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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Dec 20, 2012, 1:13 PM EST for Coweta County, Meriwether County, Georgia. It was in force for 77 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 20, 2012, 1:13 PM EST (18:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 20, 2012, 2:30 PM EST
- In force
- 77 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Coweta County, GA, Meriwether County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:16 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 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 22 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
- 2398 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 408 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
989
WWUS82 KFFC 201813
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
113 PM EST THU DEC 20 2012
GAZ053-067-201930-
113 PM EST THU DEC 20 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR 40 MPH WINDS IN MERIWETHER AND
COWETA COUNTIES UNTIL 230 PM EST...
AT 110 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT STRETCHED FROM NEAR POWERS
CROSSROADS TO ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STOVALL...AND MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH ARE LIKELY AS THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
MOVE ACROSS PARTS OF MERIWETHER AND COWETA COUNTIES THROUGH 230 PM
EST. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE POWERS
CROSSROADS... HANDY... SAINT MARKS... LONE OAK... GRANTVILLE...
NEWNAN... STOVALL... DURAND... ARNCO-SARGENT... LUTHERSVILLE...
MORELAND...HARRIS CITY...WARM SPRINGS...MANCHESTER AND MADRAS.
&&
LAT...LON 3351 8462 3350 8461 3348 8463 3340 8461
3335 8457 3333 8452 3326 8450 3318 8450
3304 8454 3288 8451 3285 8456 3287 8485
3288 8486 3322 8486 3323 8494 3338 8499
TIME...MOT...LOC 1812Z 237DEG 59KT 3332 8487 3308 8490
3293 8499
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 20, 12:55 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Heard, Troup | 50 min |
| Dec 20, 1:07 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 38 min |
| Dec 20, 1:27 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Stewart | 63 min |
| Dec 20, 1:29 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Stewart | 61 min |
| Dec 20, 1:43 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Muscogee | 32 min |
| Dec 20, 1:45 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fayette | 30 min |
| Dec 20, 2:00 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Talbot | 45 min |
| Dec 20, 2:01 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pike | 29 min |
| Dec 20, 2:07 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion | 38 min |
| Dec 20, 2:17 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Webster | 43 min |
| Dec 20, 2:26 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lamar, Pike, Upson | 34 min |
| Dec 20, 2:35 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Macon, Schley, Sumter | 55 min |
| Dec 20, 2:43 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp, Dooly | 47 min |
| Dec 20, 2:47 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taylor | 43 min |
| Dec 20, 3:29 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pulaski, Wilcox | 31 min |
| Dec 20, 3:31 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp | 29 min |
| Dec 20, 3:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp | 22 min |
| Dec 20, 3:42 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jones | 33 min |
| Dec 20, 4:04 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge | 26 min |
| Dec 20, 4:10 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 7 hr |
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.