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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at May 13, 2016, 12:15 AM EDT for DeKalb 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
- May 13, 2016, 12:15 AM EDT (04:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2016, 12:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County DeKalb County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 358 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
- 197 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 758 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted.
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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 May 12, 7:52 PM EDT, 4 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 12, 7:52 PM EDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 254 PM EDT THU MAY 12 2016 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-131900- 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- 254 PM EDT THU MAY 12 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... ...A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT PERIOD... WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED... STRONG TO DAMAGING WINDS... DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. DISCUSSION... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG AND AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT THAT WILL PUSH INTO NORTHWEST GEORGIA LATE THIS EVENING... THEN INTO CENTRAL GEORGIA LATE TONIGHT. A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE... MAINLY THIS EVENING ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA... THEN POSSIBLY LATE TONIGHT OR EARLY FRIDAY MORNING ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE STORMS SHOULD PUSH SOUTH AND EAST OF THE AREA BY EARLY FRIDAY AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS EARLY ON FRIDAY AND A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BE STRONG ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE NEXT CHANCE FOR STORMS WILL BE TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY OF NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT REQUESTED BUT SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SUBMIT REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH THE WEB BY GOING TO WEATHER.GOV/ATLANTA.|
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 12, 7:23 PM EDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 8:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lamar, Spalding | 29 min |
| May 12, 10:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson | 29 min |
| May 13, 12:25 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry | 35 min |
| May 13, 1:18 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson | 42 min |
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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.