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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 29, 2014Union County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at May 29, 2014, 12:09 PM EDT for Union County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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 29, 2014, 12:09 PM EDT (16:09 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 2014, 12:45 PM EDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA

County Union County, GA

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:11 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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 180 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2014-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 496 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2014-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
496 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
917 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
54 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 29, 11:05 AM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 29, 11:05 AM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 29, 12:09 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1209 PM EDT THU MAY 29 2014

GAZ006-008-291645-
1209 PM EDT THU MAY 29 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PEA SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN UNION AND FANNIN COUNTIES UNTIL 1245 PM EDT...

AT 1206 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NOTTELY DAM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH... SMALL HAIL... HEAVY RAIN AND OCCASIONAL
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE LIKELY AS THIS STORM MOVES ACROSS FAR
EASTERN FANNIN AND NORTHWEST UNION COUNTIES THROUGH 1245 PM EDT.
SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE NOTTELY DAM AND IVY
LOG.

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LAT...LON 3497 8394 3484 8409 3490 8420 3499 8416
      3499 8394
TIME...MOT...LOC 1609Z 213DEG 5KT 3494 8411

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 8:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCToombs43 min
May 28, 8:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCToombs51 min
May 28, 8:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCTwiggs47 min
May 28, 8:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCEmanuel44 min
May 28, 9:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCForsyth39 min
May 29, 1:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCJackson41 min
May 29, 2:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCWilkes49 min
May 29, 2:24 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBanks51 min
May 29, 2:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHall52 min
May 29, 2:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCJackson34 min
May 29, 3:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCWilkes43 min
May 29, 3:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCFannin31 min
May 29, 6:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCarroll27 min
May 29, 6:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCWhitfield29 min
May 29, 7:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCGordon25 min
May 29, 7:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDodge, Wilcox47 min
May 29, 7:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMurray46 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.