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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 31, 2013, 12:21 PM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 24 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 31, 2013, 12:21 PM EDT (16:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2013, 12:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Dooly County, GA, Macon County, GA, Schley County, GA, Sumter County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:21 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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 516 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 734 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
463
WWUS82 KFFC 311621
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1221 PM EDT WED JUL 31 2013
GAZ092-093-104-105-311645-
1221 PM EDT WED JUL 31 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HEAVY RAIN IN SUMTER...SCHLEY...
MACON AND DOOLY COUNTIES UNTIL 1245 PM EDT...
AT 1216 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER BARTLETT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS
AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES ACROSS
SUMTER...SCHLEY...MACON AND DOOLY COUNTIES...INCLUDING AREAS AROUND
WHITEWATER STATE PARK...FOUNTAINVILLE...BARTLETT...GARDEN VALLEY...
IDEAL...WALLS CROSSING...MURRAYS CROSSROADS...ELLAVILLE...LA
CROSSE...SHILOH...MONTEZUMA...OGLETHORPE...BUMPHEAD...CLEARVIEW AND
ANDERSONVILLE. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS ARE SUBJECT TO MINOR FLOODING.
&&
LAT...LON 3223 8441 3247 8411 3215 8368 3203 8387
3203 8392 3203 8396 3198 8394 3191 8407
3191 8416
TIME...MOT...LOC 1621Z 320DEG 23KT 3230 8413
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 6:20 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 55 min |
| Jul 31, 7:38 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lamar, Pike, Upson | 37 min |
| Jul 31, 8:13 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lamar, Monroe, Pike, Upson | 62 min |
| Jul 31, 9:12 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crawford, Monroe, Upson | 63 min |
| Jul 31, 9:56 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 49 min |
| Jul 31, 10:25 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Paulding | 35 min |
| Jul 31, 11:09 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion, Muscogee, Taylor | 21 min |
| Jul 31, 11:17 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton and 2 more | 43 min |
| Jul 31, 11:36 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Macon, Marion, Schley | 39 min |
| Jul 31, 12:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Macon, Sumter | 34 min |
| Jul 31, 12:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris, Talbot | 24 min |
| Jul 31, 1:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge | 35 min |
| Jul 31, 1:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp, Pulaski, Wilcox | 37 min |
| Jul 31, 3:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Stewart | 56 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.