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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 15, 2014Montgomery County, Toombs County, Wheeler County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 15, 2014, 3:21 PM EDT for Montgomery County, Toombs County, Wheeler 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: Jul 15, 2014, 3:21 PM EDT (19:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 2014, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

Counties Montgomery County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Wheeler County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 633 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 925 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

698 
WWUS82 KFFC 151921
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
321 PM EDT TUE JUL 15 2014

GAZ111>113-151945-
321 PM EDT TUE JUL 15 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR FREQUENT LIGHTNING IN WHEELER...
TOOMBS AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES UNTIL 345 PM EDT...

AT 319 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER UVALDA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

LIGHTNING DETECTION SYSTEMS INDICATE NUMEROUS CLOUD-TO-GROUND
LIGHTNING STRIKES ACROSS WHEELER...TOOMBS AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES...
INCLUDING AREAS AROUND CHARLOTTEVILLE...JORDAN...GLENWOOD...ALAMO...
MOUNT VERNON...MCNATT FALLS...UVALDA...AILEY...CEDAR CROSSING...
ALSTON...ROCK SPRINGS...HIGGSTON...CENTER...TOOMBS CENTRAL AND
VIDALIA. RESIDENTS IN THIS AREA SHOULD STAY INDOORS. ELECTRICAL
APPLIANCES AND TELEPHONES SHOULD NOT BE USED UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY.

&&

LAT...LON 3228 8256 3229 8226 3200 8222 3195 8267
      3216 8279
TIME...MOT...LOC 1921Z 252DEG 33KT 3208 8256

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 14, 8:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattooga	40 min
Jul 14, 8:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gordon	31 min
Jul 14, 9:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dade	32 min
Jul 15, 11:36 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jasper, Jones, Monroe, Putnam	39 min
Jul 15, 12:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Hancock, Jones, Monroe, Putnam	52 min
Jul 15, 12:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb, Peach	26 min
Jul 15, 12:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Hancock, Warren	23 min
Jul 15, 1:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin, Glascock, Hancock, Houston, Macon, Peach and 3 more	30 min
Jul 15, 1:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Twiggs	28 min
Jul 15, 1:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Warren	27 min
Jul 15, 2:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bleckley, Houston, Pulaski	34 min
Jul 15, 2:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dooly, Macon, Sumter	51 min
Jul 15, 2:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Telfair	25 min
Jul 15, 3:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crawford	31 min
Jul 15, 3:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dooly, Schley, Sumter	93 min
Jul 15, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Toombs	32 min
Jul 15, 3:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Macon, Taylor	36 min
Jul 15, 4:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Macon	25 min
Jul 15, 6:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Muscogee	37 min
Jul 15, 6:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taliaferro	30 min
Jul 15, 6:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Muscogee	27 min
Jul 15, 7:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris	43 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Georgia, 2014 Every special weather statement in 2014

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.