Alert archive / Georgia / Special Weather Statements in 2013
Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jun 24, 2013, 1:30 PM EDT for Laurens County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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 24, 2013, 1:30 PM EDT (17:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2013, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Laurens County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:31 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 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 1137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 524 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>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 24, 10:52 AM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 10:52 AM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 24, 5:47 AM EDT, 7 hours 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 547 AM EDT MON JUN 24 2013 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-251000- 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- 547 AM EDT MON JUN 24 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA AS INSTABILITY INCREASES WITH DAYTIME HEATING. THE HIGHEST CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED... THE MAIN THREATS WILL ANY DEVELOPMENT WILL BE OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...AND GUSTY WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... MOIST AND UNSTABLE CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE WEEK...WITH SUMMERTIME CONVECTION EXPECTED EACH DAY. IT IS POSSIBLE FOR SOME ISOLATED STRONG STORMS...GENERALLY IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING DUE TO DAYTIME HEATING. EXPECT FREQUENT LIGHTNING...STRONG WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL AS THE MAIN THREATS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 1:30 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
130 PM EDT MON JUN 24 2013
GAZ097-241800-
130 PM EDT MON JUN 24 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR 40 MPH WINDS IN LAURENS COUNTY
UNTIL 200 PM EDT...
AT 126 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER HARLOW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.
THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE PEA SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS
LAURENS COUNTY THROUGH 200 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM INCLUDE DUDLEY...DEXTER...HARLOW...MINTER...CHAPPELLS MILL...
EAST DUBLIN AND DUBLIN. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER
ON ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3261 8315 3266 8305 3271 8293 3250 8272
3240 8302 3241 8308 3251 8316
TIME...MOT...LOC 1730Z 236DEG 5KT 3250 8304The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 1:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 29 min |
| Jun 24, 2:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge | 52 min |
| Jun 24, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge | 42 min |
| Jun 24, 3:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Houston | 33 min |
| Jun 24, 3:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Houston | 39 min |
| Jun 24, 3:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock | 48 min |
| Jun 24, 3:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp | 49 min |
| Jun 24, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Houston, Twiggs | 52 min |
| Jun 24, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Peach, Twiggs | 48 min |
| Jun 24, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Peach | 46 min |
| Jun 24, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly | 39 min |
| Jun 24, 4:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Sumter | 52 min |
| Jun 24, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Houston, Twiggs | 39 min |
| Jun 24, 4:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taylor | 48 min |
| Jun 24, 4:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp, Wilcox | 29 min |
| Jun 24, 5:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb | 40 min |
| Jun 24, 5:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Sumter | 48 min |
| Jun 24, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Jones, Monroe | 40 min |
| Jun 24, 5:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Macon | 27 min |
| Jun 24, 6:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin | 35 min |
| Jun 24, 6:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Rockdale | 45 min |
| Jun 24, 6:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hancock | 28 min |
| Jun 24, 7:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 29 min |
| Jun 24, 7:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hancock | 25 min |
| Jun 24, 7:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 32 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Georgia, 2013Every 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.