Alert archive / Georgia / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Dec 10, 2012, 6:13 AM EST for Catoosa County, Murray County, Whitfield County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 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
- Dec 10, 2012, 6:13 AM EST (11:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 10, 2012, 7:00 AM EST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Catoosa County, GA, Murray County, GA, Whitfield County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:16 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 00:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1249 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
822
WWUS82 KFFC 101113
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
613 AM EST MON DEC 10 2012
GAZ002>005-101200-
613 AM EST MON DEC 10 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR 40 MPH WINDS IN WHITFIELD...
WALKER...MURRAY AND CATOOSA COUNTIES UNTIL 700 AM EST...
AT 607 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM GRAYSVILLE TO 8 MILES WEST OF NOBLE...
MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH ARE LIKELY AS THESE STORMS MOVE ACROSS
WHITFIELD...WALKER...MURRAY AND CATOOSA COUNTIES THROUGH 700 AM EST.
SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE BOYNTON...INDIAN
SPRINGS...GRAYSVILLE...FORT OGLETHORPE...CHICKAMAUGA...BLUE SPRING...
ROCK SPRING...SALEM...BEAUMONT...RINGGOLD...NOBLE...WOOD STATION...
TUNNEL HILL...VARNELL AND COHUTTA.
&&
LAT...LON 3499 8462 3486 8462 3483 8459 3467 8477
3475 8540 3499 8524
TIME...MOT...LOC 1113Z 274DEG 33KT 3502 8507 3478 8533
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 10, 2:57 AM EST | Wind Advisory | FFC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin and 6 more | 16 hr |
| Dec 10, 5:12 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Walker | 63 min |
| Dec 10, 6:29 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 31 min |
| Dec 10, 6:55 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga, Floyd | 35 min |
| Dec 10, 8:15 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery, Telfair, Toombs and 2 more | 105 min |
| Dec 10, 11:24 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Heard | 51 min |
| Dec 10, 11:50 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Haralson | 25 min |
| Dec 10, 12:06 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth | 39 min |
| Dec 10, 12:12 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta, Douglas, Fulton, Heard | 48 min |
| Dec 10, 3:26 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pike | 49 min |
| Dec 10, 3:29 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion | 31 min |
| Dec 10, 3:58 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion | 47 min |
| Dec 10, 4:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Hancock, Morgan, Putnam | 43 min |
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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.