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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2016, 6:58 PM EDT for Spalding County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 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 5, 2016, 6:58 PM EDT (22:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2016, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Spalding County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 15 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
- 722 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 765 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
675
WWUS82 KFFC 052258
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
658 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 2016
GAZ054-056-052345-
SPALDING GA-FAYETTE GA-
658 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WESTERN SPALDING AND SOUTHEASTERN
FAYETTE COUNTIES UNTIL 745 PM EDT...
AT 658 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER BROOKS...OR 10 MILES
WEST OF GRIFFIN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 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
GRIFFIN...BROOKS...ZETELLA...DIGBEY...VAUGHN...HIGHLAND MILLS...BIRDIE...
LAKE HORTON...ROVER AND EXPERIMENT.
LAT...LON 3336 8439 3335 8439 3335 8438 3328 8425
3319 8427 3319 8437 3320 8438 3320 8439
3321 8440 3321 8445 3328 8452 3329 8451
TIME...MOT...LOC 2258Z 314DEG 4KT 3327 8445
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 9:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clarke, Jackson, Madison, Oglethorpe | 30 min |
| Aug 4, 10:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clarke | 35 min |
| Aug 4, 10:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clarke | 45 min |
| Aug 4, 11:36 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | FFC | Clarke, Oconee, Oglethorpe | 6 hr |
| Aug 4, 11:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gilmer | 37 min |
| Aug 5, 12:37 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dawson | 53 min |
| Aug 5, 2:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Talbot | 39 min |
| Aug 5, 2:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Floyd | 37 min |
| Aug 5, 2:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow, Floyd | 49 min |
| Aug 5, 3:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Talbot, Taylor | 42 min |
| Aug 5, 3:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Polk | 30 min |
| Aug 5, 3:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Paulding | 42 min |
| Aug 5, 4:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson | 52 min |
| Aug 5, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson | 17 min |
| Aug 5, 4:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Douglas | 36 min |
| Aug 5, 5:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Douglas | 49 min |
| Aug 5, 5:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pickens | 33 min |
| Aug 5, 6:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 37 min |
| Aug 5, 6:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether, Pike | 50 min |
| Aug 5, 7:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pike, Upson | 30 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.