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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2012, 9:31 PM EDT for Spalding County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 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, 9:31 PM EDT (01:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2012, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Spalding County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:33 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 27 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.
340
WWUS82 KFFC 040131
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
931 PM EDT FRI AUG 3 2012
GAZ056>058-040215-
931 PM EDT FRI AUG 3 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR 40 MPH WINDS IN SPALDING...BUTTS
AND HENRY COUNTIES UNTIL 1015 PM EDT...
AT 930 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM SUNNY SIDE TO GRIFFIN...MOVING EAST AT 5
MPH.
THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS
SPALDING...BUTTS AND HENRY COUNTIES THROUGH 1015 PM EDT. SOME
LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE EXPERIMENT...HIGHLAND
MILLS...TOWALAGA...SUNNY SIDE...GRIFFIN...ATLANTA MOTOR SPEEDWAY...
HAMPTON...WALKER MILL...MCKIBBEN...LUELLA AND LOCUST GROVE. HEAVY
DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3347 8422 3334 8405 3323 8405 3321 8428
3331 8432 3337 8435
TIME...MOT...LOC 0131Z 264DEG 5KT 3336 8430 3332 8421
3321 8420
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 8:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene | 43 min |
| 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, 9:49 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 |
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.