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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

October 9, 2014Taliaferro County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Oct 9, 2014, 11:13 PM EDT for Taliaferro County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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, 11:13 PM EDT (03:13 UTC)
Expired: Oct 9, 2014, 11:45 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Taliaferro County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 155 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: 1154 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1381 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

760 
WWUS82 KFFC 100313
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1113 PM EDT THU OCT 9 2014

GAZ050-051-100345-
1113 PM EDT THU OCT 9 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PEA SIZED HAIL AND 35 MPH WINDS
IN TALIAFERRO AND GREENE COUNTIES UNTIL 1145 PM EDT...

AT 1112 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER ROBINSON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

LIGHTNING DETECTION SYSTEMS INDICATE NUMEROUS CLOUD-TO-GROUND
LIGHTNING STRIKES ACROSS TALIAFERRO AND GREENE COUNTIES...INCLUDING
AREAS AROUND ROBINSON...LYNEVILLE...WHITE PLAINS...SILOAM...ALEXANDER
STEPHENS PARK...CRAWFORDVILLE...SANDY CROSS...SHARON AND RAYTOWN.
RESIDENTS IN THIS AREA SHOULD STAY INDOORS. ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES AND
TELEPHONES SHOULD NOT BE USED UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY.

&&

LAT...LON 3359 8270 3351 8275 3352 8282 3346 8286
      3345 8285 3344 8294 3347 8301 3343 8307
      3360 8312 3366 8291 3362 8288 3366 8282
      3362 8275 3362 8269 3359 8268
TIME...MOT...LOC 0313Z 263DEG 30KT 3353 8296

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 9, 11:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taliaferro	25 min
Oct 10, 4:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dade	47 min
Oct 10, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Dade, Walker, Whitfield	48 min
Oct 10, 5:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Walker, Whitfield	45 min
Oct 10, 6:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Murray, Whitfield	61 min
Oct 10, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin, Gilmer, Murray	39 min
Oct 10, 7:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gilmer	44 min
Oct 10, 7:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Gilmer	6 hr

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.