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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 27, 2014Union County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jun 27, 2014, 2:26 PM EDT for Union County, Georgia. It was in force for 79 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 27, 2014, 2:26 PM EDT (18:26 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2014, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 79 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Union County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:28 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 186 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 659 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -7 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 Jun 27, 1:33 PM EDT, 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 1:33 PM EDT, 53 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 5:02 AM EDT, 9 hours 24 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 2:26 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
226 PM EDT FRI JUN 27 2014

GAZ006>008-015-271945-
226 PM EDT FRI JUN 27 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HEAVY RAIN IN UNION...LUMPKIN...
FANNIN AND GILMER COUNTIES UNTIL 345 PM EDT...

AT 223 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORMS OVER HAWK MOUNTAIN SHELTER...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.
DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER
THIS AREA.  IF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO TRAIN OVER THIS AREA...A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING MAY BE NEEDED.

RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS
AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES ACROSS
UNION...LUMPKIN...FANNIN AND GILMER COUNTIES...INCLUDING AREAS AROUND
MARION...PISGAH...BLACK GAP SHELTER...STOVER CREEK SHELTER...SPRINGER
MOUNTAIN SHELTER...DIAL...MARGRET...HAWK MOUNTAIN SHELTER...CAMP
MERRILL...JONES CREEK...GADDISTOWN...BLOOD MOUNTAIN SHELTER...TURNERS
CORNER...PORTER SPRINGS AND WOODS HOLE SHELTER. ADDITIONALLY...
COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS ARE
SUBJECT TO MINOR FLOODING.

&&

LAT...LON 3492 8391 3490 8381 3487 8381 3480 8378
      3478 8383 3473 8383 3472 8386 3463 8387
      3457 8419 3462 8419 3460 8425 3457 8426
      3459 8431 3471 8436 3500 8397
TIME...MOT...LOC 1825Z 267DEG 4KT 3470 8415

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 2:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Towns	77 min
Jun 27, 3:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Lumpkin	81 min
Jun 27, 3:25 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Dawson, Lumpkin	6 hr
Jun 27, 4:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Greene	26 min
Jun 27, 4:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Murray	30 min
Jun 27, 6:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gilmer	30 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Georgia, 2014 Every special weather statement in 2014

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.