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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

December 24, 2014Crisp County, Dooly County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Dec 24, 2014, 4:11 AM EST for Crisp County, Dooly County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 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: Dec 24, 2014, 4:11 AM EST (09:11 UTC)
Expired: Dec 24, 2014, 5:00 AM EST
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

Counties Crisp County, GA, Dooly County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 170 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 509 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 397 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 547 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 Dec 24, 3:46 AM EST, 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 24, 3:46 AM EST, 25 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 23, 4:15 PM EST, 11 hours 56 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
415 PM EST TUE DEC 23 2014

GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086-
089>098-102>113-241100-
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-
415 PM EST TUE DEC 23 2014

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT...TUESDAY NIGHT.

...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT OVER MUCH OF NORTH AND
CENTRAL GEORGIA. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE OVER CENTRAL AND
PORTIONS OF NORTH GEORGIA...
...HEAVY RAIN COULD CAUSE MINOR FLOODING...

WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED...
DAMAGING WINDS...ISOLATED TORNADOES AND LARGE HAIL...WITH ANY STRONG TO
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. HEAVY RAIN COULD CAUSE MINOR FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY...

A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH GEORGIA ON WEDNESDAY. SHOWERS
AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AHEAD OF THE FRONT. SOME
OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS...ISOLATED
TORNADOES...AND HEAVY RAIN. THE BEST RISK FOR SEVERE STORMS ON
WEDNESDAY WILL BE ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT THAT WILL
MOVE INTO WESTERN GEORGIA WEDNESDAY MORNING...AND INTO EASTERN
GEORGIA BY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.

.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, Dec 24, 12:12 AM EST, 3 hours 59 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1212 AM EST WED DEC 24 2014

GAZ071-072-080>083-093>095-240545-
TWIGGS GA-MACON GA-TAYLOR GA-CRAWFORD GA-JONES GA-PEACH GA-
HOUSTON GA-MONROE GA-BIBB GA-
1212 AM EST WED DEC 24 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR 40 MPH WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN
IN TWIGGS...MACON...TAYLOR...CRAWFORD...JONES...PEACH...HOUSTON...
MONROE AND BIBB COUNTIES UNTIL 1245 AM EST...

AT 1210 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES WEST
OF GRAY TO NEAR MARSHALLVILLE...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

A QUICK INCH OF RAIN ALONG WITH 40 MPH WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED
ACROSS TWIGGS...MACON...TAYLOR...CRAWFORD...JONES...PEACH...
HOUSTON...MONROE AND BIBB COUNTIES...INCLUDING AREAS AROUND
MACON...PERRY...FORT VALLEY...WARNER ROBINS...CENTERVILLE...BYRON...
MARSHALLVILLE...PAYNE...ROBINS AFB...PAYNE CITY...FRANKLINTON...
HAYNEVILLE...LAKEWOOD...LIZELLA...HOUSTON LAKE...GRISWOLDVILLE...
POSTELL...BULLARD...GROVE PARK AND FITZPATRICK.

DRIVERS SHOULD ALSO USE CAUTION AS INTENSE RAINFALL WILL REDUCE
VISIBILITIES. PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS IS ALSO LIKELY.

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

LAT...LON 3300 8378 3295 8337 3293 8336 3290 8341
      3285 8338 3237 8356 3237 8409
TIME...MOT...LOC 0510Z 256DEG 30KT 3297 8365 3242 8393

Special weather statement, Dec 24, 12:31 AM EST, 3 hours 40 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1231 AM EST WED DEC 24 2014

GAZ038-039-050-051-060-061-072-073-240600-
TALIAFERRO GA-OGLETHORPE GA-BALDWIN GA-JONES GA-GREENE GA-PUTNAM GA-
WILKES GA-HANCOCK GA-
1231 AM EST WED DEC 24 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PEA SIZED HAIL...40 MPH WINDS
AND HEAVY RAINFALL IN TALIAFERRO...OGLETHORPE...BALDWIN...JONES...
GREENE...PUTNAM...WILKES AND HANCOCK COUNTIES UNTIL 100 AM EST...

