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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Sep 1, 2017, 12:18 AM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 42 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
- Sep 1, 2017, 12:18 AM EDT (04:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 1, 2017, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Wind
- 50
Counties Chattooga County, GA, Dade County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Walker County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 292 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 859 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
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 31, 8:45 PM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 31, 8:45 PM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
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Local storm report, Aug 31, 9:36 PM EDT, 2 hours 42 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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| Sep 1, 1:11 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Walker, Whitfield | 49 min |
| Sep 1, 2:14 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattooga | 46 min |
| Sep 1, 5:41 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll, Douglas | 49 min |
| Sep 1, 6:51 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Paulding | 39 min |
| Sep 1, 7:29 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee, Paulding | 46 min |
| Sep 1, 7:52 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dawson, Lumpkin | 38 min |
| Sep 1, 8:18 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb, Forsyth, Fulton | 27 min |
| Sep 1, 8:47 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb, Dawson, Douglas, Forsyth, Fulton | 43 min |
| Sep 1, 12:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel, Montgomery | 28 min |
| Sep 1, 1:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Montgomery, Toombs | 50 min |
| Sep 1, 2:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 26 min |
| Sep 1, 3:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 26 min |
| Sep 1, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Toombs | 43 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.