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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2012, 6:15 PM EDT for Baldwin County, Wilkinson 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, 6:15 PM EDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2012, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Baldwin County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 133 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.
872
WWUS82 KFFC 062215
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
615 PM EDT MON AUG 6 2012
GAZ073-074-084-062245-
615 PM EDT MON AUG 6 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR 40 MPH WINDS IN WASHINGTON...
WILKINSON AND BALDWIN COUNTIES UNTIL 645 PM EDT...
AT 612 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER MCINTYRE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS WASHINGTON...
WILKINSON AND BALDWIN COUNTIES THROUGH 645 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN
THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE MCINTYRE...IVEY...GORDON...
IRWINTON...COOPERS...ALLENWOOD...HARDWICK...SCOTTSBORO...PANCRAS AND
MILLEDGEVILLE. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON
ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3265 8320 3269 8329 3286 8338 3311 8328
3302 8300
TIME...MOT...LOC 2215Z 205DEG 10KT 3289 8324
$$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, 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, 6:48 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.