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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Mar 1, 2017, 8:49 PM EST for Talbot County, Upson County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 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
- Mar 1, 2017, 8:49 PM EST (01:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2017, 9:15 PM EST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Hail
- 0.25 in
- Wind
- 50
Counties Talbot County, GA, Upson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 432 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1410 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted.
780
WWUS82 KFFC 020149
SPSFFC
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
849 PM EST WED MAR 1 2017
GAZ069-071-079>081-020215-
Monroe GA-Taylor GA-Upson GA-Crawford GA-Talbot GA-
849 PM EST WED MAR 1 2017
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN MONROE...NORTHERN
TAYLOR...UPSON...NORTHWESTERN CRAWFORD AND NORTHERN TALBOT COUNTIES
UNTIL 915 PM EST...
At 849 PM EST...a strong thunderstorm was over Woodland, or 7 miles
north of Talbotton...moving east at 60 mph.
HAZARD...40 to 50 mph wind...pea sized hail and frequent cloud to
ground lightning.
IMPACT...Expect minor damage to tree limbs and blowing around of
light...unsecured objects.
Some locations in the path of this storm include
Thomaston, Roberta, Manchester, Woodland, Yatesville, Culloden,
Sunset Village, Lincoln Park, Redbone Crossroads, Musella, Sprewell
Bluff State Park, Pleasant Hill, Logtown, Salem, Prattsburg, Big
Lazer Creek Wma and Carsonville.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
People outdoors should seek shelter immediately. If you can hear
thunder...you are close enough to be struck by lightning.
LAT...LON 3285 8457 3288 8451 3294 8412 3293 8412
3293 8406 3273 8398 3269 8460 3285 8463
TIME...MOT...LOC 0149Z 260DEG 53KT 3279 8453
HAIL...0.25IN
WIND...50MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 7:01 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Barrow, Gwinnett | 29 min |
| Mar 1, 7:02 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks | 13 min |
| Mar 1, 7:15 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb | 30 min |
| Mar 1, 7:22 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jackson, Madison | 23 min |
| Mar 1, 7:26 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 34 min |
| Mar 1, 7:28 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 32 min |
| Mar 1, 7:31 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb | 29 min |
| Mar 1, 7:35 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Barrow, Madison | 25 min |
| Mar 1, 7:40 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gwinnett | 35 min |
| Mar 1, 7:53 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether | 37 min |
| Mar 1, 8:01 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Newton, Rockdale | 29 min |
| Mar 1, 8:02 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clarke, Oconee, Oglethorpe | 28 min |
| Mar 1, 8:16 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lamar, Pike, Spalding, Upson | 29 min |
| Mar 1, 8:32 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene, Morgan | 28 min |
| Mar 1, 8:43 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Butts, Jasper, Lamar, Monroe | 32 min |
| Mar 1, 8:46 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Morgan, Newton | 29 min |
| Mar 1, 8:52 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkes | 23 min |
| Mar 1, 9:12 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb, Jones, Putnam | 33 min |
| Mar 1, 9:15 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Crawford, Macon, Marion, Peach, Schley and 1 more | 45 min |
| Mar 1, 9:17 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taliaferro, Wilkes | 43 min |
| Mar 1, 9:48 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Glascock, Hancock, Twiggs, Warren and 2 more | 27 min |
| Mar 1, 10:01 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Houston, Macon, Marion, Peach, Schley, Stewart and 1 more | 44 min |
| Mar 1, 10:15 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bleckley, Glascock, Jefferson, Twiggs, Washington, Wilkinson | 45 min |
| Mar 1, 10:54 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bleckley, Jefferson, Johnson, Laurens | 51 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.