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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Apr 28, 2016, 3:25 PM EDT for Johnson County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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
- Apr 28, 2016, 3:25 PM EDT (19:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2016, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Johnson County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 199 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 773 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 551 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted.
780
WWUS82 KFFC 281925
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
325 PM EDT THU APR 28 2016
GAZ085-086-097-282000-
JOHNSON GA-LAURENS GA-EMANUEL GA-
325 PM EDT THU APR 28 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN JOHNSON...
NORTHEASTERN LAURENS AND WESTERN EMANUEL COUNTIES UNTIL 400 PM EDT...
AT 325 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 7 MILES EAST OF EAST
DUBLIN...OR 9 MILES EAST OF DUBLIN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
HAZARD...UP TO 40 MPH WIND...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING
AND HEAVY RAIN.
IMPACT...PEOPLE OUTDOORS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. EXPECT
MINOR DAMAGE TO TREE LIMBS AND BLOWING AROUND OF
LIGHT...UNSECURED OBJECTS. ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES SHOULD
NOT BE USED UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY. 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
ADRIAN...MEEKS AND SCOTT.
LAT...LON 3250 8252 3250 8255 3251 8256 3250 8262
3251 8265 3250 8265 3250 8277 3260 8279
3271 8255
TIME...MOT...LOC 1925Z 259DEG 24KT 3257 8275
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 8:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Heard | 35 min |
| Apr 27, 8:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Muscogee | 26 min |
| Apr 27, 8:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee | 49 min |
| Apr 27, 8:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Heard | 32 min |
| Apr 27, 8:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether | 29 min |
| Apr 27, 9:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 32 min |
| Apr 27, 9:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion, Schley, Taylor | 38 min |
| Apr 28, 2:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 31 min |
| Apr 28, 2:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 31 min |
| Apr 28, 3:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Treutlen | 25 min |
| Apr 28, 3:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 36 min |
| Apr 28, 7:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Upson | 30 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.