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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

April 14, 2019Emanuel County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Apr 14, 2019, 4:07 PM EDT for Emanuel County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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: Apr 14, 2019, 4:07 PM EDT (20:07 UTC)
Expired: Apr 14, 2019, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Wind: 50

County Emanuel County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 213 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: 413 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 712 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 390 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 373 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 4.4

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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 Apr 14, 3:39 PM EDT, 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 3:39 PM EDT, 28 minutes before

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
339 PM EDT Sun Apr 14 2019

...Another round of severe storms possibly developing in north
Georgia late afternoon into evening...

.SHORT TERM /Rest of today through Monday Night/...

While the first prefrontal wave of precip and embedded
severe/tornado potential is exiting over portions of east central
Georgia, the next focus will be with possible convective
redevelopment along a confluence zone in north GA/central TN. SPC
has this area in a meso discussion to where the shear and
some increasing instability with previous clearing could allow for
another round of strong to severe storms capable of hail, damaging
winds, and tornadoes. The HRRR and Nam Nest models have
consistently indicated such convection occurring over the last 2
days of runs. Cannot rule out another Tornado Watch in the next
hour or two.

Otherwise drier air will build in tonight through Monday Night
into midweek as a strong ridge builds in.

Baker

&&

.LONG TERM /Tuesday through Saturday/...

Forecast looks largely on track with next storm system still in
the late Thurs/Friday period and lingering upper trough influence
going into the weekend. No changes made and previous discussion
follows...

Baker

.LONG TERM /Monday Night through Saturday/...
Extended forecast starts with high pressure over the area, lasting
through mid week. Next system moves in late Thursday, and have
backed off pops Wednesday given the slightly later model
solutions. Strong frontal system looks well organized and brings
the next chance for severe storms. SPC already highlighting the
area for Day 6 and 7 severe threat risk, and so this system will
certainly be the forecast concern through the latter half of the
week.

A secondary wave swings through the long-wave trough Friday night
into Saturday, keeping chance pops in the forecast. High pressure
returns to the state late Saturday. Saturday, expect the coolest
temperatures for the week, with highs only in the 60s, and lows
largely in the mid to upper 40s by Sunday morning.

31

&&

.AVIATION...
18Z Update...
Storms and rain in first round exiting east, where will need to
watch some redevelopment here in the next few hours across mainly
the northern sites. Cannot rule out strong to severe storms given
the environment and will update TAFs once trends are assessed if
need to add TS or higher winds. Otherwise cu mainly in the
2500-5000 ft range. Could again have MVFR cigs overnight in the
north then scatter out for Monday. Enhanced SW to west winds 14-18
kts gusting 22-28 kts then slightly lower Monday out of the WNW.

//ATL Confidence...18Z Update...
Medium on redevelopment of additional storms for northern sites
this afternoon into evening.
Medium on overnight cigs.
High on all else.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
Athens          76  45  67  45 / 100  30   0   0
Atlanta         76  45  66  48 / 100  30   0   0
Blairsville     71  37  59  40 / 100  40   0   0
Cartersville    78  42  65  45 / 100  30   0   0
Columbus        79  47  71  48 / 100  20   0   0
Gainesville     74  44  64  45 / 100  30   0   0
Macon           79  47  69  46 / 100  20   0   0
Rome            77  42  66  44 /  90  30   0   0
Peachtree City  78  43  68  45 / 100  20   0   0
Vidalia         83  52  72  49 /  80  40   0   0

&&

.FFC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
Tornado Watch until 7 PM EDT this evening for the following
zones: Baldwin...Dodge...Emanuel...Glascock...Greene...Hancock...
Jefferson...Johnson...Laurens...Madison...Montgomery...
Oglethorpe...Taliaferro...Telfair...Toombs...Treutlen...Warren...
Washington...Wheeler...Wilkes...Wilkinson.

