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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2014, 8:00 AM EDT for Banks County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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, 8:00 AM EDT (12:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2014, 8:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Banks County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 617 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1163 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Atlanta, GA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Aug 8, 7:34 AM EDT, 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 7:34 AM EDT, 26 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 8, 6:12 AM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 612 AM EDT FRI AUG 8 2014 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-091200- BALDWIN-BANKS-BARROW-BARTOW-BIBB-BLECKLEY-BUTTS-CARROLL-CATOOSA- CHATTAHOOCHEE-CHATTOOGA-CHEROKEE-CLARKE-CLAYTON-COBB-COWETA- CRAWFORD-CRISP-DADE-DAWSON-DEKALB-DODGE-DOOLY-DOUGLAS-EMANUEL- FANNIN-FAYETTE-FLOYD-FORSYTH-GILMER-GLASCOCK-GORDON-GREENE- GWINNETT-HALL-HANCOCK-HARALSON-HARRIS-HEARD-HENRY-HOUSTON-JACKSON- JASPER-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-JONES-LAMAR-LAURENS-LUMPKIN-MACON- MADISON-MARION-MERIWETHER-MONROE-MONTGOMERY-MORGAN-MURRAY- MUSCOGEE-NEWTON-NORTH FULTON-OCONEE-OGLETHORPE-PAULDING-PEACH- PICKENS-PIKE-POLK-PULASKI-PUTNAM-ROCKDALE-SCHLEY-SOUTH FULTON- SPALDING-STEWART-SUMTER-TALBOT-TALIAFERRO-TAYLOR-TELFAIR-TOOMBS- TOWNS-TREUTLEN-TROUP-TWIGGS-UNION-UPSON-WALKER-WALTON-WARREN- WASHINGTON-WEBSTER-WHEELER-WHITE-WHITFIELD-WILCOX-WILKES- WILKINSON- 612 AM EDT FRI AUG 8 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS MUCH OF GEORGIA TODAY. THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AND GUSTY WINDS. DAMAGING WIND GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE IN ANY ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EACH DAY THIS WEEKEND AS A FRONTAL BOUNDARY BECOMES STATIONARY ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA AND COMBINES WITH PASSING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES. THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 4:13 AM EDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 5:00 AM EDT, 3 hours before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
500 AM EDT FRI AUG 8 2014
GAZ005-007-080945-
500 AM EDT FRI AUG 8 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PEA SIZED HAIL AND 50 MPH WINDS
IN MURRAY AND GILMER COUNTIES UNTIL 545 AM EDT...
AT 458 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER RAMHURST...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
WIND GUSTS OF 50 MPH ARE LIKELY AS THIS STORM MOVES ACROSS MURRAY AND
GILMER COUNTIES THROUGH 545 AM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE
STORM INCLUDE CARTERS...RAMHURST...FORT MOUNTAIN STATE PARK...TAILS
CREEK...MOUNTAINTOWN...EAST ELLIJAY...ELLIJAY AND CHERRY LOG.
&&
LAT...LON 3484 8440 3466 8433 3458 8468 3460 8472
3461 8473 3460 8472 3462 8471 3463 8473
3461 8475 3462 8476 3474 8481 3486 8446
TIME...MOT...LOC 0900Z 251DEG 18KT 3468 8467Special weather statement, Aug 8, 8:00 AM EDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 8:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gwinnett | 29 min |
| Aug 7, 8:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry | 40 min |
| Aug 7, 8:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb | 46 min |
| Aug 7, 9:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry | 45 min |
| Aug 7, 9:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Walton | 45 min |
| Aug 7, 9:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Floyd | 67 min |
| Aug 7, 9:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Butts, Henry | 31 min |
| Aug 7, 10:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 39 min |
| Aug 7, 11:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry | 38 min |
| Aug 7, 11:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry | 46 min |
| Aug 8, 4:13 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Murray | 47 min |
| Aug 8, 5:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gilmer | 45 min |
| Aug 8, 12:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gilmer, Pickens | 48 min |
| Aug 8, 12:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Paulding | 45 min |
| Aug 8, 1:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Paulding | 33 min |
| Aug 8, 1:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fayette | 43 min |
| Aug 8, 1:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb, Douglas, Paulding | 39 min |
| Aug 8, 1:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Paulding | 36 min |
| Aug 8, 1:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Jones, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 34 min |
| Aug 8, 2:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb, Douglas, Fulton | 49 min |
| Aug 8, 2:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton | 39 min |
| Aug 8, 2:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry | 33 min |
| Aug 8, 2:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb | 18 min |
| Aug 8, 2:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry | 36 min |
| Aug 8, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Henry, Rockdale | 45 min |
| Aug 8, 2:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin | 24 min |
| Aug 8, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett, Rockdale | 46 min |
| Aug 8, 3:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Douglas | 28 min |
| Aug 8, 3:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Newton | 35 min |
| Aug 8, 3:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Monroe | 26 min |
| Aug 8, 3:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Putnam | 23 min |
| Aug 8, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett, Rockdale, Walton | 32 min |
| Aug 8, 3:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton | 30 min |
| Aug 8, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson, Newton, Oconee and 1 more | 42 min |
| Aug 8, 3:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton | 47 min |
| Aug 8, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene, Hancock, Jasper, Morgan, Oconee, Putnam | 52 min |
| Aug 8, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Putnam, Taliaferro | 41 min |
| Aug 8, 4:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jackson | 38 min |
| Aug 8, 4:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin, Jones | 49 min |
| Aug 8, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clarke, Oconee | 29 min |
| Aug 8, 4:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Warren | 52 min |
| Aug 8, 4:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 48 min |
| Aug 8, 4:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock | 42 min |
| Aug 8, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock, Taliaferro, Warren | 66 min |
| Aug 8, 4:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks, Clarke, Madison | 64 min |
| Aug 8, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Wilkes | 59 min |
| Aug 8, 5:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Treutlen | 50 min |
| Aug 8, 5:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkinson | 40 min |
| Aug 8, 5:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taliaferro | 46 min |
| Aug 8, 6:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 53 min |
| Aug 8, 6:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bleckley, Houston | 49 min |
| Aug 8, 6:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson | 45 min |
| Aug 8, 6:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Twiggs | 54 min |
| Aug 8, 6:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Washington | 63 min |
| Aug 8, 7:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Paulding | 38 min |
| Aug 8, 7:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade | 45 min |
| Aug 8, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll | 25 min |
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Special Weather Statements in Georgia, 2014Every special weather statement in 2014
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.