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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 20, 2015Twiggs County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jun 20, 2015, 2:48 PM EDT for Twiggs County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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 20, 2015, 2:48 PM EDT (18:48 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 2015, 3:15 PM EDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Atlanta, GA

County Twiggs County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:49 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 134 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2015-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 987 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2015-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 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
987 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
705 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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The text

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

792 
WWUS82 KFFC 201848
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
248 PM EDT SAT JUN 20 2015
 
GAZ083-084-096-201915-
TWIGGS GA-BLECKLEY GA-WILKINSON GA-
248 PM EDT SAT JUN 20 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR FREQUENT LIGHTNING IN TWIGGS...
BLECKLEY AND WILKINSON COUNTIES UNTIL 315 PM EDT...

AT 248 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR JEFFERSONVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

LIGHTNING DETECTION SYSTEMS INDICATE NUMEROUS CLOUD-TO-GROUND
LIGHTNING STRIKES ACROSS TWIGGS...BLECKLEY AND WILKINSON COUNTIES...
INCLUDING AREAS AROUND
JEFFERSONVILLE...DANVILLE...ALLENTOWN...MARION...DISTRICT PATH...
TARVERSVILLE...RIPLEY...CARY AND BULLARD.

RESIDENTS IN THIS AREA SHOULD STAY INDOORS.  ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES
AND TELEPHONES SHOULD NOT BE USED UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY.

LAT...LON 3253 8349 3271 8351 3278 8323 3248 8323
TIME...MOT...LOC 1848Z 265DEG 21KT 3263 8341 

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 5:33 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCDade27 min
Jun 20, 1:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCClayton, DeKalb26 min
Jun 20, 1:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCFayette33 min
Jun 20, 2:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCNewton, Rockdale26 min
Jun 20, 2:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCobb, Paulding29 min
Jun 20, 2:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCFayette, Henry, Spalding33 min
Jun 20, 2:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb38 min
Jun 20, 3:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCClarke, Oconee, Walton29 min
Jun 20, 3:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCGwinnett34 min
Jun 20, 3:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCNewton32 min
Jun 20, 3:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCClarke, Oglethorpe, Wilkes23 min
Jun 20, 3:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCGwinnett29 min
Jun 20, 3:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDeKalb, Gwinnett, Rockdale, Walton29 min
Jun 20, 4:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCOglethorpe, Wilkes29 min
Jun 20, 4:24 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCClayton36 min
Jun 20, 4:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCClayton, Fayette33 min
Jun 20, 4:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCRockdale32 min
Jun 20, 5:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCCoweta, Fayette33 min
Jun 20, 6:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementFFCMeriwether, Troup32 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.