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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 4, 2016Pike County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2016, 1:52 PM EDT for Pike County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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 4, 2016, 1:52 PM EDT (17:52 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2016, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Pike County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:51 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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 39 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: 466 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1045 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

497 
WWUS82 KFFC 041752
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
152 PM EDT THU AUG 4 2016
 
GAZ068>070-041830-
UPSON GA-PIKE GA-LAMAR GA-
152 PM EDT THU AUG 4 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN UPSON...SOUTHERN PIKE
AND SOUTHWESTERN LAMAR COUNTIES UNTIL 230 PM EDT...

AT 151 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR MEANSVILLE...OR NEAR
ZEBULON. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

  HAZARD...UP TO 40 MPH WIND...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING 
           AND HEAVY RAIN. 

  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. 
           MOTORISTS SHOULD SLOW DOWN AND BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE 
           LOSS OF CONTROL DUE TO HYDROPLANING. ALSO...THE HEAVY 
           RAIN MAY CAUSE TEMPORARY STREET FLOODING OR ROAD PONDING 
           IN SLOW DRAINAGE AREAS. WHEN WATER COVERS THE 
           ROAD...REMEMBER TO TURN AROUND DON'T DROWN. 

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE
THOMASTON...ZEBULON...MEANSVILLE...THE ROCK...HANNAHS MILL...LIFSEY
SPRINGS...ATWATER AND PIEDMONT.

LAT...LON 3315 8435 3300 8415 3288 8436 3306 8449
TIME...MOT...LOC 1751Z 324DEG 4KT 3304 8436 

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 3, 9:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	White	33 min
Aug 3, 11:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Hall	27 min
Aug 4, 6:06 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Forsyth	24 min
Aug 4, 7:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Forsyth	43 min
Aug 4, 2:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Talbot	25 min
Aug 4, 3:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gordon	36 min
Aug 4, 3:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Troup	34 min
Aug 4, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee, Gilmer, Gordon, Pickens	35 min
Aug 4, 4:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Paulding	25 min
Aug 4, 5:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Johnson	37 min
Aug 4, 6:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Haralson	33 min
Aug 4, 6:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fulton	33 min
Aug 4, 7:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	DeKalb	28 min
Aug 4, 7:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Carroll	37 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.