AT 1229 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM GREENSBORO
TO 7 MILES EAST OF GRAY...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

A QUICK INCH OF RAIN ALONG WITH 40 MPH WINDS AND PEA SIZE HAIL CAN BE
EXPECTED ACROSS TALIAFERRO...OGLETHORPE...BALDWIN...JONES...GREENE...
PUTNAM...WILKES AND HANCOCK COUNTIES...INCLUDING AREAS AROUND
MILLEDGEVILLE...EATONTON...WASHINGTON...GREENSBORO...GRAY...SPARTA...
CRAWFORDVILLE...UNION POINT...WOODVILLE...WHITE PLAINS...SILOAM...
RAYLE...SHARON...PHOENIX...REYNOLDS PLANTATION...MIDWAY-HARDWICK...
LIBERTY...MERIWETHER...SPRINGFIELD AND SCOTTSBORO.

DRIVERS SHOULD ALSO USE CAUTION AS INTENSE RAINFALL WILL REDUCE
VISIBILITIES. PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS IS ALSO LIKELY.

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

LAT...LON 3351 8279 3352 8282 3343 8283 3298 8312
      3301 8315 3299 8318 3297 8316 3298 8321
      3294 8328 3293 8334 3298 8360 3347 8337
      3349 8328 3354 8327 3358 8332 3366 8328
      3385 8273
TIME...MOT...LOC 0529Z 259DEG 32KT 3357 8320 3298 8341

Special weather statement, Dec 24, 12:39 AM EST, 3 hours 32 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1239 AM EST WED DEC 24 2014

GAZ074-083-084-095-096-240630-
TWIGGS GA-BLECKLEY GA-WILKINSON GA-WASHINGTON GA-HOUSTON GA-
1239 AM EST WED DEC 24 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PEA SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN TWIGGS...BLECKLEY...WILKINSON...WASHINGTON AND HOUSTON COUNTIES
UNTIL 130 AM EST...

AT 1239 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR GRAY TO
NEAR ROBINS AFB TO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PERRY...AND MOVING EAST AT 25
MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE LIKELY AS THESE STORMS
MOVE ACROSS TWIGGS... BLECKLEY...WILKINSON...WASHINGTON AND HOUSTON
COUNTIES THROUGH 130 AM EST.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE
PERRY...COCHRAN...JEFFERSONVILLE...IRWINTON...WARNER ROBINS...
GORDON...IVEY...MCINTYRE...TOOMSBORO...DANVILLE...ALLENTOWN...
DEEPSTEP...ROBINS AFB...MARION...HEBRON...OCMULGEE PUBLIC FISHING
AREA...ROYAL...HAYNEVILLE...HOUSTON LAKE AND CARY.

LAT...LON 3237 8380 3265 8359 3277 8354 3281 8350
      3285 8351 3298 8322 3297 8317 3301 8315
      3295 8307 3303 8307 3306 8305 3309 8288
      3262 8314 3258 8323 3253 8320 3237 8329
      3237 8346 3240 8352 3237 8355
TIME...MOT...LOC 0539Z 262DEG 22KT 3294 8348 3266 8357 3238 8384

Special weather statement, Dec 24, 12:43 AM EST, 3 hours 28 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1243 AM EST WED DEC 24 2014

GAZ093-095-096-105-107-240630-
BLECKLEY GA-MACON GA-HOUSTON GA-DOOLY GA-PULASKI GA-
1243 AM EST WED DEC 24 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PEA SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN BLECKLEY...MACON...HOUSTON...DOOLY AND PULASKI COUNTIES UNTIL 130
AM EST...

