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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 5, 2022Harris County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Apr 5, 2022, 8:33 AM EDT for Harris County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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 5, 2022, 8:33 AM EDT (12:33 UTC)
Expired: Apr 5, 2022, 9:00 AM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

County Harris County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:36 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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 80 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1643 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 259 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 Apr 5, 7:56 AM EDT, 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 5, 7:56 AM EDT, 37 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 5, 5:25 AM EDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 5, 8:33 AM 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
Apr 5, 8:51 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Henry, Spalding	24 min
Apr 5, 9:03 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris	27 min
Apr 5, 9:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Troup	31 min
Apr 5, 9:24 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Talbot, Upson	36 min
Apr 5, 9:36 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb, Crawford, Peach	24 min
Apr 5, 9:53 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Meriwether, Pike	37 min
Apr 5, 10:00 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Lamar, Monroe, Upson	30 min
Apr 5, 10:36 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts	24 min
Apr 5, 11:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin, Jones, Putnam	35 min
Apr 5, 11:48 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taliaferro, Warren, Wilkes	27 min
Apr 5, 1:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Marion, Muscogee, Stewart, Webster	53 min
Apr 5, 1:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Stewart	36 min
Apr 5, 1:58 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Marion	32 min
Apr 5, 2:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lamar, Marion, Talbot, Taylor, Upson	40 min
Apr 5, 2:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon, Marion, Schley, Sumter, Taylor, Webster	49 min
Apr 5, 2:28 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Marion, Talbot, Taylor	32 min
Apr 5, 2:30 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Cobb	4 hr
Apr 5, 2:44 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton and 1 more	3 hr
Apr 5, 2:48 PM EDT	Flood Watch	FFC	Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Chattahoochee, Crawford and 46 more	40 hr
Apr 5, 2:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Crawford, Jones, Lamar, Macon, Monroe and 2 more	42 min
Apr 5, 2:55 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	DeKalb	21 days
Apr 5, 2:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Crawford, Taylor	34 min
Apr 5, 2:57 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	DeKalb	6 hr
Apr 5, 3:05 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Forsyth, Fulton	35 hr
Apr 5, 3:08 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Fulton, Gwinnett	21 days
Apr 5, 3:08 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Macon	22 min
Apr 5, 3:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Banks, Jackson, Madison	33 min
Apr 5, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Crisp, Dooly, Houston, Macon, Peach and 4 more	47 min
Apr 5, 3:14 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton	4 hr
Apr 5, 3:15 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Muscogee	3 hr
Apr 5, 3:20 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Fulton	21 days
Apr 5, 3:20 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton	3 hr
Apr 5, 3:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Bibb, Jones	25 min
Apr 5, 3:27 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Houston, Macon, Peach	33 min
Apr 5, 3:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Bibb, Houston, Jones, Peach, Twiggs and 1 more	47 min
Apr 5, 3:31 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Fayette, Spalding	30 hr
Apr 5, 3:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Dooly, Houston, Pulaski	43 min
Apr 5, 3:50 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Houston, Twiggs, Wilkinson	25 min
Apr 5, 3:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Hancock, Putnam	31 min
Apr 5, 4:00 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Laurens, Pulaski	30 min
Apr 5, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Dodge, Johnson, Laurens, Pulaski, Telfair and 3 more	39 min
Apr 5, 4:13 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	FFC	Twiggs, Wilkinson	32 min
Apr 5, 4:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Dodge, Laurens	30 min
Apr 5, 4:16 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Forsyth	12 hr
Apr 5, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Johnson, Twiggs, Washington, Wilkinson	53 min
Apr 5, 4:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Dodge, Telfair, Wilcox	27 min
Apr 5, 4:29 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	63 min
Apr 5, 4:29 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	7 hr
Apr 5, 4:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Laurens	28 min
Apr 5, 4:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Hancock, Warren	11 min
Apr 5, 4:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Jefferson, Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery, Telfair and 3 more	43 min
Apr 5, 4:54 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Johnson, Laurens	36 min
Apr 5, 4:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens, Treutlen	33 min
Apr 5, 5:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Glascock, Jefferson, Washington	33 min
Apr 5, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Jefferson, Montgomery, Toombs	35 min
Apr 5, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Montgomery, Telfair, Toombs, Wheeler	20 min
Apr 5, 5:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Emanuel	20 min
Apr 5, 5:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Toombs	34 min
Apr 5, 6:22 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Gwinnett, Walton	5 hr
Apr 5, 6:50 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Washington, Wilkinson	27 hr
Apr 5, 7:52 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Crawford, Talbot, Taylor, Upson	3 days

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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.