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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 19, 2013, 8:49 PM EDT for Upson County, Georgia. It was in force for 41 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 19, 2013, 8:49 PM EDT (00:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2013, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Upson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:52 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 00:00Z, 0.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1503 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 675 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS82 KFFC 200049
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
849 PM EDT MON AUG 19 2013
GAZ069-200130-
849 PM EDT MON AUG 19 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HEAVY RAIN IN UPSON COUNTY UNTIL
930 PM EDT...
AT 843 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
SHOW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN FROM AROUND HANNAHS
MILL THROUGH THOMASTON TO SOUTH OF THOMASTON. THESE STORMS WERE
NEARLY STATIONARY.
RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS
AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS AND STREETS ACROSS UPSON
COUNTY...INCLUDING AREAS AROUND REDBONE CROSSROADS...THE
ROCK...ROWLAND...HANNAHS MILL...ATWATER...CREST...SUNNYSIDE AND
THOMASTON. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS...FORESTLANDS AND FARMLANDS
ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS ARE SUBJECT TO MINOR FLOODING.
&&
LAT...LON 3298 8446 3297 8415 3276 8422 3272 8421
3274 8424 3273 8425 3276 8430 3276 8433
3279 8435 3277 8436 3278 8438 3284 8442
3283 8445 3290 8448
TIME...MOT...LOC 0047Z 139DEG 0KT 3294 8429 3283 8433
3277 8432
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 8:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taylor, Upson | 40 min |
| Aug 19, 8:29 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | FFC | Toombs | 6 hr |
| Aug 19, 8:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson | 38 min |
| Aug 19, 9:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Upson | 6 hr |
| Aug 19, 9:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge, Wilcox | 48 min |
| Aug 19, 10:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade, Walker | 52 min |
| Aug 20, 3:23 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Chattahoochee, Crawford, Crisp and 29 more | 20 hr |
| Aug 20, 12:31 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Dodge, Telfair, Wilcox | 5 days |
| Aug 20, 7:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 38 min |
| Aug 20, 7:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Sumter | 25 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.