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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 6, 2018Baker County, Calhoun County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2018, 7:20 PM EDT for Baker County, Calhoun County, Georgia. It was in force for 40 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, 7:20 PM EDT (23:20 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2018, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

Counties Baker County, GA, Calhoun County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 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

As transmitted.

530 
WWUS82 KTAE 062320
SPSTAE

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
720 PM EDT MON AUG 6 2018
 
GAZ122-123-125-144-070000-
Randolph GA-Baker GA-Dougherty GA-Calhoun GA-
720 PM EDT MON AUG 6 2018

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN DOUGHERTY...
SOUTHEASTERN RANDOLPH...NORTHWESTERN BAKER AND CALHOUN COUNTIES IN
SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA UNTIL 800 PM EDT...

At 720 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Morgan, moving southwest at 10 mph.

Winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Morgan, Edison, Arlington, Shellman, Leary, Iveys Mill, Milford,
Parksville, Carnegie, Moye, Holt, Ducker, Cordrays Mill, Fountain
Bridge, Goffs Mill, Commissary Hill, Turman, Shivers Mill, Aycock
Mill and Bermuda.

LAT...LON 3177 8456 3176 8457 3168 8454 3162 8454
      3162 8440 3155 8432 3125 8446 3139 8464
      3143 8464 3143 8470 3153 8482 3156 8480
      3157 8482 3159 8482 3159 8483 3162 8482
      3162 8489 3178 8460
TIME...MOT...LOC 2320Z 066DEG 11KT 3159 8453 

$$

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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, 2:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Brooks, Colquitt, Thomas	49 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, 7:22 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.