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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 7, 2013Talbot County, Upson County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2013, 3:25 PM EDT for Talbot County, Upson County, Georgia. It was in force for 65 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: Aug 7, 2013, 3:25 PM EDT (19:25 UTC)
Expired: Aug 7, 2013, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

Counties Talbot County, GA, Upson County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 63 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: 1269 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 492 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 25 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.

259 
WWUS82 KFFC 071925
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
325 PM EDT WED AUG 7 2013

GAZ069-079-080-072030-
325 PM EDT WED AUG 7 2013

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HEAVY RAIN IN TALBOT...UPSON AND
TAYLOR COUNTIES UNTIL 430 PM EDT...

AT 319 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN FROM HANNAHS MILL TO OLIVE 
BRANCH...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES 
PER HOUR ARE LIKELY.

RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS
AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES ACROSS
TALBOT...UPSON AND TAYLOR COUNTIES...INCLUDING AREAS AROUND
ROWLAND...OLIVE BRANCH...HANNAHS MILL...ATWATER...CREST...
SUNNYSIDE...SPREWELL BLUFF STATE PARK...PLEASANT HILL...BIG LAZER
CREEK WMA...TALBOTTON...THOMASTON...PO BIDDY CROSSROADS...THE ROCK...
REDBONE CROSSROADS AND WESLEY CHURCH. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS
AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS ARE SUBJECT TO
MINOR FLOODING.

&&

LAT...LON 3297 8413 3278 8419 3261 8438 3264 8467
      3275 8455 3298 8442
TIME...MOT...LOC 1925Z 264DEG 7KT 3294 8433 3276 8444
          3266 8460

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 6, 8:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gordon	52 min
Aug 7, 2:38 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Dawson, Lumpkin	6 hr
Aug 7, 3:34 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Dawson, Pickens	6 hr
Aug 7, 5:24 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Dawson, Gilmer, Pickens	6 hr
Aug 7, 5:30 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Dawson, Forsyth	15 hr
Aug 7, 6:06 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	FFC	Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Catoosa and 50 more	48 hr
Aug 7, 6:53 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Gilmer	8 hr
Aug 7, 7:01 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Gordon	6 hr
Aug 7, 8:49 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth	6 hr
Aug 7, 9:18 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Gilmer	5 hr
Aug 7, 9:18 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Gilmer	5 hr
Aug 7, 11:05 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Coweta	55 min
Aug 7, 11:14 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Gilmer, Pickens	6 hr
Aug 7, 11:17 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Coweta	6 hr
Aug 7, 11:36 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Forsyth	54 min
Aug 7, 11:58 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Forsyth	17 hr
Aug 7, 12:13 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Cherokee	28 hr
Aug 7, 12:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gwinnett	57 min
Aug 7, 12:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Barrow, Jackson, Madison	78 min
Aug 7, 1:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Walker	64 min
Aug 7, 1:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Banks, Hall	59 min
Aug 7, 2:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clarke, Greene, Madison, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe and 1 more	66 min
Aug 7, 2:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	FFC	Cherokee	6 hr
Aug 7, 2:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow	66 min
Aug 7, 3:03 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Cherokee	25 hr
Aug 7, 3:03 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Forsyth, Fulton	43 hr
Aug 7, 3:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Greene, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Wilkes	59 min
Aug 7, 3:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gordon	65 min
Aug 7, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Catoosa, Dade, Walker, Whitfield	67 min
Aug 7, 4:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Hancock, Taliaferro, Warren	57 min
Aug 7, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin, Bibb, Jones	61 min
Aug 7, 4:57 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	FFC	Banks	12 hr
Aug 7, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gilmer, Gordon, Pickens	45 min
Aug 7, 5:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattooga	56 min
Aug 7, 5:08 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	FFC	Gilmer, Pickens	12 hr
Aug 7, 5:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Paulding, Polk	47 min
Aug 7, 6:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Haralson	64 min
Aug 7, 6:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Floyd	56 min
Aug 7, 6:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts	59 min
Aug 7, 7:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Carroll	59 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.