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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 3, 2013Baldwin County, Greene County, Hancock County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 3, 2013, 11:10 PM EDT for Baldwin County, Greene County, Hancock 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: Jul 3, 2013, 11:10 PM EDT (03:10 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2013, 11:45 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

Counties Baldwin County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:11 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, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 613 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 500 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 167 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.5

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The text

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

759 
WWUS82 KFFC 040310
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1110 PM EDT WED JUL 3 2013

GAZ050-051-060-061-073-074-040345-
1110 PM EDT WED JUL 3 2013

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR 40 MPH WINDS IN WASHINGTON...
TALIAFERRO...PUTNAM...BALDWIN...GREENE AND HANCOCK COUNTIES UNTIL
1145 PM EDT...

AT 1105 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM MILLEDGEVILLE TO TENNILLE...MOVING NORTH AT
30 MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH ARE LIKELY AS THESE STORMS MOVE ACROSS
WASHINGTON...TALIAFERRO...PUTNAM...BALDWIN...GREENE AND HANCOCK
COUNTIES THROUGH 1145 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE
STORMS INCLUDE ALLENWOOD...HARDWICK...UNDERWOOD...MILLEDGEVILLE...
BEULAH...LINTON...PLANT HARLEE BRANCH...TENNILLE...DEVEREUX...
SPARTA...OCONEE SPRINGS PARK...SHOULDERBONE...ROCKVILLE...LIBERTY AND
JACKSONVILLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3281 8282 3310 8296 3304 8329 3347 8334
      3349 8328 3353 8328 3354 8327 3355 8330
      3360 8335 3366 8302 3330 8285 3281 8279
TIME...MOT...LOC 0310Z 175DEG 28KT 3315 8319 3319 8297
          3291 8284

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 8:12 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Union	3 hr
Jul 3, 9:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Macon, Schley, Taylor	30 min
Jul 3, 9:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dodge, Laurens, Wheeler	27 min
Jul 3, 9:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Glascock, Warren	23 min
Jul 3, 9:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Macon, Talbot, Taylor	35 min
Jul 3, 9:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Laurens	34 min
Jul 3, 10:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Talbot, Taylor, Upson	30 min
Jul 3, 10:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether, Pike, Talbot, Upson	50 min
Jul 3, 11:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Coweta, Meriwether, Pike	40 min
Jul 4, 1:33 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Dawson, Forsyth	4 hr
Jul 4, 9:43 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Coweta, Fayette, Spalding	15 hr
Jul 4, 2:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Hall	35 min
Jul 4, 2:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taliaferro, Warren	35 min
Jul 4, 3:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Towns, Union, White	45 min
Jul 4, 3:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clarke, Greene, Morgan, Oconee, Putnam	49 min
Jul 4, 4:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Johnson, Treutlen, Washington	47 min
Jul 4, 4:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts, Clayton, Fayette, Henry, Jasper, Lamar and 3 more	41 min
Jul 4, 5:55 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Johnson, Laurens, Washington	4 hr
Jul 4, 6:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee, Forsyth, Gordon, Pickens	33 min
Jul 4, 7:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Catoosa, Whitfield	44 min

Nearby

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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.