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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 10, 2018Dooly County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 10, 2018, 5:55 PM EDT for Dooly County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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 10, 2018, 5:55 PM EDT (21:55 UTC)
Expired: Aug 10, 2018, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

County Dooly County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 199 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: 2065 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 704 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -26 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 Aug 9, 7:35 PM EDT, 22 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 7:35 PM EDT, 22 hours 20 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
Aug 10, 4:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Twiggs	35 min
Aug 10, 4:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Upson	28 min
Aug 10, 5:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb, Crawford	28 min
Aug 10, 5:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Schley	38 min
Aug 10, 5:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin, Bibb, Twiggs	48 min
Aug 10, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Macon	33 min
Aug 10, 6:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dooly	40 min
Aug 10, 6:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crisp, Wilcox	48 min
Aug 10, 7:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilcox	33 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Georgia, 2018 Every special weather statement in 2018

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.