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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 18, 2016, 4:15 AM EDT for Upson County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 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 18, 2016, 4:15 AM EDT (08:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2016, 5:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Upson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:17 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 1764 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1645 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 18, 2:12 AM EDT, 2 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 18, 2:12 AM EDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 18, 4:15 AM EDT, 0 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 |
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| Aug 17, 8:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gwinnett | 28 min |
| Aug 17, 8:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Spalding | 37 min |
| Aug 17, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 46 min |
| Aug 17, 9:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clarke, Oconee, Oglethorpe | 58 min |
| Aug 17, 10:11 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Clarke, Oconee, Oglethorpe | 6 hr |
| Aug 18, 1:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Upson | 29 min |
| Aug 18, 1:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hancock | 26 min |
| Aug 18, 1:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lumpkin | 30 min |
| Aug 18, 1:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkes | 23 min |
| Aug 18, 2:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Washington | 35 min |
| Aug 18, 2:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 43 min |
| Aug 18, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Taliaferro | 25 min |
| Aug 18, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Laurens | 39 min |
| Aug 18, 3:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 30 min |
| Aug 18, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 18 min |
| Aug 18, 3:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa | 50 min |
| Aug 18, 4:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 30 min |
| Aug 18, 4:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 24 min |
| Aug 18, 4:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wheeler | 35 min |
| Aug 18, 4:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 33 min |
| Aug 18, 4:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Polk | 33 min |
| Aug 18, 4:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Whitfield | 27 min |
| Aug 18, 4:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow | 25 min |
| Aug 18, 4:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fayette | 25 min |
| Aug 18, 5:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Clarke | 6 hr |
| Aug 18, 5:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb, Paulding | 25 min |
| Aug 18, 5:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade | 35 min |
| Aug 18, 5:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb | 39 min |
| Aug 18, 6:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gwinnett | 47 min |
| Aug 18, 6:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Forsyth | 27 min |
| Aug 18, 6:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Walton | 24 min |
| Aug 18, 6:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb | 61 min |
| Aug 18, 6:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Barrow, Jackson | 24 min |
| Aug 18, 7:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Barrow, Clarke, Jackson, Madison | 44 min |
| Aug 18, 7:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp | 40 min |
| Aug 18, 7:39 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Barrow, Jackson | 6 hr |
| Aug 18, 7:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hall | 37 min |
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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.