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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 20, 2013Paulding County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 20, 2013, 1:56 AM EDT for Paulding County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 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 20, 2013, 1:56 AM EDT (05:56 UTC)
Expired: Jul 20, 2013, 2:45 AM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Paulding County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:57 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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 73 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: 1111 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1397 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

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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 20, 1:33 AM EDT, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 1:33 AM EDT, 23 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 19, 4:30 AM EDT, 21 hours 26 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 20, 1:56 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
156 AM EDT SAT JUL 20 2013

GAZ031-200645-
156 AM EDT SAT JUL 20 2013

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HEAVY RAIN IN PAULDING COUNTY
UNTIL 245 AM EDT...

AT 151 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED
SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN FROM AROUND HIRAM TO
DALLAS AND DRAKETOWN...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH.

RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH AND ONE AND A
HALF INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS PAULDING COUNTY THROUGH 245 AM
EDT...INCLUDING AREAS AROUND UNION...HIRAM...DALLAS...NEW GEORGIA...
YORKVILLE...NEW HOPE...CROSS ROADS AND BURNT HICKORY RIDGE. DRIVERS
SHOULD USE CAUTION AS INTENSE RAINFALL WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES AND
CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. THIS RAINFALL WILL ALSO CAUSE
RISING WATER ON SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS AND IN LOW-LYING AREAS.

&&

LAT...LON 3395 8505 3395 8498 3396 8497 3408 8492
      3408 8474 3395 8474 3394 8472 3383 8473
      3379 8492 3382 8504 3390 8503 3391 8505
TIME...MOT...LOC 0553Z 177DEG 6KT 3392 8480

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 20, 5:49 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gordon	41 min
Jul 20, 6:35 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Bartow, Gordon	4 hr
Jul 20, 6:41 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Murray	34 min
Jul 20, 7:12 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Murray	63 min
Jul 20, 1:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gwinnett	28 min
Jul 20, 2:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	White	33 min
Jul 20, 3:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Hall	25 min
Jul 20, 3:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Douglas	35 min
Jul 20, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Hall	52 min
Jul 20, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clayton	46 min
Jul 20, 4:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cobb	41 min
Jul 20, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, Fulton	51 min
Jul 20, 4:41 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Clayton, Cobb, Douglas, Fulton	6 hr
Jul 20, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Heard	33 min
Jul 20, 6:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Heard	41 min
Jul 20, 6:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Union	51 min
Jul 20, 6:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dawson	62 min
Jul 20, 7:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Oglethorpe	61 min
Jul 20, 7:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin	54 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.