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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Mar 26, 2015, 9:27 PM EDT for Floyd County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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
- Mar 26, 2015, 9:27 PM EDT (01:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2015, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Floyd County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1593 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 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 Mar 26, 8:30 PM EDT, 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 26, 8:30 PM EDT, 57 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 540 PM EDT THU MAR 26 2015 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-271545- 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- 540 PM EDT THU MAR 26 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT... A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL BRING A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TO NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS EVENING INTO EARLY FRIDAY MORNING. SEVERE STORMS ARE CURRENTLY NOT EXPECTED...HOWEVER...THERE WILL BE ENOUGH INSTABILITY AND WIND SHEAR AVAILABLE FOR A FEW THUNDERSTORMS TO PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... BEHIND THE COLD FRONT...MUCH COLDER AIR WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION FOR THE WEEKEND WITH SUB-FREEZING LOW TEMPERATURES POSSIBLE FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH GEORGIA SATURDAY AND ESPECIALLY SUNDAY MORNING. NEAR RECORD LOWS ARE EXPECTED SUNDAY MORNING WITH WIDESPREAD FROST POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA AND PORTIONS OF CENTRAL GEORGIA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT REQUESTED AT THIS TIME HOWEVER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SUBMIT ANY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH THE WEB BY GOING TO WEATHER.GOV/ATLANTA.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 26, 9:27 PM EDT, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 5:24 AM EDT | Freeze Watch | FFC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts and 65 more | 23 hr |
| Mar 27, 5:24 AM EDT | Freeze Warning | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga and 30 more | 29 hr |
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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.