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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

September 7, 2014Hancock County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Sep 7, 2014, 2:39 PM EDT for Hancock County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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 7, 2014, 2:39 PM EDT (18:39 UTC)
Expired: Sep 7, 2014, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Hancock County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 140 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.

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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: 911 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 944 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 16 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.

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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 Sep 7, 1:33 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 7, 1:33 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 7, 5:03 AM EDT, 9 hours 36 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 7, 1:55 PM EDT, 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 7, 2:01 PM EDT, 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 7, 2:09 PM EDT, 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 7, 2:23 PM EDT, 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 7, 2:34 PM EDT, 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 7, 2:39 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 7, 12:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb	34 min
Sep 7, 12:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb	32 min
Sep 7, 1:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Twiggs	30 min
Sep 7, 1:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin	35 min
Sep 7, 2:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Houston	44 min
Sep 7, 2:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dooly	36 min
Sep 7, 2:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkes	37 min
Sep 7, 2:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Greene	26 min
Sep 7, 2:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bleckley, Houston	31 min
Sep 7, 2:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkes	33 min
Sep 7, 3:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crisp	45 min
Sep 7, 3:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Monroe	28 min
Sep 7, 3:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Pickens	37 min
Sep 7, 3:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Glascock, Warren	35 min
Sep 7, 3:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Monroe	30 min
Sep 7, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gwinnett	27 min
Sep 7, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Sumter	47 min
Sep 7, 3:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Glascock, Washington	29 min
Sep 7, 3:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	DeKalb, Gwinnett	33 min
Sep 7, 4:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Monroe	30 min
Sep 7, 4:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Glascock, Washington, Wilkinson	33 min
Sep 7, 4:17 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Gwinnett	6 hr
Sep 7, 4:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow	37 min
Sep 7, 4:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Sumter	33 min
Sep 7, 4:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taylor	25 min
Sep 7, 4:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gwinnett	35 min
Sep 7, 4:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Washington	47 min
Sep 7, 4:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Henry	46 min
Sep 7, 4:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Upson	26 min
Sep 7, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Upson	52 min
Sep 7, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taylor	32 min
Sep 7, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Webster	30 min
Sep 7, 5:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Paulding	27 min
Sep 7, 5:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Stewart	32 min
Sep 7, 5:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Webster	47 min
Sep 7, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fayette, Henry	29 min
Sep 7, 5:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cobb, Douglas	27 min
Sep 7, 5:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin	24 min
Sep 7, 5:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Meriwether	36 min
Sep 7, 5:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Troup	34 min
Sep 7, 5:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Upson	32 min
Sep 7, 5:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Stewart	30 min
Sep 7, 5:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Carroll	35 min
Sep 7, 6:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Heard, Meriwether, Troup	46 min
Sep 7, 6:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Talbot, Taylor	27 min
Sep 7, 6:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Muscogee	49 min
Sep 7, 6:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta, Meriwether	32 min
Sep 7, 6:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris	27 min
Sep 7, 6:52 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Coweta, Meriwether	6 hr
Sep 7, 6:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taylor	23 min
Sep 7, 7:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Harris, Muscogee, Troup	48 min
Sep 7, 7:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dodge	31 min
Sep 7, 7:18 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Muscogee	6 hr
Sep 7, 7:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Candler	23 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.