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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

September 3, 20144 counties in Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Sep 3, 2014, 3:21 PM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 39 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: Sep 3, 2014, 3:21 PM EDT (19:21 UTC)
Expired: Sep 3, 2014, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

Counties Catoosa County, GA, Dade County, GA, Walker County, GA, Whitfield County, GA

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 175 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: 637 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 835 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -21 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.

000 
WWUS82 KFFC 031921
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
321 PM EDT WED SEP 3 2014

GAZ001>004-011-032000-
321 PM EDT WED SEP 3 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HEAVY RAIN IN WHITFIELD...
WALKER...CATOOSA...CHATTOOGA AND DADE COUNTIES UNTIL 400 PM EDT...

AT 320 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEW ENGLAND TO SUTTLES MILL...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS
AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES ACROSS
WHITFIELD...WALKER...CATOOSA...CHATTOOGA AND DADE COUNTIES...
INCLUDING AREAS AROUND SUBLIGNA...SUTTLES MILL...LAFAYETTE...
LINWOOD...COOPER HEIGHTS...COLE CITY...STEPHENSVILLE...CLOUDLAND
CANYON STATE PARK...NEW ENGLAND...TRENTON...NAOMI...NAOMI...NOBLE...
NOBLE AND CHICKAMAUGA. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS
ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS ARE SUBJECT TO MINOR FLOODING.

&&

LAT...LON 3499 8503 3472 8492 3471 8494 3469 8491
      3455 8521 3480 8545 3483 8559 3498 8561
      3499 8560
TIME...MOT...LOC 1921Z 243DEG 6KT 3491 8549 3487 8533
          3461 8517

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 2, 11:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Murray, Whitfield	38 min
Sep 2, 11:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fannin, Gilmer, Murray	40 min
Sep 3, 3:34 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Murray, Walker, Whitfield	6 hr
Sep 3, 11:47 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	FFC	Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga and 27 more	16 hr
Sep 3, 1:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Marion	24 min
Sep 3, 2:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Carroll	29 min
Sep 3, 2:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Carroll	33 min
Sep 3, 2:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Meriwether	31 min
Sep 3, 3:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Sumter	27 min
Sep 3, 3:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee	37 min
Sep 3, 3:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Muscogee	25 min
Sep 3, 3:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Marion, Schley, Webster	26 min
Sep 3, 3:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris, Muscogee	32 min
Sep 3, 4:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Marion, Schley	31 min
Sep 3, 4:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taliaferro, Warren, Wilkes	32 min
Sep 3, 4:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fulton	23 min
Sep 3, 4:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton	34 min
Sep 3, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	DeKalb	30 min
Sep 3, 5:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow, Gordon	54 min
Sep 3, 5:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton	24 min
Sep 3, 5:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow, Gordon	37 min
Sep 3, 5:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett	39 min
Sep 3, 5:37 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Gordon	6 hr
Sep 3, 5:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett	23 min
Sep 3, 6:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gilmer, Pickens	28 min
Sep 3, 6:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crisp	41 min
Sep 3, 6:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin, Washington, Wilkinson	50 min
Sep 3, 6:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall	33 min
Sep 3, 6:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Forsyth, Gwinnett, Jackson, Madison	46 min
Sep 3, 6:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Monroe	33 min
Sep 3, 6:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks, Forsyth, Hall, Jackson	38 min
Sep 3, 6:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Barrow, Newton, Rockdale, Walton	50 min
Sep 3, 6:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb, Jones	31 min
Sep 3, 7:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Banks, Hall, Jackson	45 min
Sep 3, 7:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jones	51 min
Sep 3, 7:26 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Banks, Hall, Jackson	6 hr
Sep 3, 7:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Paulding	45 min
Sep 3, 7:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Barrow, Newton, Walton	39 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.