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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 12, 2016, 6:21 PM EDT for Upson County, Georgia. It was in force for 39 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 12, 2016, 6:21 PM EDT (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2016, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Upson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 187 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1110 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
688
WWUS82 KFFC 122221
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
621 PM EDT TUE JUL 12 2016
GAZ067>069-079-122300-
TALBOT GA-UPSON GA-PIKE GA-MERIWETHER GA-
621 PM EDT TUE JUL 12 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN TALBOT...NORTHERN
UPSON...SOUTHERN PIKE AND SOUTHEASTERN MERIWETHER COUNTIES UNTIL 700
PM EDT...
AT 620 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR WOODLAND...OR WEST OF
THOMASTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
HAZARD...UP TO 40 MPH WIND...PEA SIZED HAIL AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING.
IMPACT...PEOPLE OUTDOORS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. EXPECT
MINOR DAMAGE TO TREE LIMBS AND BLOWING AROUND OF LIGHT...
UNSECURED OBJECTS. LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURE'S LEADING
KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE
CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. ELECTRICAL
APPLIANCES SHOULD NOT BE USED UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY.
SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE THOMASTON...LINCOLN
PARK...SUNSET VILLAGE...HANNAHS MILL...CREST... PLEASANT HILL...
LIFSEY SPRINGS...REDBONE CROSSROADS...ATWATER...SUNNYSIDE AND
SPREWELL BLUFF STATE PARK.
LAT...LON 3276 8449 3287 8459 3309 8440 3290 8418
TIME...MOT...LOC 2220Z 227DEG 10KT 3285 8449
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 8:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Clarke, Hall, Jackson, Madison and 1 more | 44 min |
| Jul 11, 8:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Towns, Union, White | 40 min |
| Jul 12, 4:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Stewart | 49 min |
| Jul 12, 5:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Muscogee | 39 min |
| Jul 12, 5:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 49 min |
| Jul 12, 5:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Stewart | 42 min |
| Jul 12, 5:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Muscogee | 51 min |
| Jul 12, 5:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Harris, Muscogee | 43 min |
| Jul 12, 5:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 47 min |
| Jul 12, 6:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 41 min |
| Jul 12, 6:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson | 41 min |
| Jul 12, 6:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 41 min |
| Jul 12, 6:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether, Troup | 52 min |
| Jul 12, 6:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilcox | 42 min |
| Jul 12, 7:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Upson | 27 min |
| Jul 12, 7:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lamar, Pike, Upson | 45 min |
Nearby
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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.