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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Apr 4, 2014, 8:34 AM EDT for 7 counties in 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
- Apr 4, 2014, 8:34 AM EDT (12:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 2014, 9:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Bartow County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Murray County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Whitfield County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:34 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1263 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 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 Apr 4, 7:50 AM EDT, 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 4, 7:50 AM EDT, 44 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 519 AM EDT FRI APR 4 2014 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-050930- 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- 519 AM EDT FRI APR 4 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND SOME STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE. STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE MAIN THREAT...ALTHOUGH ISOLATED TORNADOES CANNOT BE RULED OUT. DISCUSSION... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH A COLD FRONT WILL PROGRESS THROUGH THE STATE TODAY. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BE STRONG TO SEVERE WITH THE BEST CHANCES FOR SEVERE STORMS ACROSS THE NORTHWEST PORTION OF THE AREA... GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM COLUMBUS TO ATHENS AND IN THE MID-MORNING TO AFTERNOON PERIOD. STRONG ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE INTO TONIGHT... MAINLY ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA...BUT THEY SHOULD BE ON A WEAKENING TREND BY THEN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... THE FRONT WILL LINGER ACROSS SOUTH GEORGIA ON SATURDAY AND THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FOR SATURDAY IN FAR SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE NEXT SYSTEM WILL BRING A RETURN OF BETTER CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY ACROSS CENTRAL AND WEST NORTH GEORGIA SUNDAY INTO MONDAY. ALTHOUGH THERE ARE STILL DIFFERENCES IN THE MODELS CONCERNING THIS SYSTEM...THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL NEED TO BE MONITORED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST INFORMATION TODAY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION ACROSS NORTH AND WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 4, 7:49 AM EDT, 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
749 AM EDT FRI APR 4 2014
GAZ001>005-011-012-019-041230-
749 AM EDT FRI APR 4 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR 45 MPH WINDS IN WHITFIELD...
WALKER...MURRAY...CATOOSA...CHATTOOGA...DADE...FLOYD AND GORDON
COUNTIES UNTIL 830 AM EDT...
AT 747 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEW ENGLAND TO 22 MILES WEST OF
CHATTOOGAVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH.
WIND GUSTS OF 45 MPH ARE LIKELY AS THESE STORMS MOVE ACROSS
WHITFIELD...WALKER...MURRAY...CATOOSA...CHATTOOGA...DADE...FLOYD AND
GORDON COUNTIES THROUGH 830 AM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF
THESE STORMS INCLUDE COLE CITY...HOOKER...STEPHENSVILLE...RISING
FAWN...NEW ENGLAND...TRENTON...MORGANVILLE...WILDWOOD...CLOUDLAND
CANYON STATE PARK...CEDAR GROVE...CLOUDLAND...COOPER HEIGHTS...
CHATTANOOGA VALLEY...LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN AND MENLO.
&&
LAT...LON 3499 8466 3478 8467 3457 8477 3442 8502
3425 8546 3498 8561
TIME...MOT...LOC 1149Z 244DEG 55KT 3493 8545 3452 8558
3425 8578Special weather statement, Apr 4, 8:34 AM EDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 7:49 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Gordon, Murray, Walker and 1 more | 41 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Georgia, 2014Every special weather statement in 2014
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.