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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jun 16, 2014, 1:30 PM EDT for Towns County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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 16, 2014, 1:30 PM EDT (17:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2014, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Towns County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:32 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 354 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1257 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 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 Jun 16, 10:50 AM EDT, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 10:50 AM EDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1150 AM EDT MON JUN 16 2014 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-170830- 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- 1150 AM EDT MON JUN 16 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. SOME STORMS MAY BE STRONG PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING... AND LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED EACH DAY...MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT REQUESTED BUT SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SUBMIT REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH THE WEB BY GOING TO WEATHER.GOV/ATLANTA.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 1:20 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
130 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2014
GAZ009-161800-
130 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR DIME SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN TOWNS COUNTY UNTIL 200 PM EDT...
AT 126 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER THE BLUE MOUNTAIN SHELTER...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.
THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DIME SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS
TOWNS COUNTY THROUGH 200 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM INCLUDE THE BLUE MOUNTAIN SHELTER...BRASSTOWN BALD AND MOUNTAIN
SCENE. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND
RISING WATER ON CREEKS AND STREAMS.
THESE WIND GUSTS MAY PRODUCE MINOR DAMAGE TO TREE LIMBS AND BLOW
LIGHT...UNSECURED OBJECTS AROUND.
&&
LAT...LON 3488 8365 3482 8365 3480 8367 3479 8377
3482 8378 3487 8381 3491 8380
TIME...MOT...LOC 1729Z 213DEG 4KT 3482 8377The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 8:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry | 24 min |
| Jun 16, 1:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | White | 25 min |
| Jun 16, 1:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lumpkin | 62 min |
| Jun 16, 2:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Fannin | 6 hr |
| Jun 16, 2:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Union | 38 min |
| Jun 16, 3:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 43 min |
| Jun 16, 4:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Putnam | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 5:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Houston | 50 min |
| Jun 16, 5:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dooly | 39 min |
| Jun 16, 5:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb | 52 min |
| Jun 16, 6:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lumpkin | 36 min |
| Jun 16, 7:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks | 28 min |
| Jun 16, 7:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks | 63 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.