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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 9, 2014Ben Hill County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2014, 2:13 PM EDT for Ben Hill County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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 9, 2014, 2:13 PM EDT (18:13 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2014, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Ben Hill County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 195 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: 1184 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 840 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -11 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.

861 
WWUS82 KFFC 091813
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
213 PM EDT SAT AUG 9 2014

GAZ108-110-091845-
213 PM EDT SAT AUG 9 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR DIME SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN WILCOX AND TELFAIR COUNTIES UNTIL 245 PM EDT...

AT 210 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER BROWNING...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH ARE LIKELY AS THIS STORM MOVES ACROSS WILCOX AND
TELFAIR COUNTIES THROUGH 245 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF
THE STORM INCLUDE ANTIOCH CHURCH...BROWNING...TEMPERANCE AND CHINA
HILL.

&&

LAT...LON 3180 8314 3184 8318 3184 8338 3193 8338
      3193 8322 3191 8322 3190 8320 3193 8317
      3194 8306 3180 8306
TIME...MOT...LOC 1813Z 271DEG 8KT 3185 8327

$$

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 8, 11:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Webster	59 min
Aug 9, 1:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dooly, Macon	31 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

Nearby

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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.