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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Nov 23, 2014, 11:09 AM EST for Heard County, Troup County, Georgia. It was in force for 21 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
- Nov 23, 2014, 11:09 AM EST (16:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 23, 2014, 11:30 AM EST
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Heard County, GA, Troup County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:12 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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 55 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 430 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 380 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 Nov 23, 10:30 AM EST, 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 23, 10:30 AM EST, 39 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 803 AM EST SUN NOV 23 2014 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-241015- BALDWIN-BANKS-BARROW-BARTOW-BIBB-BLECKLEY-BUTTS-CARROLL-CATOOSA- CHATTAHOOCHEE-CHATTOOGA-CHEROKEE-CLARKE-CLAYTON-COBB-COWETA- CRAWFORD-CRISP-DADE-DAWSON-DE KALB-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- 803 AM EST SUN NOV 23 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA TODAY AND TONIGHT. A WARM FRONT WILL PUSH NORTHWARD TODAY AS A STORM SYSTEM DEVELOPS IN THE NORTHWEST GULF. INSTABILITY WILL INCREASE OVER GEORGIA TODAY AS THIS FRONT PUSHES INTO THE AREA. A FEW STORMS MAY BE SEVERE MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. THE MOST FAVORED AREA FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL BE ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM LAGRANGE TO FORSYTH TO WARRENTON. DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE...ALONG WITH AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN. DUE TO THE SATURATED GROUNDS...SOME MINOR FLOODING WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE DURING THE DAY ON TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .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, Nov 23, 11:09 AM EST, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 23, 11:32 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Fayette, Haralson, Heard | 28 min |
| Nov 23, 11:57 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Clayton, Coweta, Douglas, Fayette, Haralson | 33 min |
| Nov 23, 12:33 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton | 27 min |
| Nov 23, 2:51 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer | 54 min |
| Nov 23, 3:03 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Stewart | 27 min |
| Nov 23, 3:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Harris, Marion, Muscogee | 40 min |
| Nov 23, 3:32 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion, Muscogee, Talbot | 28 min |
| Nov 23, 3:42 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion, Schley, Webster | 33 min |
| Nov 23, 3:43 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris | 32 min |
| Nov 23, 3:55 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta, Troup | 35 min |
| Nov 23, 4:01 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Talbot, Upson | 29 min |
| Nov 23, 4:06 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crawford, Dooly, Macon, Peach, Schley, Sumter and 1 more | 39 min |
| Nov 23, 4:18 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lamar, Pike, Spalding, Upson | 27 min |
| Nov 23, 4:23 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Lamar, Pike, Upson | 22 min |
| Nov 23, 4:29 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Crawford, Lamar, Monroe, Upson | 31 min |
| Nov 23, 4:45 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry, Lamar, Spalding | 30 min |
| Nov 23, 4:51 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jasper, Jones, Monroe, Putnam | 39 min |
| Nov 23, 4:59 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb, Bleckley, Houston, Jones, Peach, Pulaski and 2 more | 31 min |
| Nov 23, 5:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Dodge, Hancock, Houston and 8 more | 52 min |
| Nov 23, 5:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Butts, Jasper, Morgan, Newton, Walton | 27 min |
| Nov 23, 5:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Dodge, Emanuel, Glascock, Hancock, Jefferson and 9 more | 37 min |
| Nov 23, 6:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Glascock, Jefferson, Johnson, Taliaferro, Warren and 2 more | 36 min |
| Nov 23, 6:46 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 29 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.