAZ086-112-113-021845-
216 PM EDT THU AUG 2 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PENNY SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN TOOMBS...MONTGOMERY AND EMANUEL COUNTIES UNTIL 245 PM EDT...
AT 212 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORMANTOWN TO MCNATT FALLS...MOVING EAST AT
5 MPH.
THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE PENNY SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS
TOOMBS...MONTGOMERY AND EMANUEL COUNTIES THROUGH 245 PM EDT. SOME
LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE NORMANTOWN...MCNATT
FALLS...VIDALIA...UVALDA...HIGGSTON...ALSTON...CENTER...OAK PARK...
ROCK SPRINGS...SOUTH THOMPSON...GRAYS LANDING...CEDAR CROSSING...
SANTA CLAUS AND LYONS. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON
ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3209 8220 3193 8229 3193 8237 3196 8244
3196 8248 3194 8250 3196 8254 3219 8249
3242 8235 3238 8223 3236 8224 3222 8220
3218 8218
TIME...MOT...LOC 1817Z 287DEG 6KT 3231 8234 3213 8239
3199 8246
$$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, 2:00 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, 2:29 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
Special Weather Statements in Georgia, 2012Every special weather statement in 2012
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.