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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Feb 23, 2013, 2:21 AM EST for Meriwether County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 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 23, 2013, 2:21 AM EST (07:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2013, 2:45 AM EST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Meriwether County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 408 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
006
WWUS82 KFFC 230721
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
221 AM EST SAT FEB 23 2013
GAZ066-067-078-230745-
221 AM EST SAT FEB 23 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PEA SIZED HAIL IN TROUP...
MERIWETHER AND HARRIS COUNTIES UNTIL 245 AM EST...
AT 214 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF WHITESVILLE-PINE LAKE...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.
THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE PEA SIZED HAIL AND FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AS IT MOVES ACROSS TROUP...MERIWETHER AND
HARRIS COUNTIES THROUGH 245 AM EST. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF
THIS STORM INCLUDE WHITESVILLE-PINE LAKE...BAUGHS CROSSROADS...JONES
CROSSROADS...PINE MOUNTAIN-CALLAWAY GARDENS...BIG
SPRINGS...STOVALL...ODESSADALE...DURAND...RALEIGH...HARRIS
CITY...WOOSTER...IMLAC...ALVATON...WOODBURY AND GAY.
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 3284 8516 3286 8517 3319 8457 3310 8452
3310 8453 3308 8452 3308 8453 3305 8452
3304 8454 3297 8452 3275 8512 3283 8517
TIME...MOT...LOC 0721Z 242DEG 49KT 3285 8506
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 7:57 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Muscogee | 33 min |
| Feb 23, 4:41 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton | 18 hr |
| Feb 23, 7:12 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 6 hr |
| Feb 23, 2:50 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Bibb, Houston, Jones, Monroe, Twiggs | 55 hr |
| Feb 23, 4:13 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Spalding | 6 hr |
| Feb 23, 6:29 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | FFC | Crisp | 6 hr |
| Feb 23, 6:31 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Telfair | 4 hr |
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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.