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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Dec 28, 2015, 5:40 PM EST for 17 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 110 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
- Dec 28, 2015, 5:40 PM EST (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 28, 2015, 7:30 PM EST
- In force
- 110 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Bartow County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Murray County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, Walker County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 293 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
- 48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 661 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 324 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 347 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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</html>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 Dec 28, 2:58 PM EST, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 28, 2:58 PM EST, 2 hours 42 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 425 AM EST MON DEC 28 2015 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-291100- 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- 425 AM EST MON DEC 28 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... ...HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ALONG WITH A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA AND PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA... AS A STORM SYSTEM MOVES INTO THE TENNESSEE VALLEY TODAY...WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO TONIGHT. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE ACROSS NORTH AND PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA WITH THE MAIN RISK BEING DAMAGING WINDS. THE MAIN THREAT AREA IS GENERALLY WEST OF A LINE FROM COLUMBUS TO WASHINGTON...AND GENERALLY BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON AND MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO POSSIBLE WHICH COULD PRODUCE MORE FLOODING. FOR THIS REASON A FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTH AND PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA FOR THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE HEAVY RAIN...SEE THE LATEST FLOOD WATCH STATEMENT /ATLFFAFFC/. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY ACROSS THE AREA ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY FOR MAINLY NORTH AND PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL GEORGIA. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY WIND DAMAGE OR FLOODING THROUGH THE WEB BY GOING TO WEATHER.GOV/ATLANTA.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Dec 28, 5:40 PM EST, 0 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 28, 12:51 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Telfair, Wheeler | 16 days |
| Dec 28, 12:51 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton | 3 days |
| Dec 28, 12:51 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 42 hr |
| Dec 28, 12:51 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Rockdale | 67 hr |
| Dec 28, 12:51 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Newton, Rockdale | 3 days |
| Dec 28, 12:51 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Barrow, Jackson | 53 hr |
| Dec 28, 5:43 PM EST | Wind Advisory | FFC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 28, 5:57 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris | 33 min |
| Dec 28, 6:44 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Coweta, Fayette, Harris, Meriwether, Muscogee | 31 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Georgia, 2015Every special weather statement in 2015
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.