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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 23, 2018Laurens County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Apr 23, 2018, 1:41 PM EDT for Laurens County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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: Apr 23, 2018, 1:41 PM EDT (17:41 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 2018, 2:15 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 40

County Laurens County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 154 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 581 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 210 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

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 Apr 23, 1:27 PM EDT, 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 23, 1:27 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 23, 9:05 AM EDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 23, 8:14 AM EDT, 5 hours 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 23, 8:46 AM EDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 23, 9:25 AM EDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 23, 11:33 AM EDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 23, 1:41 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 23, 1:12 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Dade	47 hr
Apr 23, 3:04 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Walker	13 hr
Apr 23, 4:27 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Forsyth, Fulton	60 hr
Apr 23, 6:10 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Forsyth	18 hr
Apr 23, 8:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Laurens, Treutlen	31 min
Apr 23, 8:46 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Johnson, Treutlen	29 min
Apr 23, 9:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel, Glascock, Jefferson, Johnson, Treutlen	65 min
Apr 23, 2:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkinson	24 min
Apr 23, 2:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts	37 min
Apr 23, 2:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Newton	28 min
Apr 23, 3:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Walton	31 min
Apr 23, 3:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Rockdale	31 min
Apr 23, 3:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Laurens	25 min
Apr 23, 3:55 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Henry, Rockdale	21 min
Apr 23, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Rockdale	18 min
Apr 23, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	28 min
Apr 23, 4:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Morgan	26 min
Apr 23, 4:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Johnson	37 min
Apr 23, 4:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Morgan	43 min
Apr 23, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens	30 min
Apr 23, 4:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Telfair	24 min
Apr 23, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge, Telfair, Wilcox	20 min
Apr 23, 5:12 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Greene	33 min
Apr 23, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Johnson, Treutlen	30 min
Apr 23, 5:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Telfair	23 min
Apr 23, 5:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb	27 min
Apr 23, 5:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Greene	35 min
Apr 23, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel	30 min
Apr 23, 5:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Morgan	25 min
Apr 23, 5:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jones	35 min
Apr 23, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel	45 min
Apr 23, 6:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Putnam	40 min
Apr 23, 6:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wheeler	36 min
Apr 23, 6:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Montgomery, Toombs, Wheeler	24 min
Apr 23, 6:59 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Greene, Jasper, Morgan, Putnam	6 hr
Apr 23, 7:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Putnam	32 min
Apr 23, 7:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel, Montgomery, Toombs	45 min
Apr 23, 7:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Montgomery, Toombs	28 min
Apr 23, 7:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Greene	37 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.