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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 2, 2013Jasper County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jun 2, 2013, 1:40 PM EDT for Jasper County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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: Jun 2, 2013, 1:40 PM EDT (17:40 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2013, 2:15 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Jasper County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 85 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1038 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 543 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Atlanta, GA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jun 2, 10:25 AM EDT, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 10:25 AM EDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 11:20 AM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 2, 12:55 PM EDT, 45 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 1:18 PM EDT, 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 1:40 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 8:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dade, Walker	51 min
Jun 2, 3:11 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Murray	49 min
Jun 2, 5:08 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow, Fannin, Gilmer, Pickens	52 min
Jun 2, 12:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fannin, Murray	50 min
Jun 2, 1:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Pickens	27 min
Jun 2, 1:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Lumpkin, Pickens	25 min
Jun 2, 1:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Carroll	35 min
Jun 2, 2:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson, Lumpkin, White	38 min
Jun 2, 2:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Putnam	28 min
Jun 2, 2:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jones	30 min
Jun 2, 2:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Douglas	24 min
Jun 2, 2:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	White	32 min
Jun 2, 3:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Douglas, Fulton	28 min
Jun 2, 3:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Forsyth	29 min
Jun 2, 3:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fayette	34 min
Jun 2, 3:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett	39 min
Jun 2, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Crawford, Jones, Twiggs, Wilkinson	47 min
Jun 2, 3:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clayton, Henry	24 min
Jun 2, 3:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Banks, Hall	48 min
Jun 2, 4:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson	52 min
Jun 2, 4:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin, Hancock	46 min
Jun 2, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Henry, Newton, Rockdale	43 min
Jun 2, 4:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Peach	49 min
Jun 2, 4:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Barrow, Walton	30 min
Jun 2, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkinson	44 min
Jun 2, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks, Jackson, Madison	49 min
Jun 2, 5:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Houston, Peach	40 min
Jun 2, 5:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Morgan, Newton, Oconee, Walton	24 min
Jun 2, 5:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkinson	48 min
Jun 2, 5:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jackson, Madison	47 min
Jun 2, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Talbot	44 min
Jun 2, 5:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Lamar, Monroe	28 min
Jun 2, 5:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Morgan	34 min
Jun 2, 5:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clarke, Oconee	30 min
Jun 2, 5:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Upson	29 min
Jun 2, 6:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taylor	31 min
Jun 2, 6:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Oglethorpe	12 min
Jun 2, 6:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb	34 min
Jun 2, 6:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crawford, Peach	31 min
Jun 2, 6:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Crawford, Peach, Taylor	49 min
Jun 2, 7:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cobb	26 min
Jun 2, 7:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fulton	23 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.