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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Sep 21, 2017, 4:43 PM EDT for Montgomery County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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
- Sep 21, 2017, 4:43 PM EDT (20:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 21, 2017, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Hail
- 0.25 in
- Wind
- 40
County Montgomery County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 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 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 375 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1335 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Sep 21, 3:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 21, 3:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook...Updated National Weather Service Peachtree City GA 145 PM EDT Thu Sep 21 2017 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-221000- 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- 145 PM EDT Thu Sep 21 2017 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of North and Central Georgia. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and Tonight... The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. Isolated to widely scattered thunderstorms are possible through this evening, but most areas will remain dry. The primary hazards will be locally heavy rain, cloud to ground lightning, and brief gusty winds. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday... There is a chance of thunderstorms Friday and Saturday, mainly during the afternoon and evening. The primary hazards will be lightning, along with brief heavy rain and gusty winds. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed through tonight.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 21, 4:43 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 4:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks | 34 min |
| Sep 21, 5:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery, Wheeler | 29 min |
| Sep 21, 5:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 33 min |
| Sep 21, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair, Wheeler | 34 min |
| Sep 21, 5:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 37 min |
| Sep 21, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Telfair | 34 min |
| Sep 21, 5:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge | 33 min |
| Sep 21, 6:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dawson | 36 min |
| Sep 21, 6:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 33 min |
| Sep 21, 6:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 33 min |
| Sep 21, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Johnson | 50 min |
| Sep 21, 6:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pulaski | 33 min |
| Sep 21, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pulaski, Wilcox | 31 min |
| Sep 21, 7:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pulaski | 30 min |
| Sep 21, 7:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkinson | 24 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.