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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 1, 2016Dawson County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 1, 2016, 9:07 PM EDT for Dawson County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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 1, 2016, 9:07 PM EDT (01:07 UTC)
Expired
Aug 1, 2016, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA

County Dawson County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 118 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2016-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 268 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2016-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
268 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-118 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1282 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

830 
WWUS82 KFFC 020107
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
907 PM EDT MON AUG 1 2016
 
GAZ013-014-021-022-020130-
DAWSON GA-PICKENS GA-CHEROKEE GA-FORSYTH GA-
907 PM EDT MON AUG 1 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN DAWSON...SOUTHEASTERN
PICKENS...NORTHEASTERN CHEROKEE AND NORTHWESTERN FORSYTH COUNTIES
UNTIL 930 PM EDT...

AT 907 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR NELSON...OR 8 MILES
WEST OF DAWSONVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

  HAZARD...40 TO 50 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
CUMMING...DAWSONVILLE...DOUGHERTY...DREW...MATT...HIGHTOWER...MCKEE...JUNO...
DUCKTOWN...SILVER CITY...COAL MOUNTAIN AND HOLLIS LATHEM RESERVOIR.

LAT...LON 3452 8423 3437 8398 3436 8398 3434 8397
      3434 8396 3418 8422 3440 8432
TIME...MOT...LOC 0107Z 310DEG 16KT 3439 8427 

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 1, 8:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCForsyth, Gwinnett, Hall30 min
Aug 1, 8:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBartow41 min
Aug 1, 8:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDawson39 min
Aug 1, 8:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCForsyth27 min
Aug 1, 8:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBartow, Floyd31 min
Aug 1, 9:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCWhite24 min
Aug 1, 9:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCForsyth44 min
Aug 1, 10:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCForsyth43 min
Aug 2, 1:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCPaulding37 min
Aug 2, 2:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDouglas, Fulton29 min
Aug 2, 2:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCFulton34 min
Aug 2, 2:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCClayton, DeKalb, Fayette, Rockdale23 min
Aug 2, 3:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCRockdale30 min
Aug 2, 3:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDeKalb, Gwinnett, Newton, Rockdale, Walton35 min
Aug 2, 3:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMadison29 min
Aug 2, 3:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCBarrow23 min
Aug 2, 3:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCOglethorpe28 min
Aug 2, 3:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCClarke, Oconee31 min
Aug 2, 4:04 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMorgan26 min
Aug 2, 4:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGreene, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Wilkes52 min
Aug 2, 4:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCJasper33 min
Aug 2, 4:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMonroe46 min
Aug 2, 4:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHarris29 min
Aug 2, 5:08 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHancock37 min
Aug 2, 5:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCWarren35 min
Aug 2, 5:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCHancock23 min
Aug 2, 5:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCChattahoochee, Muscogee35 min
Aug 2, 5:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCWilkinson29 min
Aug 2, 5:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCrawford25 min
Aug 2, 6:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCTwiggs29 min
Aug 2, 7:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCEmanuel27 min
Aug 2, 7:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDooly24 min
Aug 2, 7:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCLaurens33 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.