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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2014, 9:13 AM EDT for Jefferson County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 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
- Aug 2, 2014, 9:13 AM EDT (13:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2014, 10:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Jefferson County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -204 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 657 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS82 KFFC 021313
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
913 AM EDT SAT AUG 2 2014
GAZ074-076-084-021400-
913 AM EDT SAT AUG 2 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HEAVY RAIN IN WASHINGTON...
WILKINSON AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES UNTIL 1000 AM EDT...
AT 909 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM LOUISVILLE TO NICKLESVILLE...MOVING EAST AT
10 MPH.
RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS
AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES ACROSS
WASHINGTON...WILKINSON AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES...INCLUDING AREAS
AROUND NICKLESVILLE...ALLENTOWN...LOUISVILLE...RIDDLEVILLE...
DAVISBORO...HARRISON...WADLEY...BARTOW...PRINGLE AND MOXLEY.
ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS
AND STREAMS ARE SUBJECT TO MINOR FLOODING.
&&
LAT...LON 3291 8227 3280 8250 3282 8256 3278 8266
3279 8270 3277 8276 3280 8278 3281 8282
3276 8295 3270 8296 3259 8322 3260 8324
3270 8329 3309 8244 3306 8228
TIME...MOT...LOC 1313Z 270DEG 7KT 3297 8241 3282 8271
3265 8312
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 10:28 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jefferson | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 2:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa | 55 min |
| Aug 2, 3:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Towns | 57 min |
| Aug 2, 3:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dawson, Pickens | 57 min |
| Aug 2, 3:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Murray | 60 min |
| Aug 2, 3:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Towns | 52 min |
| Aug 2, 4:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dawson, Pickens | 60 min |
| Aug 2, 4:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gilmer, Union | 46 min |
| Aug 2, 4:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pickens | 32 min |
| Aug 2, 5:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pickens, Union | 49 min |
| Aug 2, 5:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Gordon | 4 hr |
| Aug 2, 6:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Union | 60 min |
| Aug 2, 7:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Floyd | 42 min |
| Aug 2, 7:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin | 50 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.