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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 30, 20158 counties in Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 30, 2015, 10:02 AM EDT for 8 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 58 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: Aug 30, 2015, 10:02 AM EDT (14:02 UTC)
Expired: Aug 30, 2015, 11:00 AM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

Counties Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Rockdale County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:03 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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 58 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: 36 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 605 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 149 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.

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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 Aug 30, 7:00 AM EDT, 3 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 7:00 AM EDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 30, 5:05 AM EDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 30, 9:04 AM EDT, 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 30, 9:09 AM EDT, 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 30, 10:02 AM 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
Aug 29, 9:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Talbot	22 min
Aug 29, 9:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Talbot	27 min
Aug 29, 10:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Talbot	23 min
Aug 30, 9:04 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Carroll, Douglas, Haralson, Paulding	26 min
Aug 30, 9:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clayton, DeKalb, Fayette, Fulton, Henry	36 min
Aug 30, 2:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Greene, Hancock	64 min
Aug 30, 3:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Hancock, Taliaferro, Warren, Wilkes	57 min
Aug 30, 3:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel, Toombs	53 min
Aug 30, 4:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Glascock, Jefferson, Taliaferro, Warren	55 min
Aug 30, 4:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel, Montgomery, Treutlen	52 min
Aug 30, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taliaferro	88 min
Aug 30, 4:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Peach	39 min
Aug 30, 4:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Candler	95 min
Aug 30, 5:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jefferson, Johnson	42 min
Aug 30, 5:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Houston, Peach	41 min
Aug 30, 5:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jefferson, Johnson	61 min
Aug 30, 6:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Laurens	65 min
Aug 30, 6:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jefferson	65 min
Aug 30, 7:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jefferson	81 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.