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, 4:59 PM EDT for Laurens County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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, 4:59 PM EDT (20:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2012, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Laurens County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 165 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.
436
WWUS82 KFFC 062059
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
459 PM EDT MON AUG 6 2012
GAZ097-109-062130-
459 PM EDT MON AUG 6 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR 40 MPH WINDS IN LAURENS AND DODGE
COUNTIES UNTIL 530 PM EDT...
AT 457 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER CADWELL...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.
THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS LAURENS AND
DODGE COUNTIES THROUGH 530 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF
THIS STORM INCLUDE PLAINFIELD...CADWELL...RENTZ...CHESTER...
DEXTER...HARLOW...ROWLAND AND DUDLEY. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE
PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3242 8322 3245 8318 3244 8315 3253 8320
3254 8320 3258 8299 3227 8290 3221 8310
TIME...MOT...LOC 2059Z 161DEG 18KT 3233 8304
$$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, 4:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Houston, Peach | 24 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.