Alert archive / Georgia / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2012, 2:26 PM EDT for Wilkes County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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 6, 2012, 2:26 PM EDT (18:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2012, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Wilkes County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS82 KFFC 061826
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
226 PM EDT MON AUG 6 2012
GAZ039-061900-
226 PM EDT MON AUG 6 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HEAVY RAIN IN WILKES COUNTY UNTIL
300 PM EDT...
AT 224 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER ROCKY CREEK FIRE DEPT....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
WILKES COUNTY...INCLUDING AREAS AROUND LUNDBERG...ROCKY CREEK FIRE
DEPT....FICKLIN...AONIA...WASHINGTON...FLORAL HILL AND METASVILLE.
ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS
AND STREAMS ARE SUBJECT TO MINOR FLOODING.
&&
LAT...LON 3364 8255 3363 8260 3360 8264 3361 8265
3360 8268 3362 8269 3361 8271 3362 8275
3366 8282 3388 8272 3383 8258 3370 8251
TIME...MOT...LOC 1826Z 202DEG 6KT 3367 8266
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 3:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkes | 30 min |
| Aug 6, 3:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Treutlen | 32 min |
| Aug 6, 4:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Treutlen | 60 min |
| Aug 6, 4:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Houston, Peach | 24 min |
| Aug 6, 4:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 31 min |
| Aug 6, 5:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jones | 27 min |
| Aug 6, 6:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin, Wilkinson | 30 min |
| Aug 6, 6:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkinson | 57 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Georgia, 2012Every special weather statement in 2012
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.