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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 19, 2018Dodge County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jun 19, 2018, 3:14 PM EDT for Dodge County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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: Jun 19, 2018, 3:14 PM EDT (19:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2018, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 40

County Dodge County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:17 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 445 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1131 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 33 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 Jun 19, 1:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 1:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 4:31 AM EDT, 10 hours 43 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 3:14 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
314 PM EDT TUE JUN 19 2018

GAZ096-109-191945-
Bleckley GA-Dodge GA-
314 PM EDT TUE JUN 19 2018

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR BLECKLEY AND NORTHWESTERN DODGE
COUNTIES UNTIL 345 PM EDT...

At 313 PM EDT...a strong thunderstorm was near Yonkers, or 9 miles
north of Eastman...moving south at 5 mph.

  HAZARD...Up to 40 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
Eastman, Chester, Dubois, Gresston, Plainfield, Empire, Yonkers,
Roddy and Rowland.

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 3228 8334 3245 8329 3245 8315 3223 8304
      3218 8318
TIME...MOT...LOC 1913Z 353DEG 5KT 3233 8318

HAIL...0.25IN
WIND...40MPH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 8:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Schley, Sumter	29 min
Jun 18, 9:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Marion	26 min
Jun 19, 3:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Dodge, Laurens	29 min
Jun 19, 4:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gwinnett	33 min
Jun 19, 4:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Pulaski	34 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.