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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2012, 3:37 PM EDT for Twiggs County, Wilkinson County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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, 3:37 PM EDT (19:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2012, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Twiggs County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:37 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 133 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.
050
WWUS82 KFFC 021937
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
337 PM EDT THU AUG 2 2012
GAZ083-084-022015-
337 PM EDT THU AUG 2 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR DIME SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN TWIGGS AND WILKINSON COUNTIES UNTIL 415 PM EDT...
AT 332 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM MCINTYRE TO MYRICKS MILL THE LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS WERE DRIFTING SLOWLY SOUTHWARD.
THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DIME SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS THEY MOVE
ACROSS TWIGGS AND WILKINSON COUNTIES THROUGH 415 PM EDT. SOME
LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE IVEY...GORDON...
MCINTYRE...TOOMSBORO...IRWINTON...RIPLEY...MYRICKS MILL...
FITZPATRICK...BULLARD...JEFFERSONVILLE AND MARION. HEAVY DOWNPOURS
WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3265 8324 3261 8351 3286 8348 3293 8336
3294 8328 3298 8321 3297 8317 3300 8316
3301 8313 3298 8312 3294 8307 3287 8304
3286 8300 3282 8297
TIME...MOT...LOC 1937Z 005DEG 2KT 3291 8317 3285 8325
3282 8338
$$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, 2:16 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, 3:55 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 |
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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.