Wind Advisory until 10 PM EDT this evening for the following
zones: Baldwin...Banks...Barrow...Bartow...Bibb...Bleckley...
Butts...Carroll...Catoosa...Chattahoochee...Chattooga...
Cherokee...Clarke...Clayton...Cobb...Coweta...Crawford...Crisp...
Dade...Dawson...DeKalb...Dodge...Dooly...Douglas...Emanuel...
Fannin...Fayette...Floyd...Forsyth...Gilmer...Glascock...
Gordon...Greene...Gwinnett...Hall...Hancock...Haralson...
Harris...Heard...Henry...Houston...Jackson...Jasper...
Jefferson...Johnson...Jones...Lamar...Laurens...Lumpkin...
Macon...Madison...Marion...Meriwether...Monroe...Montgomery...
Morgan...Murray...Muscogee...Newton...North Fulton...Oconee...
Oglethorpe...Paulding...Peach...Pickens...Pike...Polk...
Pulaski...Putnam...Rockdale...Schley...South Fulton...Spalding...
Stewart...Sumter...Talbot...Taliaferro...Taylor...Telfair...
Toombs...Towns...Treutlen...Troup...Twiggs...Union...Upson...
Walker...Walton...Warren...Washington...Webster...Wheeler...
White...Whitfield...Wilcox...Wilkes...Wilkinson.

&&

SHORT TERM...Baker
LONG TERM....31/Baker
AVIATION...Baker

Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 14, 2:31 PM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
231 PM EDT Sun Apr 14 2019

GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086-
089>098-102>113-151845-
Baldwin-Banks-Barrow-Bartow-Bibb-Bleckley-Butts-Carroll-Catoosa-
Chattahoochee-Chattooga-Cherokee-Clarke-Clayton-Cobb-Coweta-
Crawford-Crisp-Dade-Dawson-DeKalb-Dodge-Dooly-Douglas-Emanuel-
Fannin-Fayette-Floyd-Forsyth-Gilmer-Glascock-Gordon-Greene-
Gwinnett-Hall-Hancock-Haralson-Harris-Heard-Henry-Houston-Jackson-
Jasper-Jefferson-Johnson-Jones-Lamar-Laurens-Lumpkin-Macon-
Madison-Marion-Meriwether-Monroe-Montgomery-Morgan-Murray-
Muscogee-Newton-North Fulton-Oconee-Oglethorpe-Paulding-Peach-
Pickens-Pike-Polk-Pulaski-Putnam-Rockdale-Schley-South Fulton-
Spalding-Stewart-Sumter-Talbot-Taliaferro-Taylor-Telfair-Toombs-
Towns-Treutlen-Troup-Twiggs-Union-Upson-Walker-Walton-Warren-
Washington-Webster-Wheeler-White-Whitfield-Wilcox-Wilkes-
Wilkinson-
231 PM EDT Sun Apr 14 2019

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of North and
Central Georgia.

.DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight...

A line of showers and thunderstorms is ongoing across east Georgia
this afternoon. Damaging wind gusts can be expected with any severe
thunderstorms that occur, and a few tornadoes cannot be ruled out.
A Tornado Watch remains in effect for portions of east Georgia at
this time.

There is a chance that some scattered showers and thunderstorms
could redevelop across north Georgia in the late afternoon and
evening. Although the potential for severe weather is low, a few
stronger storms could produce small hail and brief, gusty winds.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday...

Another front will move across the state Thursday and Friday
bringing another chance of thunderstorms to the area.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not requested but spotters are encouraged
to submit reports of severe weather through the web by going to
weather.gov/atlanta.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 14, 3:45 PM EDT, 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
345 PM EDT SUN APR 14 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1238 PM     TSTM WND DMG     3 E BETWEEN             33.82N  83.76W
04/14/2019                   WALTON             GA   911 CALL CENTER

            TREES AND POWER LINES REPORTED DOWN AT THE 1700 BLOCK
            OF DOUBLE SPRINGS CHURCH RD.

&&

EVENT NUMBER FFC1900155

KING

Local storm report, Apr 14, 3:48 PM EDT, 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA
348 PM EDT SUN APR 14 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1238 PM     TSTM WND DMG     2 WSW MONROE            33.79N  83.74W
04/14/2019                   WALTON             GA   911 CALL CENTER

            REPORT OF TREE DOWN ON POWER LINES, AND ALSO A BLOWN
            TRANSFORMER ALONG BULLDOG DR. POWER OUTAGE IN THE AREA
            AFTERWARDS.

