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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 25, 2014Union County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at May 25, 2014, 2:41 PM EDT for Union County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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: May 25, 2014, 2:41 PM EDT (18:41 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2014, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Union County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 173 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: 896 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1112 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 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.

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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 May 25, 7:45 AM EDT, 6 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 7:45 AM EDT, 6 hours 56 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 25, 12:07 PM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 25, 1:52 PM EDT, 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 25, 2:29 PM EDT, 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 25, 2:41 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 1:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	White	23 min
May 25, 2:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Towns, Union, White	35 min
May 25, 2:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Polk	31 min
May 25, 3:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lumpkin, Union, White	35 min
May 25, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Catoosa	28 min
May 25, 3:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	White	23 min
May 25, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hall, Lumpkin, White	32 min
May 25, 4:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fulton	23 min
May 25, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks, Hall	35 min
May 25, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	DeKalb	29 min
May 25, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin	35 min
May 25, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks, Hall, Madison	31 min
May 25, 5:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gwinnett	24 min
May 25, 5:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Barrow, Walton	25 min
May 25, 5:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Newton	32 min
May 25, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin, Union	44 min
May 25, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Madison	42 min
May 25, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Gwinnett, Walton	34 min
May 25, 5:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel	34 min
May 25, 6:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel	50 min
May 25, 6:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Clarke, Greene, Jackson, Morgan, Oconee and 1 more	34 min
May 25, 6:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel	40 min
May 25, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clarke, Greene, Jackson, Madison, Oconee, Oglethorpe	45 min
May 25, 7:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Candler	12 min
May 25, 7:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Oglethorpe, Wilkes	48 min
May 25, 7:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Greene	32 min
May 25, 7:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Hancock, Taliaferro	41 min
May 25, 7:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Jasper, Jones, Putnam	35 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.