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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 10, 2012, 11:37 PM EDT for Carroll County, Heard County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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 10, 2012, 11:37 PM EDT (03:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2012, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Carroll County, GA, Heard County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 1442 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 974 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
742 WWUS82 KFFC 110337 SPSFFC SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1137 PM EDT FRI AUG 10 2012 GAZ041-042-052-110400- 1137 PM EDT FRI AUG 10 2012 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR 45 MPH WINDS IN CARROLL... HARALSON AND HEARD COUNTIES UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT... AT 1131 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF BLACKJACK MOUNTAIN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. WIND GUSTS OF 45 MPH ARE LIKELY AS THIS STORM MOVES ACROSS CARROLL... HARALSON AND HEARD COUNTIES THROUGH MIDNIGHT EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE EPHESUS...BOWDON...CENTRALHATCHEE... LOWELL...BOWDON JUNCTION...JOHN TANNER STATE PARK... ROOPVILLE...CARROLLTON...MOUNT ZION...BREMEN AND WACO. && LAT...LON 3376 8509 3328 8501 3325 8526 3372 8536 TIME...MOT...LOC 0335Z 266DEG 22KT 3349 8534 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 8:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow | 36 min |
| Aug 10, 9:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee | 42 min |
| Aug 10, 9:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hall | 33 min |
| Aug 10, 9:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth | 31 min |
| Aug 10, 9:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Forsyth | 46 min |
| Aug 10, 9:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hall | 32 min |
| Aug 11, 1:52 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth, Gwinnett | 38 min |
| Aug 11, 2:53 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Barrow, Gwinnett | 37 min |
| Aug 11, 2:55 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin, Union | 50 min |
| Aug 11, 5:03 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion | 42 min |
| Aug 11, 6:34 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Schley, Sumter | 41 min |
| Aug 11, 1:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Peach | 32 min |
| Aug 11, 2:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Warren | 8 min |
| Aug 11, 4:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 29 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.