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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 14, 2015Pulaski County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 14, 2015, 12:45 PM EDT for Pulaski 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: Jul 14, 2015, 12:45 PM EDT (16:45 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 2015, 1:15 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Pulaski County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:49 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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 159 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: 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

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The text

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

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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 Jul 14, 12:20 PM EDT, 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 12:20 PM EDT, 25 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 14, 4:40 AM EDT, 8 hours 5 minutes before

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, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 14, 12:37 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 14, 12:45 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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, 11:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Towns, Union	59 min
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, 12:58 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.