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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 23, 2016Montgomery County, Wheeler County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 23, 2016, 1:59 PM EDT for Montgomery County, Wheeler County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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, 1:59 PM EDT (17:59 UTC)
Expired: Aug 23, 2016, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

Counties Montgomery County, GA, Wheeler County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:00 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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 212 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: 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

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

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, 1:41 PM EDT, 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 1:41 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 23, 10:32 AM EDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before

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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 23, 1:30 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 23, 1:33 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 23, 1:44 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 23, 1:59 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
159 PM EDT TUE AUG 23 2016

GAZ097-098-109>113-231830-
WHEELER GA-DODGE GA-MONTGOMERY GA-LAURENS GA-TOOMBS GA-TREUTLEN GA-
TELFAIR GA-
159 PM EDT TUE AUG 23 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WHEELER...EASTERN DODGE...
MONTGOMERY...SOUTHEASTERN LAURENS...NORTHWESTERN TOOMBS...
SOUTHWESTERN TREUTLEN AND NORTHERN TELFAIR COUNTIES UNTIL 230 PM
EDT...

AT 158 PM EDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM NEAR KIBBEE TO NEAR ALAMO TO NEAR JAY BIRD SPRINGS...
AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 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. 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.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE
MCRAE...LYONS...SOPERTON...ALAMO...MOUNT
VERNON...VIDALIA...HELENA...
GLENWOOD...AILEY...SCOTLAND...HIGGSTON...TARRYTOWN...LITTLE OCMULGEE
STATE PARK...BARNHILL...LOTHAIR...ACHORD...CEDAR
GROVE...KIBBEE...LANDSBURG AND JAY BIRD SPRINGS.

LAT...LON 3222 8231 3207 8262 3204 8295 3223 8318
      3229 8295 3241 8260
TIME...MOT...LOC 1758Z 302DEG 23KT 3232 8250 3219 8280 3219 8301

The office that day

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, 1:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dodge	27 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, 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

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Georgia, 2016 Every special weather statement in 2016

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.