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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 13, 2016Taylor County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jun 13, 2016, 5:27 PM EDT for Taylor County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 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 13, 2016, 5:27 PM EDT (21:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2016, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Taylor County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 234 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: 1351 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1191 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 13, 2:51 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 2:51 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 13, 11:10 AM EDT, 6 hours 17 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 13, 5:27 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
527 PM EDT MON JUN 13 2016

GAZ080-132215-
TAYLOR GA-
527 PM EDT MON JUN 13 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN TAYLOR COUNTY UNTIL
615 PM EDT...

AT 526 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR BUTLER. THIS STORM WAS
NEARLY STATIONARY.

  HAZARD...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...TURN AROUND...DO NOT DROWN.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE
BUTLER...RUPERT...MAUK...CHARING AND HOWARD.

LAT...LON 3246 8441 3248 8441 3248 8442 3250 8443
      3256 8442 3256 8441 3261 8441 3262 8439
      3264 8437 3253 8411 3240 8424 3240 8425
      3239 8426
TIME...MOT...LOC 2126Z 206DEG 0KT 3250 8431

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 6:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Schley	41 min
Jun 13, 6:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris	39 min
Jun 13, 6:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Catoosa	39 min
Jun 13, 7:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Walker	47 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Georgia, 2016 Every special weather statement in 2016

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.