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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 31, 2016Banks County, Jackson County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 31, 2016, 7:21 PM EDT for Banks County, Jackson County, Georgia. It was in force for 39 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 31, 2016, 7:21 PM EDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 31, 2016, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

Counties Banks County, GA, Jackson County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 134 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: 303 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -109 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1101 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

696 
WWUS82 KFFC 312321
SPSFFC

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
721 PM EDT SUN JUL 31 2016
 
GAZ024-025-010000-
BANKS GA-JACKSON GA-
721 PM EDT SUN JUL 31 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN BANKS AND JACKSON
COUNTIES UNTIL 800 PM EDT...

AT 721 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER MAYSVILLE...OR NEAR
HOMER...MOVING EAST AT 10 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. LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURE'S 
           LEADING KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU 
           ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. ELECTRICAL 
           APPLIANCES SHOULD NOT BE USED UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY. 
           MOTORISTS SHOULD SLOW DOWN AND BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE 
           LOSS OF CONTROL DUE TO HYDROPLANING. ALSO...THE HEAVY 
           RAIN MAY CAUSE TEMPORARY STREET FLOODING OR ROAD PONDING 
           IN SLOW DRAINAGE AREAS. WHEN WATER COVERS THE 
           ROAD...REMEMBER TO TURN AROUND DON'T DROWN. 

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE
JEFFERSON...COMMERCE...HOMER...BRASELTON...MAYSVILLE...NICHOLSON...
PENDERGRASS...GILLSVILLE...TALMO...APPLE VALLEY...PEACH STATE SPEEDWAY...
BANKS CROSSING AND THOMPSONS MILL.

LAT...LON 3432 8339 3427 8334 3421 8336 3420 8340
      3416 8336 3412 8336 3410 8337 3411 8382
      3413 8381 3430 8362 3432 8365 3436 8365
      3439 8338
TIME...MOT...LOC 2321Z 270DEG 10KT 3428 8358 

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 31, 1:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taylor	31 min
Jul 31, 1:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon, Taylor	36 min
Jul 31, 1:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Schley	33 min
Jul 31, 1:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crawford, Peach	30 min
Jul 31, 1:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Sumter	25 min
Jul 31, 2:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon, Peach	38 min
Jul 31, 2:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb, Crawford	40 min
Jul 31, 2:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dooly	39 min
Jul 31, 2:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Jones, Twiggs	52 min
Jul 31, 3:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Meriwether, Pike	45 min
Jul 31, 3:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Marion, Muscogee	43 min
Jul 31, 3:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Twiggs	40 min
Jul 31, 3:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crisp, Dooly, Pulaski, Wilcox	41 min
Jul 31, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Talbot	42 min
Jul 31, 3:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Pulaski, Wilcox	51 min
Jul 31, 4:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Washington	48 min
Jul 31, 4:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Meriwether, Pike	30 min
Jul 31, 4:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Douglas	39 min
Jul 31, 4:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Stewart	50 min
Jul 31, 4:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Johnson	46 min
Jul 31, 5:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Montgomery, Wheeler	28 min
Jul 31, 5:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clayton	44 min
Jul 31, 5:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Haralson	53 min
Jul 31, 5:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cobb	42 min
Jul 31, 5:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Montgomery, Wheeler	51 min
Jul 31, 5:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Rockdale, Walton	40 min
Jul 31, 7:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clarke, Madison, Oglethorpe	40 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.