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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

September 10, 2015Fulton County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Sep 10, 2015, 3:13 PM EDT for Fulton County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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: Sep 10, 2015, 3:13 PM EDT (19:13 UTC)
Expired: Sep 10, 2015, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Fulton County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 220 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: 600 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -83 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 892 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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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 Sep 10, 2:50 PM EDT, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 10, 2:50 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 10, 8:58 AM EDT, 6 hours 15 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 10, 2:46 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 10, 2:48 PM EDT, 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 10, 2:53 PM EDT, 20 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 10, 2:59 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 10, 3:03 PM EDT, 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 10, 3:13 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
Sep 9, 8:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Walker	38 min
Sep 9, 8:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Forsyth	31 min
Sep 9, 8:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Carroll, Haralson, Heard	58 min
Sep 9, 8:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Walker, Whitfield	47 min
Sep 9, 9:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Carroll, Coweta, Douglas	31 min
Sep 9, 9:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Coweta, Douglas, Fayette	43 min
Sep 9, 9:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts, Henry	26 min
Sep 9, 10:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts	30 min
Sep 10, 12:48 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb, Jones, Monroe, Upson	42 min
Sep 10, 1:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Upson	33 min
Sep 10, 1:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crawford	31 min
Sep 10, 1:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jones, Monroe, Putnam	34 min
Sep 10, 1:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris	37 min
Sep 10, 2:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb, Crawford, Peach	29 min
Sep 10, 2:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin	47 min
Sep 10, 2:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkinson	41 min
Sep 10, 2:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Hancock	28 min
Sep 10, 2:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Sumter	34 min
Sep 10, 2:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cobb	29 min
Sep 10, 2:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Upson	27 min
Sep 10, 2:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taliaferro	37 min
Sep 10, 2:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Heard	31 min
Sep 10, 3:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Hancock, Warren	42 min
Sep 10, 3:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Glascock	42 min
Sep 10, 3:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taylor	36 min
Sep 10, 3:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Twiggs, Wilkinson	29 min
Sep 10, 3:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Washington	37 min
Sep 10, 3:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	DeKalb	34 min
Sep 10, 3:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crawford, Peach	46 min
Sep 10, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fayette	37 min
Sep 10, 4:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkinson	25 min
Sep 10, 4:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Henry, Spalding	50 min
Sep 10, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Oglethorpe	29 min
Sep 10, 4:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Laurens	26 min
Sep 10, 4:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Sumter	24 min
Sep 10, 4:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Morgan	37 min
Sep 10, 4:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Houston	35 min
Sep 10, 4:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Newton	32 min
Sep 10, 5:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts, Jasper, Lamar, Monroe	43 min
Sep 10, 5:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Sumter	24 min
Sep 10, 5:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bleckley	35 min
Sep 10, 5:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkes	48 min
Sep 10, 5:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Greene, Morgan	44 min
Sep 10, 5:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris, Talbot, Upson	32 min
Sep 10, 5:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jasper, Putnam	44 min
Sep 10, 5:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Greene	31 min
Sep 10, 6:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jones	31 min
Sep 10, 6:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Upson	26 min
Sep 10, 6:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Douglas, Fulton	28 min
Sep 10, 6:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris	27 min
Sep 10, 6:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	DeKalb	37 min
Sep 10, 6:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fulton	32 min
Sep 10, 7:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clayton	25 min
Sep 10, 7:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	DeKalb	31 min
Sep 10, 7:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Henry	27 min
Sep 10, 7:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Douglas	37 min
Sep 10, 7:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clayton	32 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.