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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2012, 4:21 PM EDT for Houston County, Peach County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 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, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2012, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Houston County, GA, Peach County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 113 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.
714
WWUS82 KFFC 062021
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
421 PM EDT MON AUG 6 2012
GAZ081-082-094-095-062045-
421 PM EDT MON AUG 6 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR 40 MPH WINDS IN PEACH...BIBB...
CRAWFORD AND HOUSTON COUNTIES UNTIL 445 PM EDT...
AT 415 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER LAKEWOOD...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.
THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS
PEACH...BIBB...CRAWFORD AND HOUSTON COUNTIES THROUGH 445 PM EDT. SOME
LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE HOUSTON LAKE...SAND
BED...KATHLEEN...BONAIRE...PERRY...LAKEWOOD...MIAMI
VALLEY...POWERVILLE...ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE...WARNER
ROBINS...CENTERVILLE...ELBERTA...BYRON...MIDDLE GEORGIA REGIONAL
AIRPORT AND SKIPPERTON. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER
ON ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3246 8382 3280 8386 3280 8355 3276 8355
3274 8360 3271 8360 3270 8361 3267 8360
3266 8358 3266 8357 3265 8355 3245 8356
TIME...MOT...LOC 2021Z 179DEG 15KT 3260 8369
$$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, 4:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Treutlen | 60 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.