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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 28, 2018Lanier County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Jun 28, 2018, 1:45 AM EDT for Lanier County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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 28, 2018, 1:45 AM EDT (05:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2018, 2:15 AM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Lanier County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 132 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.

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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: 1492 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1376 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jun 28, 1:32 AM EDT, 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 1:32 AM EDT, 13 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 10:53 PM EDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
1053 PM EDT WED JUN 27 2018

GAZ143>145-156-157-280330-
Miller GA-Decatur GA-Baker GA-Mitchell GA-Grady GA-
1053 PM EDT WED JUN 27 2018

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN DECATUR...NORTHERN
GRADY...SOUTHEASTERN MILLER...SOUTHWESTERN MITCHELL AND SOUTHWESTERN
BAKER COUNTIES UNTIL 1130 PM EDT...

At 1053 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 9
miles south of Newton, moving southeast at 25 mph.

Winds near 40 mph will be possible with this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Pelham, Camilla, Bainbridge, Whigham, Climax, Vada, Akridge, Capel,
Elpino, Hopeful, Hoggard Mill, Steinham Store, Harrells Still,
Peoples Still, Spence, Mitchell Co A/P, Branchville, Cooktown and
Bellview.

LAT...LON 3108 8411 3108 8412 3097 8412 3094 8410
      3086 8451 3119 8468 3131 8428
TIME...MOT...LOC 0253Z 329DEG 20KT 3118 8435

42-DVD

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 11:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 28, 12:03 AM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 1:45 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 2:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	21 min
Jun 28, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun	45 min
Jun 28, 5:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gilchrist	43 min
Jun 28, 5:49 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		86 min
Jun 28, 5:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	53 min
Jun 28, 5:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin, Liberty, Wakulla	32 min
Jun 28, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Leon	19 min
Jun 28, 7:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden, Madison	39 min
Jun 28, 7:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	43 min
Jun 28, 7:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon	25 min
Jun 28, 7:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Madison	52 min
Jun 28, 7:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon, Wakulla	37 min
Jun 28, 7:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes, Walton, Washington	41 min
Jun 28, 7:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Jackson, Liberty, Washington	51 min
Jun 27, 10:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Mitchell	37 min
Jun 27, 11:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Decatur, Grady, Mitchell, Thomas	57 min
Jun 27, 11:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Grady, Thomas	38 min
Jun 28, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill, Turner	43 min
Jun 28, 4:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Quitman	50 min
Jun 28, 5:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Berrien, Tift	41 min
Jun 28, 5:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Colquitt	38 min
Jun 28, 5:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Colquitt, Cook	40 min
Jun 28, 6:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay, Quitman	46 min
Jun 28, 6:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Thomas	44 min
Jun 28, 6:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Early	48 min
Jun 28, 5:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Henry	38 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.