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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2012, 5:09 PM EDT for Wilkes County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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, 5:09 PM EDT (21:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2012, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Wilkes County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 179 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.
503
WWUS82 KFFC 072109
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
509 PM EDT TUE AUG 7 2012
GAZ039-072145-
509 PM EDT TUE AUG 7 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HEAVY RAIN IN WILKES COUNTY UNTIL
545 PM EDT...
AT 506 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
NEARLY STATIONARY THUNDERSTORM NEAR DELHI.
RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS
AND STREAMS...STREETS AND LOW-LYING AREAS ACROSS NORTHERN WILKES
COUNTY... INCLUDING AREAS AROUND NORMAN...FLORAL HILL...DELHI...
DANBURG... MALLORYSVILLE AND TIGNALL. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS
AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS ARE SUBJECT TO
MINOR FLOODING.
CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO...WEATHER.GOV OR OTHER MEDIA
OUTLETS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON THESE STORMS.
&&
LAT...LON 3382 8259 3385 8285 3394 8284 3395 8279
3398 8278 3399 8266 3398 8264 3388 8260
3388 8257 3387 8256
TIME...MOT...LOC 2108Z 001DEG 0KT 3394 8271
$$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, 4:52 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, 5:20 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.