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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

October 6, 2014Catoosa County, Dade County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Oct 6, 2014, 10:40 AM EDT for Catoosa County, Dade County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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: Oct 6, 2014, 10:40 AM EDT (14:40 UTC)
Expired: Oct 6, 2014, 11:15 AM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

Counties Catoosa County, GA, Dade County, GA

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:44 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, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 77 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -196 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1248 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 202 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 209 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 Oct 6, 7:30 AM EDT, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 6, 7:30 AM EDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 6, 4:00 AM EDT, 6 hours 40 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 6, 10:40 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1040 AM EDT MON OCT 6 2014

GAZ001>003-061515-
1040 AM EDT MON OCT 6 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PEA SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN WALKER...CATOOSA AND DADE COUNTIES UNTIL 1115 AM EDT...

AT 1034 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR TRENTON... RISING FAWN... AND
CHATTANOOGA VALLEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH ARE LIKELY AS THESE STORMS MOVE
ACROSS WALKER...CATOOSA AND DADE COUNTIES THROUGH 1115 AM EDT. SOME
LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE CEDAR GROVE...COLE CITY...
STEPHENSVILLE...RISING FAWN...CLOUDLAND CANYON STATE PARK...NEW
ENGLAND...TRENTON...COOPER HEIGHTS...MORGANVILLE...HOOKER...
WILDWOOD...CHATTANOOGA VALLEY...BLUE SPRING...ROCK SPRING AND
CHICKAMAUGA.

THESE WIND GUSTS MAY PRODUCE MINOR DAMAGE TO TREE LIMBS AND BLOW
LIGHT...UNSECURED OBJECTS AROUND.

&&

LAT...LON 3499 8498 3493 8500 3486 8509 3465 8554
      3498 8561 3499 8547
TIME...MOT...LOC 1438Z 242DEG 38KT 3486 8550

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 6, 11:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Whitfield	29 min
Oct 6, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Haralson, Polk	37 min
Oct 6, 3:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gordon	30 min
Oct 6, 4:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fannin	27 min
Oct 6, 6:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dade	49 min
Oct 6, 7:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Catoosa	37 min
Oct 6, 7:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dade, Walker	50 min
Oct 6, 7:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dade, Walker	42 min
Oct 6, 7:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Murray, Whitfield	34 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Georgia, 2014 Every special weather statement in 2014

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.