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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 26, 2015Cherokee County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jun 26, 2015, 8:21 PM EDT for Cherokee County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 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 26, 2015, 8:21 PM EDT (00:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2015, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Cherokee County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 100 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: 803 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 934 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

073 
WWUS82 KFFC 270021
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
821 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 2015
 
GAZ013-014-021-022-270045-
DAWSON GA-PICKENS GA-CHEROKEE GA-FORSYTH GA-
821 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR DIME SIZED HAIL AND 45 MPH WINDS
IN DAWSON...PICKENS...CHEROKEE AND FORSYTH COUNTIES UNTIL 845 PM
EDT...

AT 821 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER BUFFINGTON...OR NEAR CANTON...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DIME SIZED SIZED HAIL...
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH AS IT
MOVES ACROSS DAWSON...PICKENS...CHEROKEE AND FORSYTH COUNTIES THROUGH
845 PM EDT.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE
CANTON...BALL GROUND...NELSON...BUFFINGTON...FREE HOME...
LATHEMTOWN...HOLBROOK...UNION HILL...TATE...MARBLEHILL...MATT...
HIGHTOWER...DUCKTOWN...SILVER CITY...HOLLIS LATHEM RESERVOIR AND
REAVIS MOUNTAIN.

LAT...LON 3432 8406 3419 8430 3419 8433 3418 8434
      3418 8435 3417 8436 3425 8451 3447 8438
TIME...MOT...LOC 0021Z 218DEG 18KT 3426 8440 

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 9:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Forsyth	39 min
Jun 26, 9:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Forsyth, Fulton	36 min
Jun 26, 9:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Barrow, Jackson	29 min
Jun 26, 9:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Forsyth	39 min
Jun 27, 12:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crisp	26 min
Jun 27, 1:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Coweta, Fayette	36 min
Jun 27, 1:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Telfair	23 min
Jun 27, 2:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Henry	35 min
Jun 27, 2:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Telfair	27 min
Jun 27, 3:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Madison	23 min
Jun 27, 3:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkes	26 min
Jun 27, 3:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Coweta	31 min
Jun 27, 3:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Hancock	25 min
Jun 27, 3:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Putnam	21 min
Jun 27, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkes	16 min
Jun 27, 4:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkes	32 min
Jun 27, 4:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Warren	29 min
Jun 27, 4:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taliaferro	10 min
Jun 27, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Heard, Troup	44 min
Jun 27, 4:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jefferson	23 min
Jun 27, 5:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Upson	33 min
Jun 27, 5:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Talbot	24 min
Jun 27, 5:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Coweta, Meriwether, Troup	34 min
Jun 27, 5:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jefferson, Washington	31 min
Jun 27, 5:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts	36 min
Jun 27, 5:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Monroe	32 min
Jun 27, 5:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Upson	24 min
Jun 27, 5:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clayton	32 min
Jun 27, 6:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jefferson	25 min
Jun 27, 6:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jones	36 min
Jun 27, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Crawford, Lamar, Monroe, Upson	47 min
Jun 27, 6:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Crawford, Houston, Jones, Peach, Twiggs	53 min
Jun 27, 6:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin	36 min
Jun 27, 6:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Crawford	17 min
Jun 27, 7:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Bleckley, Houston, Laurens, Twiggs, Wilkinson	34 min
Jun 27, 7:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Glascock, Washington	32 min
Jun 27, 7:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Peach	30 min
Jun 27, 7:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Johnson	31 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.