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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2017, 8:23 PM EDT for Talbot County, Georgia. It was in force for 67 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 4, 2017, 8:23 PM EDT (00:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2017, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Talbot County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 845 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1238 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
314
WWUS82 KFFC 050023
SPSFFC
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
823 PM EDT FRI AUG 4 2017
GAZ069-078>080-050130-
Harris GA-Taylor GA-Upson GA-Talbot GA-
823 PM EDT FRI AUG 4 2017
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN HARRIS...
NORTHWESTERN TAYLOR...WESTERN UPSON AND TALBOT COUNTIES UNTIL 930 PM
EDT...
At 823 PM EDT...a strong thunderstorm was over Olive Branch, or near
Talbotton...moving east at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Heavy rain.
IMPACT...Heavy rain may cause temporary street flooding especially
in poor drainage areas.
Some locations in the path of this storm include
Talbotton, Woodland, Junction City, Geneva, Sunset Village,
Baldwinville, Baughville, Olive Branch, Po Biddy Crossroads, Sprewell
Bluff State Park, Pleasant Hill, Howard, Sunnyside, Prattsburg, Big
Lazer Creek Wma and Wesley Church.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Motorists should slow down and be prepared for possible loss of
control due to hydroplaning.
LAT...LON 3292 8438 3255 8430 3255 8445 3256 8445
3256 8449 3255 8449 3254 8451 3255 8454
3254 8454 3254 8468 3256 8467 3256 8469
3258 8469 3259 8470 3275 8472
TIME...MOT...LOC 0023Z 253DEG 16KT 3269 8461
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 8:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb | 53 min |
| Aug 4, 8:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker, Whitfield | 48 min |
| Aug 4, 8:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 38 min |
| Aug 4, 8:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bibb | 6 hr |
| Aug 4, 8:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jackson | 48 min |
| Aug 4, 8:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Wilkinson | 52 min |
| Aug 4, 8:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Towns, Union | 46 min |
| Aug 4, 9:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Washington | 39 min |
| Aug 4, 9:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Barrow, Jackson | 48 min |
| Aug 4, 9:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Whitfield | 48 min |
| Aug 5, 12:46 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 44 min |
| Aug 5, 7:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hancock | 42 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.