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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 13, 2013, 2:07 PM EDT for Clarke County, Madison County, Oglethorpe County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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 13, 2013, 2:07 PM EDT (18:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2013, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Clarke County, GA, Madison County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:07 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 576 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 591 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 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 13, 1:57 PM EDT, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 1:57 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1205 PM EDT SAT JUL 13 2013 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-141615- 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- 1205 PM EDT SAT JUL 13 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL EARLY SUNDAY MORNING FOR EASTERN GEORGIA... PERIODS OF MODERATE TO LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ARE STILL POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT...MAINLY ACROSS EASTERN GEORGIA. SOILS REMAIN SATURATED AND FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL. WITH SATURATED SOILS...IT WILL NOT TAKE MUCH WIND TO BLOW DOWN TREES. SOME ISOLATED STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE SCATTERED AND DIURNAL INTO NEXT WEEK. THERE WILL STILL BE PERIODS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS SO LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL REMAIN A POSSIBILITY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT...HOWEVER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY HEAVY RAINFALL...FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 1:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
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</html>Local storm report, Jul 13, 1:11 PM EDT, 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
111 PM EDT SAT JUL 13 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1031 AM FLOOD AVERA 33.19N 82.53W
07/13/2013 JEFFERSON GA EMERGENCY MNGR
JEFFERSON COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGER REPORTED WASHED OUT
ROADS NEAR AVERA. ALMOST TWO INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN A
THREE HOUR PERIOD. WITH ALREADY WET SOIL...THIS RAINFALL
QUICKLY OVERWHELMED DRAINAGE SYSTEMS LEADING TO WASHED
OUT ROADS.
1045 AM FLOOD WARRENTON 33.41N 82.66W
07/13/2013 WARREN GA EMERGENCY MNGR
WARREN COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED
THAT A FEW ROADS WERE WASHED OUT ACROSS THE COUNTY.
RECENT RAINFALL HAS OVERWHELMED THE DRAINAGE SYSTEMS
LEADING TO WASHED OUT ROADS.
1215 PM FLOOD WRIGHTSVILLE 32.73N 82.72W
07/13/2013 JOHNSON GA EMERGENCY MNGR
JOHNSON COUNTY EM RELAYED A REPORT OF NUMEROUS WASHED OUT
ROADS THROUGOUT THE COUNTY. RECENT RAINFALL HAD
OVERWHELMED THE DRAINAGE SYSTEMS LEADING TO WASHED OUT
ROADS. IN SOME AREAS THERE IS SO MUCH WATER THAT CREWS
CANNOT GET OUT TO FIX THE BOX CULVERTS AND WASHED OUT
ROADS.
&&
AGIBBSSpecial weather statement, Jul 13, 2:07 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
207 PM EDT SAT JUL 13 2013
GAZ025-027-036-038-039-131830-
207 PM EDT SAT JUL 13 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HEAVY RAIN IN WILKES...
OGLETHORPE...MADISON...CLARKE AND JACKSON COUNTIES UNTIL 230 PM
EDT...
AT 202 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN OVER NORTHERN OGLETHORPE
AND NORTHERN WILKES COUNTIES...MOVING WEST AT 15 MPH.
RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS
AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES ACROSS
WILKES...OGLETHORPE...MADISON...CLARKE AND JACKSON COUNTIES...
INCLUDING AREAS AROUND JACKSONS CROSSROADS...MALLORYSVILLE...
NEWTOWN...NORMAN...TIGNALL...VESTA...POINT PETER...CARLTON...SANDY
CROSS...DUNLAP...SMITHONIA...LEXINGTON...CRAWFORD...ARNOLDSVILLE AND
WINTERVILLE. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS ARE SUBJECT TO MINOR FLOODING.
&&
LAT...LON 3395 8353 3420 8339 3424 8335 3419 8309
3417 8309 3401 8293 3402 8291 3399 8286
3400 8283 3398 8279 3399 8265 3388 8260
3387 8256 3382 8259 3374 8254
TIME...MOT...LOC 1806Z 103DEG 12KT 3399 8297The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 8:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb | 46 min |
| Jul 12, 8:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkes | 51 min |
| Jul 12, 9:17 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 2 hr |
| Jul 12, 9:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Taliaferro, Warren, Wilkes | 43 min |
| Jul 12, 10:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene, Hancock, Putnam, Taliaferro, Warren | 49 min |
| Jul 12, 11:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jasper, Putnam | 46 min |
| Jul 13, 12:17 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jones | 43 min |
| Jul 13, 12:48 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Twiggs | 42 min |
| Jul 13, 1:37 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Peach, Taylor | 38 min |
| Jul 13, 10:41 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson, Warren | 24 hr |
| Jul 13, 11:29 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | FFC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 80 more | 33 hr |
| Jul 13, 12:48 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | FFC | Johnson | 24 hr |
| Jul 13, 1:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 84 min |
| Jul 13, 2:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clarke, Madison, Oglethorpe | 61 min |
| Jul 13, 3:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clarke, Madison, Oglethorpe | 116 min |
| Jul 13, 4:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion, Schley, Sumter, Taylor, Webster | 45 min |
| Jul 13, 4:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 43 min |
| Jul 13, 4:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Harris, Muscogee | 43 min |
| Jul 13, 5:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 30 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.