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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 9, 2013, 5:44 PM EDT for Hall County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 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 9, 2013, 5:44 PM EDT (21:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2013, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Hall County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 319 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
- 611 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 697 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 9, 3:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 3:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 9, 2:18 PM EDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 218 PM EDT TUE JUL 9 2013 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-101200- 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- 218 PM EDT TUE JUL 9 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... AMPLE MOISTURE AND DAYTIME HEATING WILL RESULT IN SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE GROUND IS SATURATED AND ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN COULD LEAD TO FLOODING OR FLASH FLOODING. RESIDENTS ARE URGED NOT TO LET THEIR GUARD DOWN DURING THIS PROLONGED CONVECTIVE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL PERIOD. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED... PERIODS OF MODERATE TO LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING MAY LEAD TO ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING AND RIVER FLOODING. RAINFALL AMOUNTS AVERAGING AROUND HALF AN INCH CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE. WHILE THIS AMOUNT OF RAIN IS NOT PARTICULARLY HIGH... SOILS ARE EXTREMELY SATURATED AND RIVER LEVELS ARE HIGH...THUS IT WILL NOT TAKE MUCH TO PRODUCE ADDITIONAL FLOODING. THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO UP TO 40 MPH. WITH SATURATED SOILS...IT WILL NOT TAKE MUCH WIND TO DOWN TREES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... ALTHOUGH THE RAINFALL THROUGH THE WEEK AND INTO THIS WEEKEND WILL NOT BE AS PROLONGED OR WIDESPREAD AS WHAT WE SAW LAST WEEK...THERE WILL STILL BE PERIODS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL IN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THIS IS ESPECIALLY THE CASE THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AS A FRONT MOVES INTO THE STATE. NORTH GEORGIA WILL AGAIN HAVE THE BEST CHANCES FOR ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AND THERE IS SOME CONCERN THAT ACCUMULATING HIGH RAINFALL TOTALS MAY LEAD TO MORE SIGNIFICANT FLOODING ACROSS THE AREA. PERSONS PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT REQUESTED 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, Jul 9, 5:44 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
544 PM EDT TUE JUL 9 2013
GAZ015-016-023-092230-
544 PM EDT TUE JUL 9 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR DIME SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN WHITE...LUMPKIN AND HALL COUNTIES UNTIL 630 PM EDT...
AT 543 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER CLERMONT...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH.
THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DIME SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS
WHITE...LUMPKIN AND HALL COUNTIES THROUGH 630 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS
IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE MOSSY CREEK...CLERMONT AND GARLAND.
HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.
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LAT...LON 3452 8364 3451 8365 3445 8362 3435 8373
3450 8396 3459 8371
TIME...MOT...LOC 2144Z 056DEG 9KT 3450 8375The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 8:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 42 min |
| Jul 8, 8:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth | 78 min |
| Jul 8, 8:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hall | 59 min |
| Jul 8, 8:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Hall | 6 hr |
| Jul 8, 9:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pickens | 48 min |
| Jul 8, 9:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Dawson, Pickens | 6 hr |
| Jul 8, 11:18 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gordon, Murray, Whitfield | 31 hr |
| Jul 9, 12:59 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Madison | 31 min |
| Jul 9, 1:29 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Madison | 31 min |
| Jul 9, 5:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Carroll | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 7:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Spalding | 35 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.