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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Oct 3, 2016, 1:33 PM EDT for Telfair County, Georgia. It was in force for 57 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
- Oct 3, 2016, 1:33 PM EDT (17:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 3, 2016, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Telfair County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 1511 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 665 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 Oct 3, 7:20 AM EDT, 6 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 3, 7:20 AM EDT, 6 hours 13 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 430 AM EDT MON OCT 3 2016 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-041000- 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- 430 AM EDT MON OCT 3 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...THE TRACK OF HURRICANE MATTHEW WILL BE CLOSELY MONITORED FOR ANY POTENTIAL IMPACTS LATE IN THE WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 3, 12:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
133 PM EDT MON OCT 3 2016
GAZ110-111-031830-
WHEELER GA-TELFAIR GA-
133 PM EDT MON OCT 3 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN WHEELER AND SOUTHEASTERN
TELFAIR COUNTIES UNTIL 230 PM EDT...
AT 131 PM EDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM AROUND
TOWNS TO NEAR THE HORSE CREEK WMA. THESE STORMS WERE NEARLY
STATIONARY.
HAZARD...HEAVY RAIN.
IMPACT...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.
SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE
LUMBER CITY...SCOTLAND...JACKSONVILLE...TOWNS...WORKMORE...JORDAN...
THE HORSE CREEK WMA AND SPRING HILL.
LAT...LON 3178 8292 3180 8298 3189 8301 3208 8281
3206 8264 3194 8262 3192 8265 3192 8268
3190 8269 3190 8270 3186 8276 3185 8279
3184 8278 3181 8282 3182 8284 3178 8286
3178 8289 3179 8290
TIME...MOT...LOC 1731Z 014DEG 3KT 3202 8274 3186 8289The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 12:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 62 min |
| Oct 3, 1:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Telfair | 45 min |
| Oct 3, 2:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wheeler | 38 min |
| Oct 3, 2:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery | 40 min |
| Oct 3, 2:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Telfair | 49 min |
| Oct 3, 4:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Toombs | 50 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Georgia, 2016Every 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.