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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2014, 4:44 PM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 31 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 7, 2014, 4:44 PM EDT (20:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2014, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Bartow County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Gordon County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 539 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1316 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 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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WWUS82 KFFC 072044
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
444 PM EDT THU AUG 7 2014
GAZ011-012-019-020-072115-
444 PM EDT THU AUG 7 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PEA SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN BARTOW...CHATTOOGA...FLOYD AND GORDON COUNTIES UNTIL 515 PM EDT...
AT 443 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM SUMMERVILLE TO CASSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 5
MPH.
THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE PEA SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS THEY MOVE
ACROSS BARTOW...CHATTOOGA...FLOYD AND GORDON COUNTIES THROUGH 515 PM
EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE KINGSTON...
CASSVILLE...ROME...COOSA...SHANNON...PINSON...ARMUCHEE...HOLLAND...
TIDINGS...JAMES H. FLOYD STATE PARK...LYERLY...BERRYTON...
SUMMERVILLE...MENLO AND CLOUDLAND. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING
OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3458 8527 3456 8472 3438 8467 3418 8469
3423 8545 3437 8547 3457 8551
TIME...MOT...LOC 2045Z 248DEG 4KT 3451 8538 3444 8513
3429 8486
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 5:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gordon | 48 min |
| Aug 7, 5:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 29 min |
| Aug 7, 6:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Whitfield | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 6:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton | 31 min |
| Aug 7, 7:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fulton | 50 min |
| Aug 7, 7:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 44 min |
| Aug 7, 7:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry | 41 min |
| Aug 7, 7:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gwinnett | 23 min |
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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.