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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at May 26, 2015, 1:00 PM EDT for Upson County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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
- May 26, 2015, 1:00 PM EDT (17:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2015, 1:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Upson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 485 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 586 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 May 26, 9:30 AM EDT, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 9:30 AM EDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1034 AM EDT TUE MAY 26 2015 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-271445- 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- 1034 AM EDT TUE MAY 26 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED... FREQUENT LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND HEAVY RAIN...POSSIBLY RESULTING IN LOCALIZED FLOODING. DISCUSSION... AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL COMBINE WITH AMPLE MOISTURE AND DAYTIME HEATING TO PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE BEST CHANCES WILL BE NORTH OF A LINE FROM COLUMBUS TO MACON TO AUGUSTA...AND GENERALLY BETWEEN 3 AND 10 PM. THIS ACTIVITY WILL DIMINISH INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MONDAY. FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS WITH ANY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. .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, May 26, 1:00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 8:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Spalding | 29 min |
| May 25, 8:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry, Rockdale | 30 min |
| May 25, 8:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb, Gwinnett | 34 min |
| May 25, 9:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Barrow, Walton | 30 min |
| May 25, 9:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Hall, Jackson | 31 min |
| May 26, 1:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 33 min |
| May 26, 1:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lamar | 29 min |
| May 26, 1:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson | 23 min |
| May 26, 2:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow | 26 min |
| May 26, 2:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Heard | 6 hr |
| May 26, 2:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Paulding | 29 min |
| May 26, 2:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 38 min |
| May 26, 2:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Butts | 36 min |
| May 26, 2:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pickens | 33 min |
| May 26, 2:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Webster | 32 min |
| May 26, 2:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Upson | 30 min |
| May 26, 2:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 27 min |
| May 26, 2:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Paulding | 26 min |
| May 26, 2:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee | 24 min |
| May 26, 3:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Muscogee | 30 min |
| May 26, 3:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee, Pickens | 29 min |
| May 26, 3:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Douglas | 26 min |
| May 26, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Muscogee | 24 min |
| May 26, 3:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris | 37 min |
| May 26, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris | 46 min |
| May 26, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Meriwether | 23 min |
| May 26, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Pike | 35 min |
| May 26, 3:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dawson, Lumpkin | 31 min |
| May 26, 4:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth | 25 min |
| May 26, 4:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, Fayette, Henry, Pike, Spalding | 29 min |
| May 26, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Fayette, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry and 2 more | 50 min |
| May 26, 4:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Houston, Monroe, Peach | 43 min |
| May 26, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts, Henry, Jasper, Newton, Rockdale, Spalding | 51 min |
| May 26, 4:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth | 31 min |
| May 26, 4:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hall, White | 33 min |
| May 26, 5:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin, Jasper, Jones, Putnam | 30 min |
| May 26, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Clarke, Greene, Jackson, Morgan, Newton and 4 more | 45 min |
| May 26, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Jasper, Morgan, Putnam | 50 min |
| May 26, 5:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Houston, Twiggs | 26 min |
| May 26, 5:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | White | 24 min |
| May 26, 5:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jones | 33 min |
| May 26, 5:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin | 24 min |
| May 26, 5:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Telfair | 35 min |
| May 26, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Clarke, Greene, Jackson, Madison and 3 more | 45 min |
| May 26, 6:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock | 36 min |
| May 26, 6:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkinson | 26 min |
| May 26, 6:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 23 min |
| May 26, 7:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 33 min |
| May 26, 7:27 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 10 hr |
| May 26, 7:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery, Wheeler | 33 min |
| May 26, 7:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jefferson | 33 min |
| May 26, 7:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery, Treutlen | 37 min |
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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.