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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2012, 4:32 PM EDT for Montgomery County, Telfair County, Wheeler County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 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, 4:32 PM EDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2012, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Montgomery County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Wheeler County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 190 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.
912
WWUS82 KFFC 072032
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
432 PM EDT TUE AUG 7 2012
GAZ110>112-072100-
432 PM EDT TUE AUG 7 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PEA SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN WHEELER...TELFAIR AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES UNTIL 500 PM EDT...
AT 428 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ALSTON TO
JACKSONVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.
THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE PEA SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS THEY MOVE
ACROSS WHEELER...TELFAIR AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES THROUGH 500 PM EDT.
SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE CHARLOTTEVILLE...
LUMBER CITY...JACKSONVILLE...UVALDA...ALSTON...SPRING HILL...
JORDAN...WORKMORE...TOWNS...HIGGSTON...AILEY...LITTLE OCMULGEE STATE
PARK...GLENWOOD...SCOTLAND AND HELENA. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE
PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.
CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO...WEATHER.GOV OR OTHER MEDIA
OUTLETS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON THESE STORMS.
&&
LAT...LON 3180 8309 3207 8300 3221 8260 3225 8244
3195 8249 3195 8256 3192 8261 3192 8267
3189 8271 3177 8302
TIME...MOT...LOC 2031Z 197DEG 16KT 3205 8240 3197 8268
3186 8298
$$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, 4:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 30 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.