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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 16, 2011Chattahoochee County, Muscogee County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jun 16, 2011, 12:21 AM EDT for Chattahoochee County, Muscogee County, Georgia. It was in force for 39 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 2011, 12:21 AM EDT (04:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2011, 1:00 AM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

Counties Chattahoochee County, GA, Muscogee County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 16, 12:28 AM EDT	HAIL 0.5	1 S Columbus, GA
Jun 16, 12:42 AM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	2 Ese Columbus, GA	MUSCOGEE COUNTY 911 RELAYED REPORTS OF A DOWNED TREE AND A DOWNED POWERLINE IN COLUMBUS.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 117 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: 1682 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2119 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.4

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The text

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

991 
WWUS82 KFFC 160421
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
1221 AM EDT THU JUN 16 2011

GAZ089>091-102-160500-
1221 AM EDT THU JUN 16 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NICKEL SIZED HAIL IN STEWART...
MUSCOGEE...MARION AND CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTIES UNTIL 100 AM EDT...

AT 1218 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER FORT BENNING/LAWSON ARMY AIR FIELD...MOVING
EAST AT 20 MPH.

THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE NICKEL SIZED HAIL...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH AS IT MOVES ACROSS
STEWART...MUSCOGEE...MARION AND CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTIES THROUGH 100 AM
EDT. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE FORT
BENNING/LAWSON ARMY AIR FIELD...AVONDALE...CARTER ACRES...COLUMBUS...
ROSE HILL...BIBB CITY...LAUREL HILLS...BENNING PARK...BENNING
HILLS...BATTLE PARK...CUSTER ROAD TERRACE...COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN
AIRPORT...HIGHLAND PARK...SAINT MARYS HILLS AND EDGEWOOD. BRIEF HEAVY
DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS.

CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO...WEATHER.GOV OR OTHER MEDIA
OUTLETS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON THESE STORMS.

&&

LAT...LON 3223 8497 3223 8493 3226 8490 3232 8501
      3243 8497 3246 8501 3252 8501 3258 8469
      3256 8467 3252 8469 3253 8466 3222 8461
      3223 8465 3221 8464 3215 8504
TIME...MOT...LOC 0421Z 261DEG 18KT 3238 8497

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 8:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Oconee, Oglethorpe	44 min
Jun 15, 8:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dawson, Fannin, Lumpkin	24 min
Jun 15, 8:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Morgan	31 min
Jun 15, 8:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee	35 min
Jun 15, 8:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow	13 min
Jun 15, 8:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Walker	24 min
Jun 15, 8:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper, Morgan, Walton	53 min
Jun 15, 8:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, Paulding	35 min
Jun 15, 8:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow	29 min
Jun 15, 8:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Forsyth	51 min
Jun 15, 9:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cherokee	28 min
Jun 15, 9:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd, Polk	17 min
Jun 15, 9:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow	26 min
Jun 15, 9:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cobb, Fulton	45 min
Jun 15, 9:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gordon	44 min
Jun 15, 9:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Barrow, Morgan, Oconee, Walton	24 min
Jun 15, 10:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Johnson, Laurens	42 min
Jun 15, 10:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper, Newton	53 min
Jun 15, 10:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Telfair, Wheeler	51 min
Jun 15, 10:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts, Coweta, Fayette, Lamar, Monroe, Pike and 1 more	28 min
Jun 15, 10:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel	36 min
Jun 15, 10:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee, Paulding, Polk	44 min
Jun 15, 10:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Montgomery, Toombs, Treutlen	57 min
Jun 15, 10:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Catoosa, Walker, Whitfield	38 min
Jun 15, 10:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	33 min
Jun 15, 10:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Paulding	31 min
Jun 15, 10:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge, Laurens, Telfair, Wheeler	43 min
Jun 15, 10:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crisp	33 min
Jun 15, 11:01 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett	2 hr
Jun 15, 11:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crawford, Dooly, Harris, Peach, Talbot, Taylor	26 min
Jun 15, 11:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cobb, Fulton, Haralson, Paulding	41 min
Jun 15, 11:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Crisp, Dooly, Macon, Marion, Muscogee and 5 more	50 min
Jun 15, 11:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Dodge, Pulaski	47 min
Jun 15, 11:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Montgomery, Toombs, Wheeler	40 min
Jun 15, 11:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, Douglas, Paulding	22 min
Jun 15, 11:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens, Treutlen	44 min
Jun 15, 11:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly, Houston, Pulaski	15 min
Jun 15, 11:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon, Schley	38 min
Jun 15, 11:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Marion, Stewart, Webster	20 min
Jun 16, 12:05 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Carroll	25 min
Jun 16, 12:11 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge, Laurens, Telfair, Wheeler	50 min
Jun 16, 12:35 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Muscogee	22 min
Jun 16, 12:50 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Meriwether, Pike, Spalding, Talbot	40 min
Jun 16, 1:05 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Marion, Schley, Stewart	40 min
Jun 16, 1:23 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb, Crawford	37 min
Jun 16, 9:12 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Meriwether, Troup	33 min
Jun 16, 9:45 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Talbot	45 min
Jun 16, 9:59 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Talbot	46 min
Jun 16, 10:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Talbot	46 min
Jun 16, 1:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Muscogee	43 min
Jun 16, 2:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Macon, Marion	41 min
Jun 16, 2:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Webster	45 min
Jun 16, 2:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Macon, Schley, Sumter	50 min
Jun 16, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crisp, Dooly, Sumter	42 min
Jun 16, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Telfair	18 min
Jun 16, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Telfair, Wilcox	43 min
Jun 16, 5:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wilcox	51 min
Jun 16, 6:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilcox	18 min
Jun 16, 6:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Telfair	27 min
Jun 16, 6:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Telfair	35 min
Jun 16, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge, Telfair	46 min
Jun 16, 7:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Montgomery	48 min
Jun 16, 7:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dodge	26 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.