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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 18, 2019Carroll County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 18, 2019, 1:08 PM EDT for Carroll County, Georgia. It was in force for 22 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: Jul 18, 2019, 1:08 PM EDT (17:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 2019, 1:30 PM EDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 40

County Carroll County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:12 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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 64 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: 801 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1024 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 5 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 Jul 18, 10:58 AM EDT, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 10:58 AM EDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 18, 5:34 AM EDT, 7 hours 34 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 18, 8:18 AM EDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 18, 1:08 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
Jul 18, 12:06 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattooga	24 min
Jul 18, 2:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dade	29 min
Jul 18, 1:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Henry	23 min
Jul 18, 1:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Coweta	36 min
Jul 18, 1:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Coweta	29 min
Jul 18, 2:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fayette	26 min
Jul 18, 2:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris	31 min
Jul 18, 2:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clayton	29 min
Jul 18, 2:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Rockdale	37 min
Jul 18, 2:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris, Talbot	31 min
Jul 18, 2:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Paulding	31 min
Jul 18, 3:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Talbot	37 min
Jul 18, 3:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Lincoln	19 min
Jul 18, 3:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	DeKalb	33 min
Jul 18, 3:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cobb	25 min
Jul 18, 3:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkes	32 min
Jul 18, 4:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cobb	29 min
Jul 18, 4:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Stewart	24 min
Jul 18, 5:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taliaferro, Wilkes	37 min
Jul 18, 5:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Webster	29 min
Jul 18, 5:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dawson	26 min
Jul 18, 5:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Banks	37 min
Jul 18, 5:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Taliaferro, Wilkes	37 min
Jul 18, 5:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Pickens	26 min
Jul 18, 5:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Sumter, Webster	37 min
Jul 18, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Glascock, Jefferson	33 min
Jul 18, 5:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dooly, Pulaski	32 min
Jul 18, 6:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkes	30 min
Jul 18, 6:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel	28 min
Jul 18, 6:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jefferson	36 min
Jul 18, 6:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Sumter	33 min
Jul 18, 6:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Johnson	27 min
Jul 18, 6:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crisp, Dodge	43 min
Jul 18, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Jefferson, Johnson	30 min
Jul 18, 6:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Murray	37 min
Jul 18, 7:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fannin	49 min
Jul 18, 7:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Toombs	38 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.