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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 10, 2014Crawford County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 10, 2014, 2:38 PM EDT for Crawford County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 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: Jul 10, 2014, 2:38 PM EDT (18:38 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2014, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Crawford County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:37 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 87 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: 347 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 734 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 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 Jul 10, 2:05 PM EDT, 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 2:05 PM EDT, 33 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 10, 5:00 AM EDT, 9 hours 38 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
500 AM EDT THU JUL 10 2014

GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086-
089>098-102>113-111000-
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-
500 AM EDT THU JUL 10 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL
GEORGIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...

...ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS
   AFTERNOON AND EVENING...

WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED...
STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN.
THE MOST LIKELY TIME WILL BE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EACH DAY THROUGH MONDAY.
THE MAIN HAZARDS WILL BE GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY
RAIN.

ANOTHER COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE AREA TUESDAY INTO
WEDNESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY ON TUESDAY WITH CHANCES
CONTINUING ON WEDNESDAY...MOST SO OVER CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE MAIN
HAZARDS WILL BE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY
RAIN.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT REQUESTED BUT SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO
SUBMIT STRONG STORM REPORTS THROUGH THE WEB BY GOING TO
WEATHER.GOV/ATLANTA.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 10, 2:38 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
238 PM EDT THU JUL 10 2014

GAZ081-101915-
238 PM EDT THU JUL 10 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR FREQUENT LIGHTNING IN CRAWFORD
COUNTY UNTIL 315 PM EDT...

AT 232 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER MUSELLA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DIME SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS
CRAWFORD COUNTY THROUGH 315 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF
THIS STORM INCLUDE MUSELLA...KNOXVILLE...ROBERTA...SANDY POINT AND
JACK BROWN ESTATES. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON
ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 3269 8409 3285 8409 3285 8398 3285 8390
      3282 8389 3280 8386 3275 8383 3270 8375
      3269 8375 3267 8380
TIME...MOT...LOC 1838Z 271DEG 18KT 3278 8398

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 8:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Newton	36 min
Jul 9, 9:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb, Twiggs	49 min
Jul 9, 10:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkinson	44 min
Jul 10, 3:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Spalding	29 min
Jul 10, 4:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Houston	34 min
Jul 10, 4:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Hancock	37 min
Jul 10, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Twiggs	33 min
Jul 10, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilcox	47 min
Jul 10, 5:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkinson	27 min
Jul 10, 5:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Pike	23 min
Jul 10, 6:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jackson, Madison	27 min
Jul 10, 7:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Telfair	43 min
Jul 10, 7:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fulton	26 min
Jul 10, 7:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Carroll	49 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.