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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 5, 2016Putnam County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 5, 2016, 3:25 PM EDT for Putnam 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: Jul 5, 2016, 3:25 PM EDT (19:25 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2016, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Putnam County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:26 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 112 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: 1207 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 701 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

769 
WWUS82 KFFC 051925
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
325 PM EDT TUE JUL 5 2016
 
GAZ049-050-060-072-073-052000-
MORGAN GA-BALDWIN GA-JONES GA-GREENE GA-PUTNAM GA-
325 PM EDT TUE JUL 5 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MORGAN...
NORTHWESTERN BALDWIN...NORTHEASTERN JONES...SOUTHWESTERN GREENE AND
PUTNAM COUNTIES UNTIL 400 PM EDT...

AT 323 PM EDT...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM NORTH LAKE
OCONEE THROUGH EATONTON TO GRAY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 30 MPH.

  HAZARD...WINDS UP TO 40 MPH...FREQUENT 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
MILLEDGEVILLE...EATONTON...GRAY...BUCKHEAD...PHOENIX...MERIWETHER...SWORDS...
WARFIELD...HARMONY...STANFORDVILLE...RESSEAUS CROSSROADS...ROCK EAGLE 4-H
CENTER...HADDOCK...GODFREY...BLOUNTSVILLE...PARKS MILL...WILLARD...CENTRAL
GEORGIA EXPERIMENT STATION...CAREY AND ETHRIDGE.

LAT...LON 3326 8324 3326 8325 3320 8327 3319 8327
      3318 8324 3312 8324 3297 8355 3346 8354
      3364 8323
TIME...MOT...LOC 1923Z 236DEG 26KT 3337 8344 

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 3:21 AM EDT	Heat Advisory	FFC	Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Crawford, Crisp, Dodge and 28 more	15 hr
Jul 5, 11:33 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cherokee, Cobb, Forsyth, Hall	27 min
Jul 5, 12:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Carroll, Haralson, Polk	33 min
Jul 5, 1:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Douglas, Fulton	29 min
Jul 5, 2:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Muscogee	28 min
Jul 5, 2:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton	27 min
Jul 5, 2:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gwinnett	28 min
Jul 5, 2:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Lamar, Spalding	20 min
Jul 5, 2:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Walton	27 min
Jul 5, 2:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts, Monroe	34 min
Jul 5, 3:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jasper	36 min
Jul 5, 3:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin, Greene	20 min
Jul 5, 3:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb	31 min
Jul 5, 4:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Hancock, Taliaferro	25 min
Jul 5, 4:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin, Wilkinson	37 min
Jul 5, 4:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Glascock, Jefferson	32 min
Jul 5, 4:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Johnson	26 min
Jul 5, 5:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel	28 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.