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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 10, 2014Jones County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jun 10, 2014, 8:21 PM EDT for Jones 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: Jun 10, 2014, 8:21 PM EDT (00:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2014, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Jones County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 106 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: 81 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -181 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 979 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.4

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The text

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

093 
WWUS82 KFFC 110021
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
821 PM EDT TUE JUN 10 2014

GAZ072-082-110045-
821 PM EDT TUE JUN 10 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR 40 MPH WINDS AND FREQUENT 
LIGHTNING IN JONES AND BIBB COUNTIES UNTIL 845 PM EDT...

AT 819 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
STRONG THUNDERSTORM CENTERED OVER DOWNTOWN MACON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 
MPH.

LIGHTNING DETECTION SYSTEMS INDICATE FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND
LIGHTNING STRIKES ACROSS JONES AND BIBB COUNTIES...INCLUDING AREAS
AROUND FRANKLINTON...MACON...CROSS KEYS...GRISWOLDVILLE...POSTELL...
MOUNTAIN SPRINGS...GREENBERRY CROSSROADS...CLINTON AND JAMES. 
RESIDENTS IN THIS AREA SHOULD STAY INDOORS. 

&&

LAT...LON 3280 8368 3301 8360 3294 8339 3288 8345
      3285 8351 3283 8350 3274 8358 3274 8359
TIME...MOT...LOC 0021Z 208DEG 22KT 3280 8362

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 8:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Pulaski	37 min
Jun 10, 8:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crisp	30 min
Jun 10, 8:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Montgomery, Toombs	40 min
Jun 10, 9:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bleckley	26 min
Jun 10, 9:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Montgomery, Telfair, Treutlen, Wheeler	33 min
Jun 10, 9:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Laurens	32 min
Jun 10, 10:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Johnson	23 min
Jun 10, 10:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jefferson	26 min
Jun 10, 11:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jefferson	35 min
Jun 11, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel	31 min
Jun 11, 5:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Toombs	49 min
Jun 11, 5:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel	23 min
Jun 11, 5:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jefferson	23 min
Jun 11, 6:10 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Emanuel	6 hr
Jun 11, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Montgomery, Wheeler	51 min
Jun 11, 7:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Glascock, Hancock, Warren, Washington	40 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.