Alert archive / Georgia / Special Weather Statements in 2013
Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Feb 13, 2013, 1:07 AM EST for Jefferson 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
- Feb 13, 2013, 1:07 AM EST (06:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2013, 1:30 AM EST
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Jefferson County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:10 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 766 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 90 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 411 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
139
WWUS82 KFFC 130607
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
107 AM EST WED FEB 13 2013
GAZ074>076-130630-
107 AM EST WED FEB 13 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PEA SIZED HAIL AND 35 MPH WINDS
IN WASHINGTON...GLASCOCK AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES UNTIL 130 AM EST...
AT 102 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER DEEPSTEP...MOVING EAST AT 65 MPH.
THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE PEA SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS
WASHINGTON...GLASCOCK AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES THROUGH 130 AM EST. SOME
LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE DEEPSTEP...WARTHEN...
DOWNS...EDGEHILL...GRANGE...AVERA...STAPLETONS CROSSROADS...
STELLAVILLE...MATTHEWS...WRENS AND STAPLETON.
THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO REACH SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
CRITERIA...WHICH IS HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS OR LARGER OR DAMAGING
WIND GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR HIGHER.
&&
LAT...LON 3307 8228 3297 8304 3303 8306 3307 8304
3329 8229 3325 8224 3323 8223
TIME...MOT...LOC 0607Z 255DEG 57KT 3305 8285
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 10:56 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Butts, Jasper | 34 min |
| Feb 12, 11:18 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hancock, Putnam | 27 min |
| Feb 12, 11:45 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Warren | 30 min |
| Feb 13, 1:32 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jefferson | 13 min |
| Feb 13, 3:16 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Crawford, Talbot, Taylor, Upson | 11 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.