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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 27, 2011Baldwin County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at May 27, 2011, 2:21 PM EDT for Baldwin 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: May 27, 2011, 2:21 PM EDT (18:21 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2011, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Baldwin County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 778 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 537 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

948 
WWUS82 KFFC 271821
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
221 PM EDT FRI MAY 27 2011

GAZ060-072-073-271845-
221 PM EDT FRI MAY 27 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR DIME SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN PUTNAM...JONES AND BALDWIN COUNTIES UNTIL 245 PM EDT...

AT 218 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AROUND BROWNS CROSSING...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DIME SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS THEY MOVE
ACROSS PUTNAM...JONES AND BALDWIN COUNTIES THROUGH 245 PM EDT. SOME
LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE COOPERS...BROWNS
CROSSING...MOUNTAIN SPRINGS...GREENBERRY CROSSROADS...ETHRIDGE...
JAMES...BLOUNTSVILLE...HADDOCK...ALLENWOOD...SCOTTSBORO...PANCRAS...
MERIWETHER...HARDWICK...MILLEDGEVILLE AND PLANT HARLEE BRANCH. BRIEF
HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.

EXPECT FREQUENT LIGHTNING...WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND BRIEF HEAVY
DOWNPOURS ACROSS PUTNAM...JONES AND BALDWIN COUNTIES...INCLUDING
AREAS AROUND COOPERS...BROWNS CROSSING...MOUNTAIN SPRINGS...
GREENBERRY CROSSROADS...ETHRIDGE...JAMES...BLOUNTSVILLE...HADDOCK...
ALLENWOOD...SCOTTSBORO...PANCRAS...MERIWETHER...HARDWICK...
MILLEDGEVILLE AND PLANT HARLEE BRANCH. 

SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORIES ARE ISSUED FOR WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...
HAIL LESS THAN THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...OR SIGNIFICANT CLOUD-TO-GROUND
LIGHTNING.

&&

LAT...LON 3305 8305 3293 8336 3284 8352 3286 8354
      3316 8349 3324 8325 3319 8327 3315 8309
      3311 8312 3308 8312 3305 8310 3308 8305
      3307 8304
TIME...MOT...LOC 1820Z 250DEG 31KT 3311 8335

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 9:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jefferson, Johnson	38 min
May 26, 9:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Montgomery, Toombs, Treutlen	51 min
May 26, 9:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel	26 min
May 26, 10:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Jefferson	41 min
May 27, 12:53 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fayette	22 min
May 27, 1:37 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Washington	38 min
May 27, 2:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Johnson	32 min
May 27, 2:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Coweta	43 min
May 27, 2:26 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Coweta	34 min
May 27, 2:35 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jefferson	40 min
May 27, 2:50 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton	2 hr
May 27, 2:55 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Coweta, Fayette	50 min
May 27, 4:49 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton	90 min
May 27, 10:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jefferson	36 min
May 27, 11:32 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Telfair	28 min
May 27, 12:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taliaferro	32 min
May 27, 1:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkes	29 min
May 27, 1:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taliaferro, Wilkes	59 min
May 27, 1:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb, Jones	31 min
May 27, 2:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taliaferro	30 min
May 27, 2:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hancock, Taliaferro, Warren, Wilkes	52 min
May 27, 2:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Glascock, Hancock, Warren	46 min
May 27, 3:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Glascock, Hancock, Taliaferro, Warren	46 min
May 27, 4:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkinson	28 min
May 27, 4:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkinson	43 min
May 27, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens, Wilkinson	52 min
May 27, 5:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel	21 min
May 27, 5:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Johnson	48 min
May 27, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	46 min
May 27, 5:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jefferson, Johnson, Washington	33 min
May 27, 5:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Telfair	39 min
May 27, 6:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel	46 min
May 27, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens, Treutlen	50 min
May 27, 6:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Montgomery, Toombs	49 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.