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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 28, 2014Houston County, Pulaski County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 28, 2014, 7:21 PM EDT for Houston County, Pulaski County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 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 28, 2014, 7:21 PM EDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2014, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

Counties Houston County, GA, Pulaski County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 149 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: 1707 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 901 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

023 
WWUS82 KFFC 282321
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
721 PM EDT MON JUL 28 2014

GAZ093>095-105-107-282345-
721 PM EDT MON JUL 28 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR FREQUENT LIGHTNING IN PULASKI...
PEACH...MACON...DOOLY AND HOUSTON COUNTIES UNTIL 745 PM EDT...

AT 717 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER MEADOWDALE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE PEA SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS
PULASKI...PEACH...MACON...DOOLY AND HOUSTON COUNTIES THROUGH 745 PM
EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE MEADOWDALE...
PERRY...SAINT LOUIS...MOSS OAK...HENDERSON...GROVE PARK...
CLINCHFIELD...ELKO...GROVANIA...UNADILLA...HAYNEVILLE...PULASKI STATE
PRISON...MOCK SPRINGS...WALLACE AND HARTFORD. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL
CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 3214 8360 3219 8366 3220 8366 3243 8393
      3256 8379 3228 8339 3212 8356 3212 8357
TIME...MOT...LOC 2321Z 313DEG 29KT 3243 8378

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 1:59 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Union	46 min
Jul 28, 2:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Catoosa, Walker, Whitfield	29 min
Jul 28, 2:39 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Union, White	51 min
Jul 28, 2:55 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Catoosa, Whitfield	35 min
Jul 28, 3:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Walker, Whitfield	50 min
Jul 28, 3:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Marion	26 min
Jul 28, 3:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel, Johnson	24 min
Jul 28, 3:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Laurens	26 min
Jul 28, 3:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Marion	32 min
Jul 28, 3:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Laurens	31 min
Jul 28, 3:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel	38 min
Jul 28, 4:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Sumter	43 min
Jul 28, 4:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crisp, Sumter	27 min
Jul 28, 4:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Laurens	31 min
Jul 28, 4:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jefferson	35 min
Jul 28, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crisp	33 min
Jul 28, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Sumter	31 min
Jul 28, 5:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Stewart, Webster	45 min
Jul 28, 5:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Laurens	38 min
Jul 28, 7:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel	37 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.