Alert archive / Georgia / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2012, 4:52 PM EDT for Union County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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, 4:52 PM EDT (20:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2012, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Union County, GA
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 717 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 568 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
430
WWUS82 KFFC 072052
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
452 PM EDT TUE AUG 7 2012
GAZ008-072130-
452 PM EDT TUE AUG 7 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HEAVY RAIN IN UNION COUNTY UNTIL
530 PM EDT...
AT 449 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR OWLTOWN...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.
RAINFALL AMOUNTS ESTIMATED BETWEEN ONE TO ONE AND A HALF INCHES
HAVE FALLEN ACROSS UNION COUNTY...INCLUDING AREAS AROUND JONES
CREEK...OWLTOWN...BLAIRSVILLE...TRACK ROCK...NOTTELY DAM...IVY
LOG...WOODS HOLE SHELTER...GOOCH MOUNTAIN SHELTER...HAWK MOUNTAIN
SHELTER...VOGEL STATE PARK...SUCHES AND GADDISTOWN. DRIVERS SHOULD
USE CAUTION AS INTENSE RAINFALL WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES. PONDING OF
WATER ON ROADWAYS IS ALSO LIKELY.
&&
LAT...LON 3492 8391 3490 8381 3480 8378 3478 8383
3473 8383 3474 8394 3464 8404 3466 8412
3465 8415 3476 8409 3480 8410 3481 8414
3489 8411 3494 8417 3496 8417 3499 8413
3499 8394
TIME...MOT...LOC 2051Z 349DEG 5KT 3481 8398
$$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, 4:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 16 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.