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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 24, 2016Fayette County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 24, 2016, 3:50 PM EDT for Fayette County, Georgia. It was in force for 55 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 24, 2016, 3:50 PM EDT (19:50 UTC)
Expired: Aug 24, 2016, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Fayette County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 5 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: 137 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 731 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 24, 12:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Madison	40 min
Aug 24, 1:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	DeKalb	64 min
Aug 24, 2:02 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Clayton, DeKalb, Henry	6 hr
Aug 24, 2:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cobb, Fulton	65 min
Aug 24, 3:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Clayton, Fayette, Fulton	6 hr
Aug 24, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Douglas	67 min
Aug 24, 4:13 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Coweta, Fayette, Meriwether, Spalding	6 hr
Aug 24, 4:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Coweta	64 min
Aug 24, 4:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Meriwether	66 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Georgia, 2016 Every special weather statement in 2016

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.