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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Mar 21, 2017, 9:53 PM EDT for 13 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 52 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 21, 2017, 9:53 PM EDT (01:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 21, 2017, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Wind
- 50
Counties Baldwin County, GA, Butts County, GA, Harris County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Pike County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Troup County, GA, Upson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:54 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 377 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2348 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted.
637
WWUS82 KFFC 220153
SPSFFC
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
953 PM EDT TUE MAR 21 2017
GAZ056-058>060-066>073-078-079-220245-
Harris GA-Butts GA-Putnam GA-Monroe GA-Troup GA-Jones GA-Jasper GA-
Meriwether GA-Talbot GA-Pike GA-Lamar GA-Baldwin GA-Upson GA-
Spalding GA-
953 PM EDT TUE MAR 21 2017
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN HARRIS...BUTTS...
PUTNAM...MONROE...TROUP...JONES...JASPER...MERIWETHER...NORTHERN
TALBOT...PIKE...LAMAR...BALDWIN...UPSON AND SPALDING COUNTIES UNTIL
1045 PM EDT...
At 953 PM EDT...a line of strong winds extended from near Rock Eagle
4-H Center to Digbey to Paran...and moving south at 35 mph.
HAZARD...40 to 50 mph wind.
IMPACT...Expect minor damage to tree limbs and blowing around of
light...unsecured objects. Heavy rain may cause temporary
street flooding especially in poor drainage areas.
Some locations in the path of these storms include
Lagrange, Griffin, Milledgeville, Thomaston, Barnesville, Eatonton,
Jackson, Forsyth, Gray, Monticello, Zebulon, Hamilton, Greenville,
Manchester, Hogansville, Pine Mountain, Woodbury, Luthersville,
Flovilla and Milner.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
People outdoors should seek shelter immediately. Motorists should
slow down and be prepared for possible loss of control due to
hydroplaning.
LAT...LON 3320 8511 3322 8451 3329 8442 3333 8415
3330 8407 3335 8403 3344 8343 3324 8325
3319 8327 3318 8320 3303 8307 3289 8364
3295 8373 3294 8373 3285 8390 3285 8412
3275 8417 3273 8426 3272 8512 3313 8524
TIME...MOT...LOC 0153Z 346DEG 30KT 3340 8343 3324 8447 3320 8528
WIND...50MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 21, 8:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Walton | 30 min |
| Mar 21, 8:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Jackson, Madison | 31 min |
| Mar 21, 8:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Hall, Lumpkin, Pickens and 3 more | 38 min |
| Mar 21, 8:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Oconee, Walton | 52 min |
| Mar 21, 8:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Dawson, Floyd, Forsyth and 3 more | 46 min |
| Mar 21, 8:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Clarke, Greene, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Wilkes | 6 hr |
| Mar 21, 8:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Oglethorpe | 45 min |
| Mar 21, 8:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Carroll, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Forsyth and 5 more | 50 min |
| Mar 21, 8:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Forsyth, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson and 2 more | 46 min |
| Mar 21, 8:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Oconee, Oglethorpe | 41 min |
| Mar 21, 9:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Butts, Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Heard, Henry and 8 more | 40 min |
| Mar 21, 9:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Barrow, Clarke, Greene, Jackson, Madison, Morgan and 5 more | 38 min |
| Mar 21, 9:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Greene, Hancock, Morgan, Oglethorpe, Putnam and 4 more | 45 min |
| Mar 21, 10:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin, Glascock, Hancock, Jefferson, Jones, Washington | 36 min |
| Mar 21, 10:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson, Wilkinson | 50 min |
| Mar 21, 11:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery, Toombs | 39 min |
Nearby
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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.