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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2012, 4:15 PM EDT for Toombs 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 7, 2012, 4:15 PM EDT (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2012, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Toombs County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 123 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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 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
- 355 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 859 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
740
WWUS82 KFFC 072015
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
415 PM EDT TUE AUG 7 2012
GAZ113-072045-
415 PM EDT TUE AUG 7 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PEA SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN TOOMBS COUNTY UNTIL 445 PM EDT...
AT 411 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR JOHNSON CORNER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.
THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE PEA SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS
TOOMBS COUNTY THROUGH 445 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM INCLUDE TOOMBS CENTRAL...JOHNSON CORNER...GRAYS LANDING...
ENGLISH EDDY...CEDAR CROSSING...SOUTH THOMPSON...NEW BRANCH...
PONDEROSA...OHOOPEE...SANTA CLAUS AND LYONS. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL
CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.
THESE WIND GUSTS MAY PRODUCE MINOR DAMAGE TO TREE LIMBS AND BLOW
LIGHT...UNSECURED OBJECTS AROUND.
&&
LAT...LON 3193 8228 3193 8233 3194 8238 3195 8239
3195 8240 3197 8247 3225 8230 3220 8218
3218 8218 3191 8222 3191 8225
TIME...MOT...LOC 2015Z 208DEG 6KT 3205 8227
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 2:11 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Union | 34 min |
| Aug 7, 2:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee | 24 min |
| Aug 7, 3:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb | 39 min |
| Aug 7, 4:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery, Telfair, Wheeler | 28 min |
| Aug 7, 4:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkes | 35 min |
| Aug 7, 4:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 16 min |
| Aug 7, 4:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Union | 38 min |
| Aug 7, 4:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery, Telfair, Toombs, Wheeler | 32 min |
| Aug 7, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Wheeler | 43 min |
| Aug 7, 5:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkes | 36 min |
| Aug 7, 5:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 25 min |
| Aug 7, 5:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 26 min |
| Aug 7, 5:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 31 min |
| Aug 7, 6:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 23 min |
| Aug 7, 6:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock | 33 min |
| Aug 7, 7:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Washington | 25 min |
| Aug 7, 7:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hall | 28 min |
| Aug 7, 7:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock, Washington | 86 min |
| Aug 7, 7:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks, Madison | 49 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.