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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 13, 2013Bleckley County, Pulaski County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jun 13, 2013, 10:52 PM EDT for Bleckley County, Pulaski County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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 13, 2013, 10:52 PM EDT (02:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2013, 11:30 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

Counties Bleckley County, GA, Pulaski County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 1305 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1588 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 206 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 9.8

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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 13, 10:45 PM EDT, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 10:45 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 13, 12:30 PM EDT, 10 hours 22 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1230 PM EDT THU JUN 13 2013

GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086-
089>098-102>113-141000-
BALDWIN-BANKS-BARROW-BARTOW-BIBB-BLECKLEY-BUTTS-CARROLL-CATOOSA-
CHATTAHOOCHEE-CHATTOOGA-CHEROKEE-CLARKE-CLAYTON-COBB-COWETA-
CRAWFORD-CRISP-DADE-DAWSON-DEKALB-DODGE-DOOLY-DOUGLAS-EMANUEL-
FANNIN-FAYETTE-FLOYD-FORSYTH-GILMER-GLASCOCK-GORDON-GREENE-
GWINNETT-HALL-HANCOCK-HARALSON-HARRIS-HEARD-HENRY-HOUSTON-JACKSON-
JASPER-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-JONES-LAMAR-LAURENS-LUMPKIN-MACON-
MADISON-MARION-MERIWETHER-MONROE-MONTGOMERY-MORGAN-MURRAY-
MUSCOGEE-NEWTON-NORTH FULTON-OCONEE-OGLETHORPE-PAULDING-PEACH-
PICKENS-PIKE-POLK-PULASKI-PUTNAM-ROCKDALE-SCHLEY-SOUTH FULTON-
SPALDING-STEWART-SUMTER-TALBOT-TALIAFERRO-TAYLOR-TELFAIR-TOOMBS-
TOWNS-TREUTLEN-TROUP-TWIGGS-UNION-UPSON-WALKER-WALTON-WARREN-
WASHINGTON-WEBSTER-WHEELER-WHITE-WHITFIELD-WILCOX-WILKES-
WILKINSON-
1230 PM EDT THU JUN 13 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL
GEORGIA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED OVER NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA
   THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...

WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED...
DAMAGING WINDS TO 70 MPH...LARGE HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...BRIEF
HEAVY RAIN.

DISCUSSION...
A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO NORTH GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND MOVE
ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH TONIGHT. THE FRONT WILL BE SUPPORTED BY AN
UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND WILL ENCOUNTER AN INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE
AIRMASS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG AND
AHEAD OF THE FRONT AND PROGRESS SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE
AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THERE IS ENOUGH UNCERTAINTY THAT WIDESPREAD
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY
AS MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY RETURN TO THE AREA ALONG WITH THE
POTENTIAL FOR UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES TO ENHANCE THUNDERSTORM
POTENTIAL.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED STARTING AT 200 PM EDT THIS
AFTERNOON. EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD MONITOR THE FORECAST AND
PROGRESSION OF ANY SEVERE WEATHER.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 13, 10:11 PM EDT, 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 13, 10:26 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 10:29 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 10:37 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 13, 10:52 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 10:52 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 13, 8:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Morgan, Oglethorpe	44 min
Jun 13, 8:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, DeKalb, Fayette, Fulton, Henry, Newton and 1 more	39 min
Jun 13, 8:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Cobb, Coweta, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton and 3 more	48 min
Jun 13, 8:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Henry, Jasper, Newton	47 min
Jun 13, 8:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Henry, Spalding	45 min
Jun 13, 8:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Hancock, Morgan, Putnam	41 min
Jun 13, 9:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Jones, Monroe	51 min
Jun 13, 9:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton, Heard and 1 more	35 min
Jun 13, 9:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Heard, Lamar, Meriwether, Pike, Troup, Upson	30 min
Jun 13, 9:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Coweta	16 min
Jun 13, 9:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Twiggs, Wilkinson	52 min
Jun 13, 9:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris, Meriwether, Pike, Troup, Upson	50 min
Jun 13, 10:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crawford	34 min
Jun 13, 10:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris, Muscogee, Talbot, Taylor	46 min
Jun 13, 10:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Houston, Peach	23 min
Jun 13, 11:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Marion, Muscogee, Schley, Stewart, Sumter and 1 more	65 min
Jun 13, 11:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crisp	26 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Georgia, 2013 Every special weather statement in 2013

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.