AT 1243 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER DOOLING...OR 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
OGLETHORPE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM AS THIS STORM MOVES
ACROSS BLECKLEY...MACON...HOUSTON...DOOLY AND PULASKI COUNTIES
THROUGH 130 AM EST.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE
COCHRAN...HAWKINSVILLE...UNADILLA...BYROMVILLE...PINEHURST...LILLY...
DOOLING...PAULK...HARTFORD...PULASKI STATE PRISON...GROVANIA...
OCMULGEE PUBLIC FISHING AREA...WALLACE...MOBLEY CROSSING...
HAYNEVILLE...HENDERSON...BROWNDALE...GROVE PARK...MOCK SPRINGS AND
BAILEYS PARK.

LAT...LON 3214 8397 3238 8397 3239 8330 3215 8343
TIME...MOT...LOC 0543Z 257DEG 39KT 3224 8390

Special weather statement, Dec 24, 1:13 AM EST, 2 hours 58 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
113 AM EST WED DEC 24 2014

GAZ061-062-073>076-240700-
GLASCOCK GA-WASHINGTON GA-BALDWIN GA-JEFFERSON GA-HANCOCK GA-
WARREN GA-
113 AM EST WED DEC 24 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PEA SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN GLASCOCK...WASHINGTON...BALDWIN...JEFFERSON...HANCOCK AND WARREN
COUNTIES UNTIL 200 AM EST...

AT 113 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF DEEPSTEP...OR 11 MILES SOUTH
OF SPARTA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM AS THIS STORM MOVES
ACROSS GLASCOCK...WASHINGTON...BALDWIN...JEFFERSON...HANCOCK AND
WARREN COUNTIES THROUGH 200 AM EST.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE
WARRENTON...SPARTA...GIBSON...WRENS...STAPLETON...AVERA...NORWOOD...
MITCHELL...CAMAK...DEEPSTEP...EDGE HILL...EDGEHILL...WARTHEN...
STAPLETONS CROSSROADS...CULVERTON...REESE...BASTONVILLE...
UNDERWOOD...AGRICOLA AND DOWNS.

LAT...LON 3310 8235 3299 8305 3311 8321 3353 8262
      3346 8259 3341 8255 3335 8255 3333 8242
TIME...MOT...LOC 0613Z 239DEG 49KT 3311 8303

Special weather statement, Dec 24, 4:11 AM EST, 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
Dec 23, 9:03 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow, Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Floyd, Haralson and 3 more	42 min
Dec 23, 9:45 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas and 3 more	45 min
Dec 23, 9:57 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Harris, Meriwether, Muscogee, Pike, Spalding and 2 more	63 min
Dec 23, 10:00 PM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Forsyth, Fulton	52 hr
Dec 23, 10:30 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Upson	30 min
Dec 23, 10:39 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Barrow, DeKalb, Henry, Newton, Rockdale, Walton	36 min
Dec 23, 10:56 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Stewart, Webster	49 min
Dec 23, 11:02 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts, Crawford, Jasper, Lamar, Marion, Monroe and 3 more	43 min
Dec 23, 11:57 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Greene, Jones, Putnam	33 min
Dec 24, 12:12 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb, Houston, Peach	33 min
Dec 24, 12:31 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin, Greene, Hancock, Jones, Putnam, Taliaferro and 1 more	29 min
Dec 24, 12:39 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bleckley, Houston, Twiggs, Wilkinson	51 min
Dec 24, 12:43 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dooly, Pulaski	47 min
Dec 24, 1:13 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Glascock, Warren	47 min
Dec 24, 2:14 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Forsyth	11 hr
Dec 24, 4:23 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bleckley, Houston, Pulaski, Twiggs	52 min
Dec 24, 6:36 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crisp, Dooly	54 min
Dec 24, 7:19 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dodge, Laurens	26 min
Dec 24, 7:44 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Crisp	4 hr
Dec 24, 10:07 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Dade	7 hr
Dec 24, 12:11 PM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Whitfield	8 hr

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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.