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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Feb 13, 2020, 4:51 AM EST for Floyd County, Haralson County, Polk County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 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
- Feb 13, 2020, 4:51 AM EST (09:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2020, 5:15 AM EST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Wind
- 40
Counties Floyd County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Polk County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:53 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 272 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
- 548 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 99 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 775 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 947 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 Feb 13, 3:13 AM EST, 1 hour 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 13, 3:13 AM EST, 1 hour 38 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Feb 13, 4:51 AM EST, 0 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Feb 12, 8:34 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade | 56 min |
| Feb 12, 9:20 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Walker, Whitfield | 55 min |
| Feb 13, 5:14 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow, Carroll, Floyd, Haralson, Paulding, Polk | 46 min |
| Feb 13, 5:42 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb, Dawson, Forsyth | 48 min |
| Feb 13, 5:46 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta, Douglas, Fulton, Heard | 59 min |
| Feb 13, 6:00 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 60 min |
| Feb 13, 6:16 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow, Polk | 119 min |
| Feb 13, 6:27 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall, Lumpkin and 1 more | 63 min |
| Feb 13, 6:42 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, Coweta, Fayette | 63 min |
| Feb 13, 6:53 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Pike, Troup | 52 min |
| Feb 13, 6:54 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Harris, Meriwether, Pike, Troup | 66 min |
| Feb 13, 7:00 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Jackson, Rockdale | 60 min |
| Feb 13, 7:17 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Butts, Henry, Lamar, Newton, Pike, Spalding and 1 more | 58 min |
| Feb 13, 7:31 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clarke, Madison, Newton, Oconee, Walton | 59 min |
| Feb 13, 8:11 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion, Talbot, Upson | 34 min |
| Feb 13, 8:19 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Butts, Jasper, Lamar, Monroe | 26 min |
| Feb 13, 8:25 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Fulton, Gwinnett | 21 days |
| Feb 13, 8:30 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe | 30 min |
| Feb 13, 8:50 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crawford, Macon, Marion, Schley, Stewart, Taylor and 1 more | 25 min |
| Feb 13, 8:55 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jasper, Jones, Monroe, Putnam | 35 min |
| Feb 13, 9:04 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 21 days |
| Feb 13, 9:06 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene, Taliaferro, Wilkes | 24 min |
| Feb 13, 9:09 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton | 32 hr |
| Feb 13, 9:27 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb, Crawford, Macon, Peach, Schley, Sumter and 2 more | 33 min |
| Feb 13, 9:38 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin, Hancock, Jones, Putnam, Taliaferro, Wilkes | 37 min |
| Feb 13, 10:00 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dooly, Houston, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 45 min |
| Feb 13, 10:21 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock, Warren, Washington | 24 min |
| Feb 13, 10:44 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock, Jefferson, Washington | 46 min |
| Feb 13, 10:46 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Montgomery, Telfair, Wheeler | 7 days |
| Feb 13, 11:19 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gordon, Murray, Whitfield | 21 days |
| Feb 13, 11:19 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 25 hr |
| Feb 13, 11:27 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge, Laurens, Treutlen, Wilcox | 48 min |
| Feb 13, 11:28 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jefferson, Johnson | 47 min |
| Feb 13, 12:14 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel, Montgomery, Telfair, Treutlen, Wheeler | 46 min |
| Feb 13, 12:47 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett, Walton | 6 hr |
| Feb 13, 12:59 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery, Telfair, Toombs | 46 min |
| Feb 13, 1:02 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Catoosa | 21 days |
| Feb 13, 1:09 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 6 hr |
| Feb 13, 3:09 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 21 min |
| Feb 13, 5:50 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Cherokee | 15 hr |
| Feb 13, 6:28 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Floyd | 35 hr |
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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.