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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 25, 2016Marion County, Schley County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jun 25, 2016, 4:11 PM EDT for Marion County, Schley County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 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, 4:11 PM EDT (20:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2016, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

Counties Marion County, GA, Schley County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 126 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: 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

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The text

As transmitted.

775 
WWUS82 KFFC 252011
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
411 PM EDT SAT JUN 25 2016
 
GAZ091-092-103-104-252100-
WEBSTER GA-MARION GA-SUMTER GA-SCHLEY GA-
411 PM EDT SAT JUN 25 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN WEBSTER...SOUTHERN
MARION...NORTHWESTERN SUMTER AND SCHLEY COUNTIES UNTIL 500 PM EDT...

AT 411 PM EDT...SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE ORIENTED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM NEAR BUENA VISTA TO NEAR ELLAVILLE TO 6 MILES WEST OF
ANDERSONVILLE. THESE STORMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY.

  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 THESE STORMS INCLUDE BUENA
VISTA...ELLAVILLE...ANDERSONVILLE...PUTNAM...BRANTLEY...DOYLE...
DRANEVILLE...LA CROSSE...CHURCH
HILL...FRIENDSHIP...BUMPHEAD...TAZEWELL AND WALLS CROSSING.

LAT...LON 3236 8460 3243 8453 3244 8441 3231 8434
      3225 8422 3223 8422 3223 8417 3222 8415
      3219 8413 3218 8413 3216 8411 3213 8422
      3211 8440 3211 8459
TIME...MOT...LOC 2011Z 014DEG 3KT 3232 8448 3225 8436 3219 8425 

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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, 3:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Sumter	32 min
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, 4:15 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.