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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 6, 2018Brooks County, Colquitt County, Thomas County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2018, 2:56 PM EDT for Brooks County, Colquitt County, Thomas County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 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 6, 2018, 2:56 PM EDT (18:56 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2018, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

Counties Brooks County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Thomas County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:55 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 76 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: 2081 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 901 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 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 Aug 6, 1:57 PM EDT, 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 1:57 PM EDT, 59 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 6, 2:56 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
Issued by National Weather Service Mobile AL
256 PM EDT MON AUG 6 2018

GAZ127-145>147-157>160-061945-
Brooks GA-Worth GA-Lowndes GA-Colquitt GA-Mitchell GA-Cook GA-
Grady GA-Thomas GA-
256 PM EDT MON AUG 6 2018

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
SOUTHWESTERN COOK...NORTHEASTERN GRADY...SOUTHEASTERN MITCHELL...
NORTHWESTERN LOWNDES...THOMAS...NORTHWESTERN BROOKS...COLQUITT AND
SOUTH CENTRAL WORTH COUNTIES UNTIL 345 PM EDT...

At 253 PM EDT, A strong thunderstorm was located near Coolidge, or
11 miles south of Moultrie moving southwest at 15 mph.

Winds in excess of 30 mph will be possible with this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Pelham, Moultrie, Thomasville, Camilla, Boston, Norman Park, Doerun,
Ochlocknee, Pavo, Coolidge and Riverside.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.

&&

LAT...LON 3066 8373 3066 8375 3110 8429 3141 8382
      3102 8337
TIME...MOT...LOC 1853Z 045DEG 15KT 3101 8381

DRJ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 6, 3:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Liberty	37 min
Aug 6, 4:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	23 min
Aug 6, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Leon	14 min
Aug 6, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Leon, Wakulla	30 min
Aug 6, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay	30 min
Aug 6, 5:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson	25 min
Aug 6, 5:18 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		57 min
Aug 6, 5:19 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		56 min
Aug 6, 5:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	37 min
Aug 6, 5:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson	38 min
Aug 6, 6:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	28 min
Aug 6, 6:04 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		56 min
Aug 6, 6:09 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		66 min
Aug 6, 6:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	29 min
Aug 6, 7:03 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		57 min
Aug 6, 7:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	43 min
Aug 6, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Brooks, Thomas	47 min
Aug 6, 4:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill	26 min
Aug 6, 5:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin	31 min
Aug 6, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Ben Hill, Berrien, Irwin, Tift, Turner	55 min
Aug 6, 5:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lanier	27 min
Aug 6, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Irwin, Tift, Turner, Worth	45 min
Aug 6, 6:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lee	30 min
Aug 6, 6:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Berrien	32 min
Aug 6, 6:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Tift, Worth	48 min
Aug 6, 7:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dougherty, Lee, Mitchell, Worth	33 min
Aug 6, 7:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Baker, Calhoun	40 min
Aug 6, 7:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Early	38 min
Aug 6, 7:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Baker, Mitchell	48 min
Aug 6, 7:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Early	34 min
Aug 6, 5:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee	26 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.