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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 19, 2014, 11:19 AM EDT for Montgomery County, Toombs County, Treutlen County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 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 19, 2014, 11:19 AM EDT (15:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2014, 11:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Montgomery County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 1210 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 878 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 19, 10:02 AM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 10:02 AM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1101 AM EDT TUE AUG 19 2014 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-201515- 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- 1101 AM EDT TUE AUG 19 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED... THE MAIN THREAT FROM ANY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE GUSTY WINDS... LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND OCCASIONAL TO FREQUENT LIGHTNING. DISCUSSION... INSTABILITY WILL BE SUFFICIENT ACROSS THE AREA FOR A FEW STRONG STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AND ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS CANNOT BE RULE OUT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD WEAKEN WITH THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE EACH DAY...MAINLY IN THE AFTERNOONS AND EVENINGS. ADDITIONALLY...INCREASING HEAT CAN BE EXPECTED WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...AND RESIDENTS ESPECIALLY ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA NEED TO BE AWARE THAT A HEAT ADVISORY MAY BE NECESSARY LATER IN THE WEEK. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED... THE MAIN THREAT FROM ANY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN... OCCASIONAL TO FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THE INCREASING HEAT AND MOISTURES WILL BE HEAT INDEX VALUES APPROACHING DANGEROUS LEVELS. DISCUSSION... ALTHOUGH UPPER-LEVEL RIDGING WILL INHIBIT THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT SOMEWHAT BY WEDNESDAY INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE EACH DAY...MAINLY IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. INSTABILITY IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE SUFFICIENT FOR WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER AT THIS TIME. THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGING WILL ALSO ALLOW TEMPERATURES AND HEAT INDEX VAKYES TO CLIMB THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT STRONG TO SEVERE WEATHER VIA THE WEB AT WEATHER.GOV/ATLANTA.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 19, 9:32 AM EDT, 1 hour 47 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 18, 8:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Spalding | 27 min |
| Aug 18, 8:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clarke, Oconee | 37 min |
| Aug 18, 8:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, DeKalb, Henry, Newton, Rockdale | 37 min |
| Aug 18, 8:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jasper | 30 min |
| Aug 18, 8:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Madison, Oglethorpe | 24 min |
| Aug 18, 8:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Morgan, Newton, Walton | 33 min |
| Aug 19, 10:41 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens, Montgomery, Telfair, Treutlen, Wheeler | 34 min |
| Aug 19, 11:43 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 17 min |
| Aug 19, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Treutlen | 29 min |
| Aug 19, 4:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 28 min |
| Aug 19, 4:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Treutlen | 33 min |
| Aug 19, 5:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Muscogee | 32 min |
| Aug 19, 5:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 34 min |
| Aug 19, 5:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Treutlen | 31 min |
| Aug 19, 5:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb | 21 min |
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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.