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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 8, 2014Webster County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2014, 11:31 PM EDT for Webster County, Georgia. It was in force for 59 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, 11:31 PM EDT (03:31 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2014, 12:30 AM EDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Webster County, GA

The radar

The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:33 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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 146 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 186 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -163 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1194 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

829 
WWUS82 KFFC 090331
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1131 PM EDT FRI AUG 8 2014

GAZ103-090430-
1131 PM EDT FRI AUG 8 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HEAVY RAIN IN WEBSTER COUNTY
UNTIL 1230 AM EDT...

AT 1129 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER PRESTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS
AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES ACROSS
WEBSTER COUNTY...INCLUDING AREAS AROUND LEVERETTS...KIMBROUGH...
CENTERPOINT...WESTON...PRESTON AND DUMAS. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS ARE SUBJECT
TO MINOR FLOODING.

&&

LAT...LON 3203 8466 3206 8464 3208 8464 3219 8458
      3219 8456 3213 8452 3213 8443 3205 8443
      3196 8445 3193 8447 3192 8464
TIME...MOT...LOC 0331Z 220DEG 4KT 3207 8455

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 8, 8:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cobb, Coweta, Douglas, Fulton, Heard, Paulding	55 min
Aug 8, 8:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Toombs	38 min
Aug 8, 8:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Pulaski	51 min
Aug 8, 8:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Toombs	44 min
Aug 8, 8:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bleckley	50 min
Aug 8, 9:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Treutlen	42 min
Aug 8, 9:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Webster	40 min
Aug 8, 9:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion, Schley, Sumter, Webster	41 min
Aug 8, 10:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Webster	51 min
Aug 9, 1:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dooly, Macon	31 min
Aug 9, 2:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Ben Hill	32 min
Aug 9, 2:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Heard, Troup	46 min
Aug 9, 4:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taylor	28 min
Aug 9, 4:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Marion, Schley	27 min
Aug 9, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Upson	30 min
Aug 9, 5:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Carroll	46 min
Aug 9, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll	44 min
Aug 9, 5:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Muscogee	52 min
Aug 9, 5:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Marion, Schley	65 min
Aug 9, 5:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Paulding	33 min
Aug 9, 6:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Douglas	41 min
Aug 9, 6:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cobb, Paulding	26 min
Aug 9, 6:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Douglas, Fulton	38 min
Aug 9, 6:42 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Marion, Muscogee	6 hr
Aug 9, 6:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts, Lamar, Monroe	32 min
Aug 9, 7:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts, Monroe	34 min
Aug 9, 7:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton, Henry	49 min
Aug 9, 7:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jasper, Jones, Putnam	35 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.