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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2012, 1:00 AM EDT for Hancock County, Putnam County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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 4, 2012, 1:00 AM EDT (05:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2012, 1:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Hancock County, GA, Putnam County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:00 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 120 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.
873
WWUS82 KFFC 040500
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
100 AM EDT SAT AUG 4 2012
GAZ050-060-061-040530-
100 AM EDT SAT AUG 4 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HEAVY RAIN IN PUTNAM...GREENE AND
HANCOCK COUNTIES UNTIL 130 AM EDT...
AT 1231 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR FLAT ROCK...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.
RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS
AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES ACROSS
PUTNAM...GREENE AND HANCOCK COUNTIES...INCLUDING AREAS AROUND FLAT
ROCK...SHOULDERBONE...WARFIELD...ROCKVILLE...OCONEE SPRINGS PARK...
EATONTON...LIBERTY...PLANT HARLEE BRANCH AND DEVEREUX.
ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS
AND STREAMS ARE SUBJECT TO MINOR FLOODING.
&&
LAT...LON 3315 8312 3319 8325 3319 8329 3317 8332
3317 8337 3319 8340 3336 8342 3343 8308
3326 8285
TIME...MOT...LOC 0459Z 349DEG 6KT 3323 8328
$$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, 9:31 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, 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.