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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jun 2, 2015, 2:37 PM EDT for Wilkes County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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
- Jun 2, 2015, 2:37 PM EDT (18:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2015, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Wilkes County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:38 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 936 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 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 Jun 2, 1:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 1:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 224 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 2015 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-030830- 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- 224 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT MUCH OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THROUGH THIS EVENING. ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM ROME TO CARTERSVILLE TO GAINESVILLE...WHERE A HIGHER THREAT OF HAIL AND BRIEF STRONG WIND GUSTS WILL EXIST. ALONG AND SOUTH OF I-20... ADDITIONAL STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. THE WINDS COULD BE STRONG ENOUGH TO KNOCK DOWN SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BLOW AROUND LOOSE OUTDOOR OBJECTS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN COULD ALSO CAUSE BRIEF MINOR FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS...ROADS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS...AS WELL AS SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY...MAINLY IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. A FEW STORMS ON WEDNESDAY COULD BE SEVERE AS THE UPPER LOW REMAINS IN THE AREA. .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. DJN
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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 2:37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 9:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson | 33 min |
| Jun 2, 1:37 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee, Forsyth | 53 min |
| Jun 2, 2:17 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dawson, Lumpkin | 43 min |
| Jun 2, 3:11 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks, Hall, Lumpkin, Towns, Union, White | 49 min |
| Jun 2, 3:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkes | 34 min |
| Jun 2, 4:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pulaski | 33 min |
| Jun 2, 4:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Murray | 31 min |
| Jun 2, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Murray | 29 min |
| Jun 2, 5:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Murray | 38 min |
| Jun 2, 5:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Murray | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 6:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Whitfield | 33 min |
| Jun 2, 6:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Twiggs, Wilkinson | 35 min |
| Jun 2, 7:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkinson | 28 min |
| Jun 2, 7:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Floyd | 32 min |
| Jun 2, 7:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee | 30 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.