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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 21, 2019Wheeler County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 21, 2019, 1:53 PM EDT for Wheeler County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 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 21, 2019, 1:53 PM EDT (17:53 UTC)
Expired: Aug 21, 2019, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 40

County Wheeler County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:54 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, 5.9 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: 140 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -188 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 988 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 25 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 21, 1:50 PM EDT, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 21, 1:50 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 21, 4:49 AM EDT, 9 hours 4 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 21, 1:53 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
153 PM EDT Wed Aug 21 2019

GAZ097-109>111-211830-
Wheeler GA-Telfair GA-Laurens GA-Dodge GA-
153 PM EDT Wed Aug 21 2019

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WESTERN WHEELER...NORTHERN
TELFAIR...SOUTHERN LAURENS AND EASTERN DODGE COUNTIES UNTIL 230 PM
EDT...

At 152 PM EDT...a strong thunderstorm was over Achord, or near
McRae...moving northeast at 5 mph.

  HAZARD...Up to 40 mph wind...pea sized hail and frequent cloud to
           ground lightning.

  IMPACT...Expect minor damage to tree limbs and blowing around of
           light...unsecured objects.

Some locations in the path of this storm include
McRae, Alamo, Helena, Jay Bird Springs, Achord, Cedar Grove and
Little Ocmulgee State Park.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

People outdoors should seek shelter immediately. If you can hear
thunder...you are close enough to be struck by lightning.

LAT...LON 3216 8307 3231 8290 3208 8273 3203 8297
TIME...MOT...LOC 1752Z 238DEG 5KT 3213 8296

HAIL...0.25IN
WIND...40MPH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 20, 8:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkes	24 min
Aug 21, 3:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Johnson	27 min
Aug 21, 4:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	White	41 min
Aug 21, 4:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel	29 min
Aug 21, 4:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	White	6 hr
Aug 21, 4:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Johnson	30 min
Aug 21, 5:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Pulaski	32 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Georgia, 2019 Every special weather statement in 2019

Sources

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