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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 8, 2014Murray County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2014, 4:13 AM EDT for Murray 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 8, 2014, 4:13 AM EDT (08:13 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 2014, 5:00 AM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA

County Murray County, GA

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 152 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2014-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 749 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2014-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
749 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2103 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

609 
WWUS82 KFFC 080813
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
413 AM EDT FRI AUG 8 2014

GAZ004-005-007-012-080900-
413 AM EDT FRI AUG 8 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR 45 MPH WINDS IN WHITFIELD...
MURRAY...GILMER AND GORDON COUNTIES UNTIL 500 AM EDT...

AT 409 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NICKELSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 45 MPH ARE LIKELY AS THESE STORMS MOVE ACROSS
WHITFIELD...MURRAY...GILMER AND GORDON COUNTIES THROUGH 500 AM EDT.
SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE AUDUBON...
NICKELSVILLE...TILTON...NORTH GEORGIA SPEEDWAY...CARTERS...FORT
MOUNTAIN STATE PARK...CHATSWORTH AND RAMHURST.

&&

LAT...LON 3486 8468 3461 8459 3454 8488 3471 8497
TIME...MOT...LOC 0814Z 245DEG 10KT 3463 8486

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 8:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCGwinnett29 min
Aug 7, 8:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHenry40 min
Aug 7, 8:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDeKalb46 min
Aug 7, 9:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHenry45 min
Aug 7, 9:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCWalton45 min
Aug 7, 9:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCFloyd67 min
Aug 7, 9:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCButts, Henry31 min
Aug 7, 10:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCoweta39 min
Aug 7, 11:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHenry38 min
Aug 7, 11:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHenry46 min
Aug 8, 5:00 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCGilmer45 min
Aug 8, 8:00 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBanks30 min
Aug 8, 12:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCGilmer, Pickens48 min
Aug 8, 12:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCPaulding45 min
Aug 8, 1:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCPaulding33 min
Aug 8, 1:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCFayette43 min
Aug 8, 1:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCobb, Douglas, Paulding39 min
Aug 8, 1:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCPaulding36 min
Aug 8, 1:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBaldwin, Jones, Twiggs, Wilkinson34 min
Aug 8, 2:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCherokee, Cobb, Douglas, Fulton49 min
Aug 8, 2:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton39 min
Aug 8, 2:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHenry33 min
Aug 8, 2:29 PM EDTTornado WarningFFCCherokee, Cobb18 min
Aug 8, 2:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHenry36 min
Aug 8, 2:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCClayton, DeKalb, Henry, Rockdale45 min
Aug 8, 2:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBaldwin24 min
Aug 8, 2:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett, Rockdale46 min
Aug 8, 3:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDouglas28 min
Aug 8, 3:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCNewton35 min
Aug 8, 3:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMonroe26 min
Aug 8, 3:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCPutnam23 min
Aug 8, 3:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGwinnett, Rockdale, Walton32 min
Aug 8, 3:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCClayton30 min
Aug 8, 3:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBarrow, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson, Newton, Oconee and 1 more42 min
Aug 8, 3:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCClayton47 min
Aug 8, 4:08 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCGreene, Hancock, Jasper, Morgan, Oconee, Putnam52 min
Aug 8, 4:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGreene, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Putnam, Taliaferro41 min
Aug 8, 4:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCJackson38 min
Aug 8, 4:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBaldwin, Jones49 min
Aug 8, 4:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCClarke, Oconee29 min
Aug 8, 4:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCWarren52 min
Aug 8, 4:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCToombs48 min
Aug 8, 4:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCGlascock42 min
Aug 8, 4:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHancock, Taliaferro, Warren66 min
Aug 8, 4:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBanks, Clarke, Madison64 min
Aug 8, 5:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGreene, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Wilkes59 min
Aug 8, 5:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCTreutlen50 min
Aug 8, 5:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCWilkinson40 min
Aug 8, 5:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCTaliaferro46 min
Aug 8, 6:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCJohnson53 min
Aug 8, 6:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBleckley, Houston49 min
Aug 8, 6:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHaralson45 min
Aug 8, 6:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCTwiggs54 min
Aug 8, 6:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCWashington63 min
Aug 8, 7:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCarroll, Paulding38 min
Aug 8, 7:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDade45 min
Aug 8, 7:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll25 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.