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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 23, 2016, 1:33 PM EDT for Dodge County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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
- Aug 23, 2016, 1:33 PM EDT (17:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2016, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Dodge County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:31 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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1558 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Aug 23, 10:31 AM EDT, 3 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 10:31 AM EDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1032 AM EDT TUE AUG 23 2016 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-241200- BALDWIN-BANKS-BARROW-BARTOW-BIBB-BLECKLEY-BUTTS-CARROLL-CATOOSA- CHATTAHOOCHEE-CHATTOOGA-CHEROKEE-CLARKE-CLAYTON-COBB-COWETA- CRAWFORD-CRISP-DADE-DAWSON-DEKALB-DODGE-DOOLY-DOUGLAS-EMANUEL- FANNIN-FAYETTE-FLOYD-FORSYTH-GILMER-GLASCOCK-GORDON-GREENE- GWINNETT-HALL-HANCOCK-HARALSON-HARRIS-HEARD-HENRY-HOUSTON-JACKSON- JASPER-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-JONES-LAMAR-LAURENS-LUMPKIN-MACON- MADISON-MARION-MERIWETHER-MONROE-MONTGOMERY-MORGAN-MURRAY- MUSCOGEE-NEWTON-NORTH FULTON-OCONEE-OGLETHORPE-PAULDING-PEACH- PICKENS-PIKE-POLK-PULASKI-PUTNAM-ROCKDALE-SCHLEY-SOUTH FULTON- SPALDING-STEWART-SUMTER-TALBOT-TALIAFERRO-TAYLOR-TELFAIR-TOOMBS- TOWNS-TREUTLEN-TROUP-TWIGGS-UNION-UPSON-WALKER-WALTON-WARREN- WASHINGTON-WEBSTER-WHEELER-WHITE-WHITFIELD-WILCOX-WILKES- WILKINSON- 1032 AM EDT TUE AUG 23 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING MAINLY OVER CENTRAL GEORGIA. A FEW STORMS WILL BE STRONG WITH GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS EACH AFTERNOON...EXCEPT THURSDAY. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT.
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Special weather statement, Aug 23, 1:30 PM EDT, 3 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 1:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Treutlen | 30 min |
| Aug 23, 1:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge | 31 min |
| Aug 23, 1:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Pulaski, Wilcox | 28 min |
| Aug 23, 1:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery, Wheeler | 31 min |
| Aug 23, 2:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilcox | 37 min |
| Aug 23, 2:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wheeler | 31 min |
| Aug 23, 3:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 30 min |
| Aug 23, 3:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 30 min |
| Aug 23, 5:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb | 36 min |
| Aug 23, 6:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Sumter | 23 min |
| Aug 23, 7:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Stewart | 37 min |
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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.