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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jun 7, 2013, 3:21 PM EDT for Floyd County, Georgia. It was in force for 39 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 7, 2013, 3:21 PM EDT (19:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2013, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Floyd County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:25 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 560 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 483 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
810 WWUS82 KFFC 071921 SPSFFC SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 321 PM EDT FRI JUN 7 2013 GAZ012-019-020-072000- 321 PM EDT FRI JUN 7 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HEAVY RAIN IN BARTOW...FLOYD AND GORDON COUNTIES UNTIL 400 PM EDT... AT 317 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER ROME...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN ONE AND ONE AND A HALF INCHES AN HOUR CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS PORTIONS OF BARTOW...FLOYD AND GORDON COUNTIES. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO FALL ALONG A LINE FROM ROME TO SHANNON TO PLAINVILLE. DRIVERS SHOULD USE CAUTION AS INTENSE RAINFALL WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES. PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS IS ALSO LIKELY. && LAT...LON 3451 8496 3431 8483 3418 8526 3433 8536 TIME...MOT...LOC 1919Z 242DEG 24KT 3427 8522 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 12:51 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 84 min |
| Jun 7, 2:01 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson, Johnson, Warren, Washington | 119 min |
| Jun 7, 2:17 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson, Johnson, Warren, Washington | 103 min |
| Jun 7, 3:09 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Johnson | 6 hr |
| Jun 7, 3:17 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Washington | 6 hr |
| Jun 7, 3:57 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock, Hancock, Jefferson, Taliaferro, Warren | 2 hr |
| Jun 7, 4:08 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson, Warren | 6 hr |
| Jun 7, 3:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow | 23 min |
| Jun 7, 3:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Morgan, Newton | 50 min |
| Jun 7, 4:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow, Gordon | 28 min |
| Jun 7, 4:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Murray | 33 min |
| Jun 7, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, Fulton | 40 min |
| Jun 7, 4:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 3 hr |
| Jun 7, 5:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 25 min |
| Jun 7, 5:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton | 29 min |
| Jun 7, 5:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Barrow, Walton | 24 min |
| Jun 7, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee, Talbot | 50 min |
| Jun 7, 6:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge | 25 min |
| Jun 7, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Laurens | 26 min |
| Jun 7, 6:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jasper, Putnam | 37 min |
| Jun 7, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Laurens | 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.