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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 18, 2014, 3:21 PM EDT for Dade County, Walker County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 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 18, 2014, 3:21 PM EDT (19:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2014, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Dade County, GA, Walker County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 354 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 611 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
741
WWUS82 KFFC 181921
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
321 PM EDT MON AUG 18 2014
GAZ001-002-181945-
321 PM EDT MON AUG 18 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR 45 MPH WINDS IN WALKER AND DADE
COUNTIES UNTIL 345 PM EDT...
AT 319 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 9 MILES WEST OF COLE CITY TO 11 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF RISING FAWN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
WIND GUSTS OF 45 MPH ARE LIKELY AS THESE STORMS MOVE ACROSS WALKER
AND DADE COUNTIES THROUGH 345 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF
THESE STORMS INCLUDE STEPHENSVILLE...RISING FAWN...COLE CITY...
TRENTON...CLOUDLAND CANYON STATE PARK...NEW ENGLAND...CEDAR GROVE...
COOPER HEIGHTS...HOOKER...MORGANVILLE...WILDWOOD...LAFAYETTE...
LINWOOD...CHICKAMAUGA AND CHATTANOOGA VALLEY.
THESE WIND GUSTS MAY PRODUCE MINOR DAMAGE TO TREE LIMBS AND BLOW
LIGHT...UNSECURED OBJECTS AROUND. TREES MAY DOWN MORE EASILY WITH
ALREADY WET SOILS FROM PREVIOUS RAINFALL.
&&
LAT...LON 3499 8526 3464 8526 3459 8541 3459 8553
3495 8561 3498 8561 3499 8560
TIME...MOT...LOC 1921Z 244DEG 29KT 3503 8570 3484 8558
3462 8559
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 6:36 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa | 54 min |
| Aug 18, 7:23 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Murray, Walker, Whitfield | 67 min |
| Aug 18, 8:30 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Union | 45 min |
| Aug 18, 9:20 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lumpkin, Towns, White | 25 min |
| Aug 18, 9:53 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Gordon, Murray, Walker, Whitfield | 52 min |
| Aug 18, 10:03 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gilmer, Lumpkin, White | 57 min |
| Aug 18, 12:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene | 41 min |
| Aug 18, 12:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Wilkes | 46 min |
| Aug 18, 1:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Stewart, Webster | 25 min |
| Aug 18, 1:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Stewart, Webster | 31 min |
| Aug 18, 4:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 43 min |
| Aug 18, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 44 min |
| Aug 18, 5:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Newton | 23 min |
| Aug 18, 5:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Paulding | 34 min |
| Aug 18, 6:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 46 min |
| Aug 18, 6:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 52 min |
| Aug 18, 6:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Oglethorpe, Wilkes | 36 min |
| Aug 18, 6:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Heard | 28 min |
| Aug 18, 6:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Douglas, Fulton | 37 min |
| Aug 18, 7:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Floyd, Haralson, Polk | 30 min |
| Aug 18, 7:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion, Muscogee, Stewart, Talbot, Webster | 44 min |
| Aug 18, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Meriwether, Pike, Spalding | 52 min |
| Aug 18, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Harris, Marion, Muscogee, Schley, Stewart and 3 more | 45 min |
| Aug 18, 7:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 26 min |
| Aug 18, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 50 min |
| Aug 18, 7:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette, Spalding | 34 min |
| Aug 18, 7:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hall | 30 min |
| Aug 18, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 36 min |
| Aug 18, 7:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crawford, Macon, Peach, Schley, Sumter, Taylor | 33 min |
| Aug 18, 7:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Fayette, Henry | 33 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.