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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
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 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.
- 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.
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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.
| 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, 4:32 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, 4:52 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.