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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 5, 2014Chattooga County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jun 5, 2014, 5:06 AM EDT for Chattooga County, Georgia. It was in force for 54 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: Jun 5, 2014, 5:06 AM EDT (09:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2014, 6:00 AM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Chattooga County, GA

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 221 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: 1296 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1296 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 3.6

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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 Jun 5, 4:08 AM EDT, 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 4:08 AM EDT, 58 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 3:32 AM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 5, 4:35 AM EDT, 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 4:54 AM EDT, 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 5:06 AM 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
Jun 5, 4:35 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dade	55 min
Jun 5, 4:54 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Catoosa, Walker	51 min
Jun 5, 5:26 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Whitfield	49 min
Jun 5, 5:32 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Floyd	58 min
Jun 5, 6:37 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Paulding, Polk	38 min
Jun 5, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin	29 min
Jun 5, 3:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Jones, Wilkinson	35 min
Jun 5, 3:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jefferson	24 min
Jun 5, 3:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkinson	30 min
Jun 5, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattooga	65 min
Jun 5, 5:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dade, Walker	23 min
Jun 5, 6:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Floyd	30 min
Jun 5, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon	49 min
Jun 5, 6:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Murray	26 min
Jun 5, 7:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Walker, Whitfield	59 min
Jun 5, 7:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd, Haralson, Polk	52 min
Jun 5, 7:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cherokee, Pickens	32 min
Jun 5, 7:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Floyd, Gordon	36 min
Jun 5, 7:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Paulding	31 min
Jun 5, 7:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fannin, Gilmer, Murray	37 min
Jun 5, 7:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Carroll, Douglas	51 min
Jun 5, 7:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dawson, Forsyth, Fulton, Hall	32 min
Jun 5, 7:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall	42 min
Jun 5, 7:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clayton	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.