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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 7, 2012Toombs County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2012, 4:44 PM EDT for Toombs County, Georgia. It was in force for 16 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, 4:44 PM EDT (20:44 UTC)
Expired
Aug 7, 2012, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
16 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA

County Toombs County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 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

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2012-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 355 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2012-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 65 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

310 
WWUS82 KFFC 072044
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
444 PM EDT TUE AUG 7 2012

GAZ113-072100-
444 PM EDT TUE AUG 7 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HEAVY RAIN IN TOOMBS COUNTY UNTIL
500 PM EDT...

AT 442 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTH THOMPSON TO UVALDA...MOVING NORTH AT 
5 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 TOOMBS COUNTY THROUGH 500 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH
OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE TOOMBS CENTRAL...NEW BRANCH...JOHNSON
CORNER...MCNATT FALLS...GRAYS LANDING...ENGLISH EDDY...CEDAR
CROSSING...ROCK SPRINGS...PONDEROSA...OHOOPEE...SANTA CLAUS...
LYONS...CENTER AND SOUTH THOMPSON. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING
OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 3193 8228 3193 8233 3194 8238 3195 8239
      3195 8240 3196 8244 3196 8248 3220 8245
      3226 8222 3216 8217 3208 8220 3191 8222
      3191 8225
TIME...MOT...LOC 2044Z 195DEG 5KT 3210 8234 3203 8261
          3186 8298

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 2:11 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCUnion34 min
Aug 7, 2:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCherokee24 min
Aug 7, 3:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCobb39 min
Aug 7, 4:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCToombs30 min
Aug 7, 4:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMontgomery, Telfair, Wheeler28 min
Aug 7, 4:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCWilkes35 min
Aug 7, 4:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCUnion38 min
Aug 7, 4:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMontgomery, Telfair, Toombs, Wheeler32 min
Aug 7, 5:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMontgomery, Wheeler43 min
Aug 7, 5:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCWilkes36 min
Aug 7, 5:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCEmanuel25 min
Aug 7, 5:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCLaurens26 min
Aug 7, 5:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCJohnson31 min
Aug 7, 6:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCJohnson23 min
Aug 7, 6:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCGlascock33 min
Aug 7, 7:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCWashington25 min
Aug 7, 7:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHall28 min
Aug 7, 7:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCGlascock, Washington86 min
Aug 7, 7:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBanks, Madison49 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.