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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 23, 2014, 3:27 PM EDT for Murray County, Whitfield County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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 23, 2014, 3:27 PM EDT (19:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2014, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Murray County, GA, Whitfield County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:28 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 304 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1414 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 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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</html>What forecasters said that day
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 23, 1:39 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 1:39 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 23, 4:44 AM EDT, 10 hours 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 444 AM EDT SAT AUG 23 2014 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-241000- 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- 444 AM EDT SAT AUG 23 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. DANGEROUS HEAT INDEX VALUES ARE EXPECTED ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY EVENING. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED... THE MAIN THREAT FROM ANY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE STRONG WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. DANGEROUS HEAT INDICES ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL GEORGIA WILL CREATE THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAT EXHAUSTION OR HEAT STROKE. DISCUSSION... THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE THAT HAS DOMINATED FOR THE PAST FEW DAYS AND PROVIDED THE HOT TEMPERATURES...WILL BEGIN TO WEAKEN TODAY. DESPITE THIS...HOT TEMPERATURES ARE STILL EXPECTED TODAY AND HEAT INDICES WILL REACH INTO THE MID 100S ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL GEORGIA. A COMBINATION OF THE UPPER RIDGE WEAKENING AND UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL ALLOW FOR A BETTER CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. THE CHANCE FOR THESE STORMS WILL INCREASE DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS BUT STORMS MAY CONTINUE OVERNIGHT WITH SUPPORT FROM AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE. A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY WITH DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... A FRONT WILL PUSH INTO GEORGIA FROM THE NORTHEAST ON SUNDAY...PROVIDING AN INCREASED CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME WITH THE SYSTEM ON SUNDAY. BEHIND THIS...DRIER AIR MOVES INTO THE AREA AND THERE IS ONLY A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON MONDAY. WITH ANOTHER COLD FRONT APPROACHING GEORGIA LATE IN THE WEEK...THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN FOR THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT REQUESTED BUT SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SUBMIT REPORTS OF STRONG TO SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH THE WEB BY GOING TO WEATHER.GOV/ATLANTA.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 23, 3:27 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
327 PM EDT SAT AUG 23 2014
GAZ004-005-232000-
327 PM EDT SAT AUG 23 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PEA SIZED HAIL AND 45 MPH WINDS
IN WHITFIELD AND MURRAY COUNTIES UNTIL 400 PM EDT...
AT 325 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER DAWNVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE PEA SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS
WHITFIELD AND MURRAY COUNTIES THROUGH 400 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN
THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE SUMAC...DAWNVILLE...BEAVERDALE...
CRANDALL...ETON...CHATSWORTH...NORTH GEORGIA SPEEDWAY...FORT MOUNTAIN
STATE PARK...CARTERS AND RAMHURST. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING
OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.
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LAT...LON 3495 8483 3479 8463 3474 8465 3463 8465
3459 8471 3460 8473 3462 8471 3463 8473
3461 8475 3461 8479 3483 8500
TIME...MOT...LOC 1927Z 319DEG 16KT 3482 8484The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow | 37 min |
| Aug 23, 4:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow | 37 min |
| Aug 23, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Paulding | 43 min |
| Aug 23, 4:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Polk | 32 min |
| Aug 23, 5:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | White | 33 min |
| Aug 23, 5:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton | 26 min |
| Aug 23, 6:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | 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.