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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 14, 2015, 11:31 AM EDT for Towns County, Union County, Georgia. It was in force for 59 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
- Jul 14, 2015, 11:31 AM EDT (15:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2015, 12:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Towns County, GA, Union County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:34 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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 1704 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 988 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.1
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 Jul 14, 7:17 AM EDT, 4 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 7:17 AM EDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 440 AM EDT TUE JUL 14 2015 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-151000- 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- 440 AM EDT TUE JUL 14 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER NORTH AND MUCH OF CENTRAL GEORGIA...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED... DAMAGING WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. DISCUSSION... UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WITHIN THE NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL ALLOW FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP. SOME STORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE WITH THE GREATEST THREAT OVER NORTH GEORGIA. DUE TO THE NATURE OF THE DISTURBANCES ALOFT...2 ROUNDS OF SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE...MOST SO FOR NORTH GEORGIA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ON WEDNESDAY FOR CENTRAL AND PORTIONS OF NORTH GEORGIA WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING BEING THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FOR MAINLY CENTRAL GEORGIA ON THURSDAY AND ACROSS THE AREA FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT REQUESTED AT THIS TIME...BUT SPOTTERS NEED TO REMAIN ALERT FOR LATER THIS AFTERNOON...AND ARE ENCOURAGED TO SUBMIT REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH THE WEB BY GOING TO WEATHER.GOV/ATLANTA.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 11:31 AM EDT, 0 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 8:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 29 min |
| Jul 14, 3:24 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Chattahoochee, Crawford, Crisp and 29 more | 16 hr |
| Jul 14, 11:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Towns, Union | 35 min |
| Jul 14, 12:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, White | 49 min |
| Jul 14, 12:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Towns, Union | 34 min |
| Jul 14, 12:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 23 min |
| Jul 14, 12:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pulaski | 30 min |
| Jul 14, 12:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | White | 32 min |
| Jul 14, 1:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson, Washington | 35 min |
| Jul 14, 1:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 25 min |
| Jul 14, 1:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 23 min |
| Jul 14, 1:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lumpkin | 32 min |
| Jul 14, 1:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, Union, White | 43 min |
| Jul 14, 1:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 26 min |
| Jul 14, 2:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens, Treutlen | 28 min |
| Jul 14, 2:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 25 min |
| Jul 14, 2:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge, Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery, Telfair and 3 more | 59 min |
| Jul 14, 2:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkes | 42 min |
| Jul 14, 3:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkes | 27 min |
| Jul 14, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Towns, Union | 58 min |
| Jul 14, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Fannin, Murray, Walker, Whitfield | 51 min |
| Jul 14, 6:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gilmer, Lumpkin, White | 24 min |
| Jul 14, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin, White | 42 min |
| Jul 14, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Murray, Walker, Whitfield | 37 min |
| Jul 14, 7:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks, Dawson, Gordon, Hall, Pickens | 29 min |
| Jul 14, 7:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Gilmer, Gordon, Pickens | 49 min |
| Jul 14, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Walker, Whitfield | 51 min |
| Jul 14, 7:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth, Fulton, Pickens | 47 min |
| Jul 14, 7:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hall, Jackson, Madison | 24 min |
| Jul 14, 7:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Gordon, Murray, Whitfield | 49 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.