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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 6, 2014Chattooga County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jun 6, 2014, 12:55 PM EDT for Chattooga County, Georgia. It was in force for 50 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 6, 2014, 12:55 PM EDT (16:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2014, 1:45 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Chattooga County, GA

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:58 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, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 155 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: 634 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 897 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.1

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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 6, 10:14 AM EDT, 2 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 10:14 AM EDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 6, 1:20 AM EDT, 11 hours 35 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 6, 12:54 PM EDT, 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 12:55 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1255 PM EDT FRI JUN 6 2014

GAZ001-002-011-061745-
1255 PM EDT FRI JUN 6 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR 45 MPH WINDS IN WALKER...
CHATTOOGA AND DADE COUNTIES UNTIL 145 PM EDT...

AT 1253 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RISING FAWN...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 45 MPH ARE LIKELY AS THIS STORM MOVES ACROSS WALKER...
CHATTOOGA AND DADE COUNTIES THROUGH 145 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE
PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE RISING FAWN...CLOUDLAND...MENLO...TRION...
JAMES H. FLOYD STATE PARK...LYERLY...SUMMERVILLE...BERRYTON...
CHATTOOGAVILLE...HOLLAND AND TIDINGS.

&&

LAT...LON 3480 8555 3468 8542 3443 8520 3440 8525
      3438 8533 3428 8539 3428 8544 3430 8548
      3475 8557 3478 8557
TIME...MOT...LOC 1655Z 320DEG 28KT 3464 8560

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 8:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Banks, Barrow, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson and 2 more	31 min
Jun 5, 8:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Heard	27 min
Jun 5, 8:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Laurens, Montgomery, Treutlen	25 min
Jun 5, 8:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clarke, Jackson, Madison, Morgan, Newton, Oconee and 3 more	29 min
Jun 5, 8:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts, Coweta, Heard, Henry, Lamar, Pike and 1 more	27 min
Jun 5, 9:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts, Greene, Jasper, Jones, Madison, Monroe and 3 more	28 min
Jun 5, 9:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Greene, Hancock, Taliaferro, Wilkes	33 min
Jun 5, 10:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Coweta, Fayette	25 min
Jun 5, 10:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Coweta, Fayette	36 min
Jun 5, 10:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fayette, Henry, Pike, Spalding, Upson	28 min
Jun 5, 10:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Henry, Spalding	26 min
Jun 5, 10:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb, Crawford, Jones, Lamar, Monroe	62 min
Jun 5, 11:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb, Bleckley, Houston, Pulaski, Twiggs	60 min
Jun 5, 11:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Bleckley, Dodge, Houston, Laurens, Peach and 2 more	48 min
Jun 6, 12:36 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery, Treutlen	39 min
Jun 6, 12:45 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb, Twiggs, Wilkinson	45 min
Jun 6, 12:46 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb, Twiggs	44 min
Jun 6, 1:11 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel, Johnson	49 min
Jun 6, 1:32 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jefferson	43 min
Jun 6, 1:47 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Washington, Wilkinson	43 min
Jun 6, 2:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Laurens	35 min
Jun 6, 2:49 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Montgomery, Treutlen, Wheeler	26 min
Jun 6, 2:54 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Laurens	51 min
Jun 6, 3:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Toombs	35 min
Jun 6, 3:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Laurens	50 min
Jun 6, 3:53 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dodge	37 min
Jun 6, 4:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Telfair, Wheeler	46 min
Jun 6, 4:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Toombs	33 min
Jun 6, 2:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Newton, Rockdale	31 min
Jun 6, 3:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Banks	27 min
Jun 6, 3:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Henry	32 min
Jun 6, 3:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Walton	34 min
Jun 6, 3:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts	33 min
Jun 6, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Walton	30 min
Jun 6, 3:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Jasper, Monroe	52 min
Jun 6, 3:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Meriwether, Pike	34 min
Jun 6, 4:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fayette	28 min
Jun 6, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Hancock, Jones, Putnam, Wilkinson	44 min
Jun 6, 4:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Troup	25 min
Jun 6, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Jones, Twiggs, Wilkinson	46 min
Jun 6, 4:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Troup	25 min
Jun 6, 4:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Laurens	32 min
Jun 6, 4:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Upson	37 min
Jun 6, 4:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Coweta	51 min
Jun 6, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether, Troup	49 min
Jun 6, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge, Laurens	28 min
Jun 6, 5:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens, Treutlen	26 min
Jun 6, 5:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Coweta	27 min
Jun 6, 5:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens, Toombs, Treutlen	46 min
Jun 6, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens	44 min
Jun 6, 5:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taylor	31 min
Jun 6, 6:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Lamar, Pike	28 min
Jun 6, 6:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon, Taylor	51 min
Jun 6, 6:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Monroe	26 min
Jun 6, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Toombs, Treutlen	40 min
Jun 6, 6:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	DeKalb	25 min
Jun 6, 6:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Telfair, Wheeler	67 min
Jun 6, 6:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly	49 min
Jun 6, 6:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jones, Monroe	32 min
Jun 6, 7:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Telfair	44 min
Jun 6, 7:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilcox	48 min
Jun 6, 7:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilcox	47 min
Jun 6, 7:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Muscogee	31 min
Jun 6, 7:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crisp, Wilcox	42 min
Jun 6, 7:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crisp, Telfair, Wilcox	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.