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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

February 24, 2016Dodge County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Feb 24, 2016, 2:50 AM EST for Dodge County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 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: Feb 24, 2016, 2:50 AM EST (07:50 UTC)
Expired: Feb 24, 2016, 3:30 AM EST
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Dodge County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 24 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 547 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 316 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 376 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Atlanta, GA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Feb 24, 12:49 AM EST, 2 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 24, 12:49 AM EST, 2 hours 1 minute before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 23, 10:10 PM EST, 4 hours 40 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 24, 2:47 AM EST, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
247 AM EST WED FEB 24 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0140 AM     TSTM WND DMG     2 WSW CORDELE           31.95N  83.81W
02/24/2016                   CRISP              GA   EMERGENCY MNGR

            METAL ROOF BLOWN OFF A POLE BARN ON HIGHWAY 33 BETWEEN
            COFER AND LANDFILL ROADS.

&&

EVENT NUMBER FFC1600195

DEESE

Special weather statement, Feb 24, 2:50 AM EST, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
250 AM EST WED FEB 24 2016

GAZ108>110-240830-
DODGE GA-TELFAIR GA-WILCOX GA-
250 AM EST WED FEB 24 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN DODGE...WESTERN
TELFAIR AND NORTHEASTERN WILCOX COUNTIES UNTIL 330 AM EST...

AT 249 AM EST...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR ABBEVILLE...MOVING
EAST AT 20 MPH.

  HAZARD...40 TO 50 MPH WIND AND HEAVY RAIN.

  IMPACT...PEOPLE OUTDOORS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. EXPECT
           MINOR DAMAGE TO TREE LIMBS AND BLOWING AROUND OF
           LIGHT...UNSECURED OBJECTS. LOCALIZED FLOODING IN LOW
           LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS IS ALSO LIKELY. MOTORISTS
           SHOULD SLOW DOWN AND BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE LOSS OF
           CONTROL DUE TO HYDROPLANING. WHEN WATER COVERS THE
           ROAD...REMEMBER TO TURN AROUND DON'T DROWN.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE
EASTMAN...ABBEVILLE...MILAN...RHINE...CHAUNCEY...UNION...
GODWINSVILLE...FIVE POINTS AND BROWNING.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER
RADIO...WEATHER.GOV OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR
POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON THESE STORMS.

LAT...LON 3211 8334 3212 8331 3214 8331 3215 8332
      3218 8329 3219 8322 3220 8302 3219 8301
      3193 8303 3191 8335
TIME...MOT...LOC 0749Z 269DEG 16KT 3206 8328

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 23, 7:59 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Henry	46 min
Feb 23, 10:12 PM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Troup	28 hr
Feb 24, 12:56 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Coweta, Fayette, Spalding	25 hr
Feb 24, 1:27 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crisp	33 min
Feb 24, 1:46 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pulaski, Wilcox	29 min
Feb 24, 2:14 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wilcox	31 min
Feb 24, 3:20 AM EST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Dodge, Wilcox	25 min
Feb 24, 3:25 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin, Glascock, Greene, Hancock, Jefferson, Johnson and 7 more	50 min
Feb 24, 4:39 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Banks, Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Dade and 15 more	96 min
Feb 24, 4:50 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Telfair	40 min
Feb 24, 5:16 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Montgomery, Wheeler	44 min
Feb 24, 5:39 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Treutlen	36 min
Feb 24, 6:17 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Chattooga	30 hr
Feb 24, 6:21 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Floyd	59 hr
Feb 24, 6:21 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Fayette	24 hr
Feb 24, 6:41 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Gordon, Murray, Whitfield	46 hr
Feb 24, 6:56 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gwinnett	34 min
Feb 24, 7:06 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bartow, Gordon, Murray, Polk	39 min
Feb 24, 7:46 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Pickens	29 min
Feb 24, 8:33 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Banks, Hall	27 min
Feb 24, 8:57 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Barrow, Jackson	33 min
Feb 24, 10:46 AM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Floyd	23 hr
Feb 24, 1:17 PM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Gordon	50 hr
Feb 24, 2:39 PM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Floyd	4 days
Feb 24, 2:39 PM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Floyd	5 days
Feb 24, 6:07 PM EST	River Flood Warning	FFC	Fayette, Spalding	24 hr

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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.