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, 3:30 PM EDT for Wilkes 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 6, 2012, 3:30 PM EDT (19:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2012, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Wilkes County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:33 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 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 177 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.
665
WWUS82 KFFC 061930
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
330 PM EDT MON AUG 6 2012
GAZ039-062000-
330 PM EDT MON AUG 6 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HEAVY RAIN IN WILKES COUNTY UNTIL
400 PM EDT...
AT 327 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER DELHI...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 DELHI...JACKSONS CROSSROADS...
DANBURG...MALLORYSVILLE...NORMAN AND TIGNALL. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS ARE SUBJECT
TO MINOR FLOODING.
&&
LAT...LON 3384 8258 3389 8290 3392 8288 3394 8285
3395 8279 3398 8278 3399 8265 3398 8264
3388 8260 3388 8257 3386 8256
TIME...MOT...LOC 1930Z 197DEG 5KT 3398 8270
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 2:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkes | 34 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
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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.