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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 23, 2017Banks County, Jackson County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at May 23, 2017, 10:55 PM EDT for Banks County, Jackson County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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: May 23, 2017, 10:55 PM EDT (02:55 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2017, 11:30 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 40

Counties Banks County, GA, Jackson County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 351 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: 72 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -140 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 756 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 205 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 218 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

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 May 23, 7:09 PM EDT, 3 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 7:09 PM EDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 23, 3:55 PM EDT, 7 hours before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 23, 10:18 PM EDT, 37 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 23, 10:26 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 23, 10:29 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 23, 10:33 PM EDT, 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 23, 10:46 PM EDT, 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 23, 10:55 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 8:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow, Floyd, Polk	51 min
May 23, 8:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cherokee, Cobb, Paulding	44 min
May 23, 9:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Haralson, Paulding	49 min
May 23, 9:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cherokee, Cobb, Forsyth	45 min
May 23, 10:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Banks, Barrow, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson	49 min
May 24, 12:33 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel, Laurens, Treutlen	27 min
May 24, 2:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb, Jones	30 min
May 24, 9:39 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Whitfield	36 min
May 24, 9:47 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Murray, Whitfield	28 min
May 24, 9:56 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattooga, Floyd	49 min
May 24, 10:17 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Floyd	14 min
May 24, 10:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gordon	29 min
May 24, 10:48 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Gordon, Murray	27 min
May 24, 11:08 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Gilmer, Murray	23 min
May 24, 11:13 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson, Gilmer, Gordon, Murray, Pickens	33 min
May 24, 11:22 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Pulaski, Wilcox	23 min
May 24, 11:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crisp	33 min
May 24, 11:29 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Fannin, Gilmer	31 min
May 24, 11:31 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Crisp, Dooly	29 min
May 24, 11:45 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Pulaski	30 min
May 24, 11:54 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Crisp, Dooly	17 min
May 24, 11:56 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Union	14 min
May 24, 12:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Pulaski	65 min
May 24, 12:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Floyd	36 min
May 24, 12:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb, Peach	33 min
May 24, 1:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin, Glascock, Hancock, Warren	28 min
May 24, 1:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow	23 min
May 24, 1:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Dodge, Laurens	28 min
May 24, 1:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	31 min
May 24, 2:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Laurens	31 min
May 24, 2:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Dodge, Laurens	37 min
May 24, 2:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Johnson	25 min
May 24, 2:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Dodge	36 min
May 24, 2:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dooly	63 min
May 24, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jackson	29 min
May 24, 3:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Walton	28 min
May 24, 3:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Lumpkin, White	26 min
May 24, 3:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	36 min
May 24, 5:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Telfair	30 min
May 24, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper, Jones, Monroe	25 min
May 24, 5:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel	33 min
May 24, 5:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jones, Monroe	24 min
May 24, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper, Morgan, Putnam	30 min
May 24, 7:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Houston, Twiggs	23 min
May 24, 7:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Jones, Twiggs, Wilkinson	48 min

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Special Weather Statements in Georgia, 2017 Every special weather statement in 2017

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.