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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2014, 6:13 PM EDT for Whitfield 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 7, 2014, 6:13 PM EDT (22:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2014, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Whitfield County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 171 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 072213
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
613 PM EDT THU AUG 7 2014
GAZ002-004-005-072300-
613 PM EDT THU AUG 7 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PEA SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN WHITFIELD...WALKER AND MURRAY COUNTIES UNTIL 700 PM EDT...
AT 612 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER DALTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE PEA SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS
WHITFIELD...WALKER AND MURRAY COUNTIES THROUGH 700 PM EDT. SOME
LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE MILL CREEK...ROCKY
FACE...DALTON...TUNNEL HILL...DAWNVILLE...ETON...CRANDALL...SUMAC...
BEAVERDALE...VARNELL AND COHUTTA. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING
OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3487 8470 3467 8495 3474 8514 3482 8508
3482 8506 3485 8506 3487 8505 3488 8501
3491 8502 3499 8496 3499 8489
TIME...MOT...LOC 2213Z 218DEG 9KT 3476 8500
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 4:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow, Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon | 31 min |
| 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, 6:59 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.