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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 7, 20186 counties in Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 7, 2018, 7:05 PM EDT for 6 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 25 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: Jul 7, 2018, 7:05 PM EDT (23:05 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 2018, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 50

Counties Bleckley County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 257 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: 1238 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 808 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 8:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens, Treutlen	33 min
Jul 6, 8:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Coweta, Heard, Troup	44 min
Jul 6, 9:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dodge, Laurens, Treutlen, Wilcox	25 min
Jul 6, 9:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dodge, Laurens, Montgomery, Telfair, Treutlen, Wheeler and 1 more	25 min
Jul 6, 10:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crisp, Dodge, Montgomery, Telfair, Toombs, Wheeler and 1 more	38 min
Jul 6, 10:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Twiggs	35 min
Jul 6, 10:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bleckley, Dooly, Pulaski	30 min
Jul 6, 10:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Glascock, Washington	25 min
Jul 6, 10:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Twiggs	31 min
Jul 6, 11:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Houston	28 min
Jul 6, 11:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Stewart	26 min
Jul 6, 11:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin, Bibb, Crawford, Houston, Jones, Peach and 2 more	51 min
Jul 7, 1:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Troup	38 min
Jul 7, 2:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris, Troup	50 min
Jul 7, 5:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Montgomery, Toombs	30 min
Jul 7, 6:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee	27 min
Jul 7, 7:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris, Muscogee	37 min
Jul 7, 7:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Meriwether	30 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.