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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jun 27, 2013, 2:06 PM EDT for Laurens 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
- Jun 27, 2013, 2:06 PM EDT (18:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2013, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Laurens County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:05 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 1782 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 682 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</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 27, 2:00 PM EDT, 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 2:00 PM EDT, 6 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 11:17 AM EDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1117 AM EDT THU JUN 27 2013 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-281530- 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- 1117 AM EDT THU JUN 27 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... THE REMNANTS OF A THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX WAS LOCATED OVER NORTH GEORGIA. THESE REMNANTS AND AN EXTREMELY UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN PLACE...WILL LEAD TO STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY OVER CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE THIS AFTERNOON JUST SOUTH OF ATLANTA. WE ARE ALSO EXPECTING TYPICAL SUMMERTIME THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA LATER TODAY AS WELL. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED... THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS OF 60 MPH OR GREATER...HEAVY RAIN...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. BRIEF ISOLATED TORNADOES...ALTHOUGH NOT EXPECTED...WILL BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... A SERIES OF OTHER DISTURBANCES THROUGH WEEKS END WILL ALLOW FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY... ISOLATED STRONG STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. EXPECT FREQUENT LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT REQUESTED AT THIS TIME BUT SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SUBMIT REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH THE WEB BY GOING TO WEATHER.GOV/ATLANTA.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 2:06 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
206 PM EDT THU JUN 27 2013
GAZ097-098-271830-
206 PM EDT THU JUN 27 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR 40 MPH WINDS AND PEA SIZE HAIL
IN TREUTLEN AND LAURENS COUNTIES UNTIL 230 PM EDT...
AT 159 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER HARLOW...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING MAY ALSO DEVELOP WITH THIS STORM. THOSE
OUTDOORS SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH ARE LIKELY AS THIS STORM MOVES ACROSS TREUTLEN
AND LAURENS COUNTIES THROUGH 230 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH
OF THE STORM INCLUDE HARLOW...EAST DUBLIN...DUBLIN...MINTER...
BARNHILL...BLACKVILLE...ORIANNA...ORLAND...LOTHAIR...ROCKLEDGE AND
LOWERY.
&&
LAT...LON 3231 8264 3229 8267 3229 8270 3248 8309
3259 8303 3249 8256
TIME...MOT...LOC 1805Z 291DEG 22KT 3248 8292The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 2:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery | 31 min |
| Jun 27, 3:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery, Toombs | 45 min |
| Jun 27, 3:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 30 min |
| Jun 27, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 50 min |
| Jun 27, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Fayette, Lamar, Pike, Spalding | 45 min |
| Jun 27, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Lamar, Monroe, Spalding | 50 min |
| Jun 27, 5:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether | 27 min |
| Jun 27, 5:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene | 35 min |
| Jun 27, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Lamar, Monroe, Peach, Upson | 42 min |
| Jun 27, 5:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jones | 34 min |
| Jun 27, 6:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Talbot, Upson | 24 min |
| Jun 27, 6:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade, Walker | 48 min |
| Jun 27, 6:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crawford, Peach, Talbot, Taylor | 41 min |
| Jun 27, 6:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Heard, Meriwether, Troup | 37 min |
| Jun 27, 6:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga | 48 min |
| Jun 27, 7:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Murray | 45 min |
| Jun 27, 7:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gordon, Pickens | 47 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.