&&

EVENT NUMBER FFC1900156

KING

Local storm report, Apr 14, 3:53 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 14, 4:07 PM EDT, 0 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
Apr 14, 7:33 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dade	42 min
Apr 14, 7:49 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Dade, Walker	41 min
Apr 14, 7:58 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Floyd	47 min
Apr 14, 8:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Catoosa, Walker, Whitfield	30 min
Apr 14, 8:58 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Whitfield	32 min
Apr 14, 9:20 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Heard, Troup	25 min
Apr 14, 9:42 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Harris, Muscogee	48 min
Apr 14, 9:44 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Haralson, Polk	17 min
Apr 14, 10:12 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Heard, Troup	33 min
Apr 14, 10:26 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Paulding	34 min
Apr 14, 10:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Harris, Meriwether, Muscogee, Talbot	45 min
Apr 14, 10:45 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Forsyth	30 min
Apr 14, 10:57 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Talbot, Upson	48 min
Apr 14, 11:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Coweta, Heard, Troup	36 min
Apr 14, 11:11 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Towns, Union	34 min
Apr 14, 11:17 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Lamar, Pike, Talbot, Upson	28 min
Apr 14, 11:32 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cherokee, Cobb, Douglas, Fulton	28 min
Apr 14, 11:40 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Henry, Lamar, Pike, Spalding	35 min
Apr 14, 11:53 AM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	FFC	Butts, Henry, Spalding	14 min
Apr 14, 11:58 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clayton, Dawson, DeKalb, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton and 1 more	32 min
Apr 14, 12:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Newton, Rockdale, Walton	24 min
Apr 14, 12:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Gwinnett, Jackson, Newton, Oconee, Rockdale and 1 more	42 min
Apr 14, 12:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Houston, Twiggs	24 min
Apr 14, 12:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crawford, Taylor	34 min
Apr 14, 12:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Forsyth	33 min
Apr 14, 12:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dawson, Lumpkin, Towns, Union	30 min
Apr 14, 12:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clayton, DeKalb	29 min
Apr 14, 12:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Jones, Twiggs, Wilkinson	47 min
Apr 14, 12:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Sumter	28 min
Apr 14, 12:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Banks, Jackson	36 min
Apr 14, 12:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Lumpkin, Towns, White	34 min
Apr 14, 12:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dooly	16 min
Apr 14, 1:01 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	29 min
Apr 14, 1:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lumpkin, White	26 min
Apr 14, 1:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crisp, Dooly, Houston, Pulaski, Twiggs, Wilcox	50 min
Apr 14, 1:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Hall, Jackson	26 min
Apr 14, 1:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Hancock	36 min
Apr 14, 1:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks, Jackson	32 min
Apr 14, 1:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Warren	33 min
Apr 14, 1:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bleckley, Pulaski	31 min
Apr 14, 2:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge, Telfair, Wilcox	36 min
Apr 14, 2:16 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Dodge, Telfair, Wilcox	29 min
Apr 14, 2:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Dodge, Laurens, Pulaski, Wilcox	17 min
Apr 14, 2:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Dodge, Laurens, Telfair, Wheeler	34 min
Apr 14, 3:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Laurens	30 min
Apr 14, 3:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	27 min
Apr 14, 3:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Treutlen	25 min
Apr 14, 3:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilcox	23 min
Apr 14, 3:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jefferson	25 min
Apr 14, 3:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Treutlen	33 min
Apr 14, 3:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dodge	31 min
Apr 14, 3:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dodge, Laurens, Telfair, Wheeler	23 min
Apr 14, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jefferson	16 min
Apr 14, 4:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Toombs	28 min
Apr 14, 4:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel	12 min
Apr 14, 4:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Union	26 min
Apr 14, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cherokee, Pickens	30 min
Apr 14, 5:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cherokee	28 min
Apr 14, 5:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Toombs	10 min
Apr 14, 5:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Union	13 min
Apr 14, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth, Lumpkin, Towns, Union and 1 more	44 min
Apr 14, 5:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Toombs	27 min
Apr 14, 5:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Douglas, Fulton	34 min
Apr 14, 6:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Lumpkin, Towns, White	32 min
Apr 14, 6:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cherokee, Dawson	31 min
Apr 14, 6:17 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Dawson, Lumpkin	6 hr
Apr 14, 6:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cobb, Douglas, Fulton	33 min
Apr 14, 6:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	White	29 min
Apr 14, 6:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Union	27 min
Apr 14, 6:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clayton, Fayette	23 min
Apr 14, 6:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gwinnett	33 min
Apr 14, 7:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	DeKalb, Gwinnett	23 min
Apr 14, 7:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Barrow, Jackson	36 min
Apr 14, 7:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, DeKalb, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett	18 min
Apr 14, 7:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts	30 min
Apr 14, 7:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jackson	31 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.