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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jun 25, 2016, 3:13 PM EDT for Sumter County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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 25, 2016, 3:13 PM EDT (19:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2016, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Sumter County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 706 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1438 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
057
WWUS82 KFFC 251913
SPSFFC
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
313 PM EDT SAT JUN 25 2016
GAZ104-251945-
SUMTER GA-
313 PM EDT SAT JUN 25 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SUMTER COUNTY UNTIL 345 PM EDT...
AT 313 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR ANDERSONVILLE...OR 8
MILES NORTHEAST OF AMERICUS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.
HAZARD...UP TO 40 MPH WIND...PEA SIZED HAIL AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING.
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.
SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE
AMERICUS...LESLIE...LAMAR...NEW ERA...METHVINS...HUNTINGTON AND
PENNINGTON.
LAT...LON 3199 8424 3214 8423 3219 8410 3218 8405
3217 8403 3215 8403 3213 8401 3212 8401
3209 8398 3207 8399 3206 8398 3205 8398
3205 8397 3202 8395 3194 8414
TIME...MOT...LOC 1913Z 332DEG 6KT 3212 8410
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 3:34 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Crawford, Crisp and 29 more | 18 hr |
| Jun 25, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 45 min |
| Jun 25, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 51 min |
| Jun 25, 3:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Schley | 26 min |
| Jun 25, 4:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion, Schley | 49 min |
| Jun 25, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter, Webster | 15 min |
| Jun 25, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter, Webster | 21 min |
| Jun 25, 4:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Webster | 28 min |
| Jun 25, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Stewart, Webster | 51 min |
| Jun 25, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion, Stewart | 34 min |
| Jun 25, 5:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Webster | 30 min |
| Jun 25, 5:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Talbot | 24 min |
| Jun 25, 6:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilcox | 27 min |
| Jun 25, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp, Wilcox | 23 min |
| Jun 25, 6:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Marion | 33 min |
| Jun 25, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Marion, Muscogee, Talbot | 47 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.