Alert archive / Georgia / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2012, 8:17 PM EDT for Greene County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 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 3, 2012, 8:17 PM EDT (00:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2012, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Greene County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:21 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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 1273 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1107 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
420
WWUS82 KFFC 040017
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
817 PM EDT FRI AUG 3 2012
GAZ050-040100-
817 PM EDT FRI AUG 3 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR DIME SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN GREENE COUNTY UNTIL 900 PM EDT...
AT 817 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER UNION POINT THE THUNDERSTORM WAS NEARLY
STATIONARY.
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
GREENE COUNTY THROUGH 900 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM INCLUDE UNION POINT...WOODVILLE AND JACKSONVILLE. HEAVY
DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3362 8299 3356 8310 3366 8315 3371 8308
3371 8306 3364 8297
TIME...MOT...LOC 0018Z 238DEG 1KT 3364 8308
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 8:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry | 28 min |
| Aug 3, 8:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hall | 44 min |
| Aug 3, 8:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pike | 50 min |
| Aug 3, 9:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 50 min |
| Aug 3, 9:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Spalding | 44 min |
| Aug 3, 9:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hall | 41 min |
| Aug 3, 10:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jefferson | 40 min |
| Aug 4, 12:34 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Putnam | 26 min |
| Aug 4, 1:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hancock, Putnam | 30 min |
| Aug 4, 2:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Floyd | 62 min |
| Aug 4, 3:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Polk | 49 min |
| Aug 4, 3:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Polk | 33 min |
| Aug 4, 5:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 43 min |
| Aug 4, 7:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Barrow, Jackson | 27 min |
| Aug 4, 7:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Douglas | 33 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.