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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2012, 5:02 PM EDT for Haralson County, Polk 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 4, 2012, 5:02 PM EDT (21:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2012, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Haralson County, GA, Polk County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 975 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 720 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
916
WWUS82 KFFC 042102
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
502 PM EDT SAT AUG 4 2012
GAZ030-041-042145-
502 PM EDT SAT AUG 4 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HEAVY RAIN IN POLK AND HARALSON
COUNTIES UNTIL 545 PM EDT...
AT 457 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER FELTON...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH.
RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS
AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES ACROSS
POLK AND HARALSON COUNTIES...INCLUDING AREAS AROUND BUCHANAN...
FELTON...ANTIOCH...ESOM HILL...FISH CREEK...ETNA AND CEDARTOWN.
ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS
AND STREAMS ARE SUBJECT TO MINOR FLOODING.
&&
LAT...LON 3408 8526 3410 8525 3410 8516 3408 8516
3408 8512 3379 8515 3379 8537 3386 8539
3408 8542
TIME...MOT...LOC 2101Z 179DEG 5KT 3395 8528
$$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, 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, 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.