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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 26, 2013, 2:07 PM EDT for White County, Georgia. It was in force for 53 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 26, 2013, 2:07 PM EDT (18:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 2013, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County White County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:08 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 163 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
- 924 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 694 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 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 26, 1:55 PM EDT, 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 1:55 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 26, 4:33 AM EDT, 9 hours 34 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 433 AM EDT FRI JUL 26 2013 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-271000- 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- 433 AM EDT FRI JUL 26 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... A FEW STRONG STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS EASTERN GEORGIA. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED... THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH. SMALL HAIL AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. DISCUSSION... DAYTIME HEATING WILL ALLOW FOR ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON. THE BETTER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL GENERALLY BE ACROSS EASTERN GEORGIA WHERE A WEAK DISTURBANCE MAY HELP ENHANCE CONVECTION. THIS IS ALSO THE AREA THAT HAS A BETTER CHANCE OF A STRONGER STORM. THE MOST LIKELY TIMING FOR THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AFTER MIDNIGHT...WITH A DECREASE IN INSTABILITY...THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD TRANSITION TO SHOWERS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... DISCUSSION... AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA ON SATURDAY...HELPING TO INCREASE SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM CHANCES. A FEW STORMS WITH THIS SYSTEM COULD BECOME STRONG AND THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE WIND. A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE THROUGH THURSDAY HOWEVER CHANCES WILL BE SLIGHTLY HIGHER ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY AS ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AFFECTS GEORGIA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 26, 2:07 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
207 PM EDT FRI JUL 26 2013
GAZ015-016-261900-
207 PM EDT FRI JUL 26 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HEAVY RAIN IN WHITE AND LUMPKIN
COUNTIES UNTIL 300 PM EDT...
AT 204 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM OVER CAMP COLEMAN LAKE THE THUNDERSTORM WAS NEARLY
STATIONARY. DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED THAT 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN
HAS FALLEN OVER THE AREA OVER THE LAST HOUR.
RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS
AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES ACROSS
WHITE AND LUMPKIN COUNTIES...INCLUDING AREAS AROUND QUALATCHEE
LAKE...TURNERS CORNER...UNICOI STATE PARK...ANNA RUBY FALLS AND
HELEN. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF
CREEKS AND STREAMS ARE SUBJECT TO MINOR FLOODING.
&&
LAT...LON 3476 8366 3461 8376 3462 8386 3466 8392
3473 8388 3473 8383 3478 8383 3478 8377
TIME...MOT...LOC 1806Z 198DEG 2KT 3468 8386The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 3:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Butts | 48 min |
| Jul 26, 3:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jasper | 42 min |
| Jul 26, 4:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taliaferro, Wilkes | 44 min |
| Jul 26, 4:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dooly | 45 min |
| Jul 26, 5:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton | 60 min |
| Jul 26, 5:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Oconee | 44 min |
| Jul 26, 6:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lumpkin | 27 min |
| Jul 26, 6:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene | 37 min |
| Jul 26, 6:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hancock | 24 min |
| Jul 26, 7:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Telfair | 45 min |
| Jul 26, 7:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hall | 34 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.