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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 27, 2022Pickens County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 27, 2022, 3:25 PM EDT for Pickens 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
Aug 27, 2022, 3:25 PM EDT (19:25 UTC)
Expired
Aug 27, 2022, 4:00 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA
Hail
0.00 in
Wind
40

County Pickens County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 256 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2022-08-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1735 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2022-08-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1735 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
732 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 26, 8:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCUnion33 min
Aug 27, 7:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCPaulding32 min
Aug 27, 7:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCTreutlen36 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.