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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Apr 23, 2017, 6:45 AM EDT for 6 counties in 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
- Apr 23, 2017, 6:45 AM EDT (10:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2017, 7:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Barrow County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Madison County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Walton County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:47 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 331 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1789 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 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 Apr 23, 3:50 AM EDT, 2 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 23, 3:50 AM EDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Apr 23, 6:00 AM EDT, 45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 8:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Walker | 27 min |
| Apr 23, 6:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry, Rockdale, Walton | 45 min |
| Apr 23, 11:31 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Dade | 30 hr |
| Apr 23, 2:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Morgan | 31 min |
| Apr 23, 3:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Oconee | 30 min |
| Apr 23, 4:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Rockdale, Walton | 26 min |
| Apr 23, 4:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jasper | 30 min |
| Apr 23, 4:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jasper | 32 min |
| Apr 23, 4:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Macon | 30 min |
| Apr 23, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Macon, Peach | 23 min |
| Apr 23, 5:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jones | 23 min |
| Apr 23, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bleckley, Houston, Peach, Twiggs | 31 min |
| Apr 23, 5:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 4 hr |
| Apr 23, 5:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Newton, Rockdale, Walton | 4 hr |
| Apr 23, 5:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Twiggs | 31 min |
| Apr 23, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Twiggs, Wilkinson | 31 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.