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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

October 9, 2014Lumpkin County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Oct 9, 2014, 1:28 PM EDT for Lumpkin County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 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 9, 2014, 1:28 PM EDT (17:28 UTC)
Expired: Oct 9, 2014, 2:15 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Lumpkin County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:28 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 1417 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 879 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 9, 11:00 AM EDT, 2 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 9, 11:00 AM EDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 9, 4:30 AM EDT, 8 hours 58 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
430 AM EDT THU OCT 9 2014

GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086-
089>098-102>113-101000-
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-
430 AM EDT THU OCT 9 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL
GEORGIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA.

WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED...

THE PRIMARY HAZARDS FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FREQUENT
LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL.

DISCUSSION...
ANOTHER WEAK SHORT WAVE WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA TODAY BRINGING
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS TO AREAS NORTH OF A LINE FROM CEDARTOWN...TO
GAINESVILLE. MARGINAL INSTABILITY WILL ALLOW A FEW STORMS TO BECOME
STRONG WITH GUSTY WINDS...ALONG WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME PEA-
SIZED HAIL. THE BEST TIMING FOR ANY THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE
FROM MID-MORNING THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON TODAY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...

FOR FRIDAY...A STRONGER SHORT WAVE WILL BE MOVING ACROSS NORTH
GEORGIA. WITH SLIGHTLY HIGHER INSTABILITY AND SHEAR VALUES...A FEW
STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE
POSSIBLE EACH DAY...MAINLY ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA. THE MAIN THREAT FROM
ANY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS.

FOR TUESDAY...A STRONG STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING INCREASING CHANCES FOR
THUNDERSTORMS...WITH SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED WEDNESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT REQUESTED BUT SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO
SUBMIT REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH THE WEB BY GOING TO
WEATHER.GOV/ATLANTA.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 9, 1:28 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
128 PM EDT THU OCT 9 2014

GAZ015-016-023-091815-
128 PM EDT THU OCT 9 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PEA SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN WHITE...LUMPKIN AND HALL COUNTIES UNTIL 215 PM EDT...

AT 126 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER DAHLONEGA...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE PEA SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS
WHITE...LUMPKIN AND HALL COUNTIES THROUGH 215 PM EDT. SOME LOCATIONS
IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE DAHLONEGA...MURRAYVILLE...
GARLAND...CLERMONT AND MOSSY CREEK. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE
PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 3435 8368 3439 8398 3441 8397 3443 8402
      3458 8402 3460 8367
TIME...MOT...LOC 1728Z 275DEG 10KT 3448 8397

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 8, 8:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow	31 min
Oct 9, 1:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clarke, Jackson	38 min
Oct 9, 2:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	White	33 min
Oct 9, 2:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cobb, Fulton	26 min
Oct 9, 2:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, Douglas, Fulton, Paulding	39 min
Oct 9, 3:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	White	28 min
Oct 9, 3:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Catoosa	52 min
Oct 9, 3:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Whitfield	33 min
Oct 9, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Murray	42 min
Oct 9, 3:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Banks	38 min
Oct 9, 3:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Douglas, Fulton	51 min
Oct 9, 3:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	White	64 min
Oct 9, 3:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin, Gilmer, Murray, Whitfield	52 min
Oct 9, 4:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Treutlen	50 min
Oct 9, 4:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Banks	49 min
Oct 9, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Forsyth	47 min
Oct 9, 5:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson, Forsyth, Hall	44 min
Oct 9, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks, Jackson, Madison	40 min
Oct 9, 6:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jackson	45 min
Oct 9, 6:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lumpkin, Towns, Union, White	58 min
Oct 9, 7:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Clarke, Jackson, Madison, Oconee, Oglethorpe	60 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.