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, 4:15 PM EDT for Treutlen County, Georgia. It was in force for 60 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, 4:15 PM EDT (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2012, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Treutlen County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 206 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.
382
WWUS82 KFFC 062015
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
415 PM EDT MON AUG 6 2012
GAZ098-062115-
415 PM EDT MON AUG 6 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HEAVY RAIN IN TREUTLEN COUNTY
UNTIL 515 PM EDT...
AT 411 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER SOPERTON...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH. RAINFALL
AMOUNTS NEAR 3 INCHES HAVE ALREADY FALLEN NEAR SOPERTON AND ANOTHER
HALF INCH OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE OVER THE NEXT HOUR.
RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS
AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES ACROSS
TREUTLEN COUNTY...INCLUDING AREAS AROUND BARNHILL...ZAIDEE...
LOTHAIR...SOPERTON...FIVE POINTS...ORLAND...GILLIS SPRINGS AND
BLACKVILLE. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS ARE SUBJECT TO MINOR FLOODING.
&&
LAT...LON 3230 8269 3244 8270 3246 8269 3247 8264
3250 8264 3251 8265 3250 8249 3245 8242
3235 8241
TIME...MOT...LOC 2012Z 178DEG 5KT 3241 8256
$$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, 3:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkes | 30 min |
| Aug 6, 3:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Treutlen | 32 min |
| Aug 6, 4:21 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 |
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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.