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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 9, 2014Taylor County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2014, 4:02 PM EDT for Taylor County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 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, 4:02 PM EDT (20:02 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2014, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Taylor County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 108 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: 148 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -164 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 952 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -41 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.

444 
WWUS82 KFFC 092002
SPSFFC

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

GAZ080-091>093-092030-
402 PM EDT SAT AUG 9 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PEA SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN SCHLEY...MARION...MACON AND TAYLOR COUNTIES UNTIL 430 PM EDT...

AT 400 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER RUPERT...MOVING EAST 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
SCHLEY...MARION...MACON AND TAYLOR COUNTIES THROUGH 430 PM EDT. SOME
LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE CEDAR CREEK...FIVE
POINTS...TAZEWELL...MAUK...CHARING...CONCORD...BUTLER...RUPERT...
MURRAYS CROSSROADS...FOUNTAINVILLE...BARTLETT...GARDEN VALLEY...
HICKS...IDEAL AND POTTERVILLE. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF
WATER ON ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 3239 8454 3259 8438 3257 8405 3255 8404
      3255 8402 3253 8400 3250 8402 3251 8399
      3223 8415 3223 8418 3222 8418
TIME...MOT...LOC 2002Z 291DEG 9KT 3247 8430

$$

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, 2:13 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, 4:33 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.