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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jan 3, 2020, 1:21 PM EST for Jasper County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 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
- Jan 3, 2020, 1:21 PM EST (18:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2020, 1:45 PM EST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Wind
- 40
County Jasper County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 73 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 234 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 530 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 80 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
453
WWUS82 KFFC 031821
SPSFFC
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
121 PM EST Fri Jan 3 2020
GAZ049-058>060-031845-
Butts GA-Morgan GA-Putnam GA-Jasper GA-
121 PM EST Fri Jan 3 2020
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN BUTTS...SOUTHWESTERN
MORGAN...WESTERN PUTNAM AND JASPER COUNTIES UNTIL 145 PM EST...
At 120 PM EST...a strong thunderstorm was over Flovilla, or near
Jackson...moving northeast at 40 mph.
HAZARD...40 mph wind and heavy rain.
IMPACT...Expect minor damage to tree limbs and blowing around of
light...unsecured objects. Heavy rain may cause temporary
street flooding especially in poor drainage areas.
Some locations in the path of this storm include
Monticello, Flovilla, Shady Dale, Calvin, Farrar, Eudora and
McElheneys Crossroads.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
People outdoors should seek shelter immediately. Motorists should
slow down and be prepared for possible loss of control due to
hydroplaning.
LAT...LON 3320 8385 3320 8390 3329 8394 3349 8369
3348 8368 3349 8367 3350 8368 3353 8364
3342 8350 3327 8349
TIME...MOT...LOC 1820Z 240DEG 36KT 3327 8385
WIND...40MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 7:17 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton | 48 hr |
| Jan 2, 7:23 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Cobb | 118 min |
| Jan 2, 11:31 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth | 4 hr |
| Jan 3, 6:12 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Cherokee, Clarke, Cobb and 19 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 3, 8:29 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 7 hr |
| Jan 3, 8:38 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether, Troup | 37 min |
| Jan 3, 8:45 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, DeKalb, Fayette, Fulton | 30 min |
| Jan 3, 9:15 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | DeKalb, Henry, Rockdale | 30 min |
| Jan 3, 9:17 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether, Spalding | 28 min |
| Jan 3, 9:45 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee | 30 min |
| Jan 3, 10:25 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Butts, Jasper, Morgan | 35 min |
| Jan 3, 11:24 AM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 61 min |
| Jan 3, 12:54 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Macon | 36 min |
| Jan 3, 1:08 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkes | 37 min |
| Jan 3, 1:33 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Houston | 27 min |
| Jan 3, 1:35 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp | 25 min |
| Jan 3, 1:41 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene, Morgan | 34 min |
| Jan 3, 1:50 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Macon, Schley | 25 min |
| Jan 3, 1:55 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jasper | 35 min |
| Jan 3, 2:01 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp, Dooly | 29 min |
| Jan 3, 2:13 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkes | 32 min |
| Jan 3, 2:26 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge, Pulaski | 34 min |
| Jan 3, 2:37 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Washington, Wilkinson | 23 min |
| Jan 3, 3:20 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilcox | 25 min |
| Jan 3, 3:43 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp | 32 min |
| Jan 3, 3:48 PM EST | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett, Walton | 3 hr |
| Jan 3, 3:57 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Twiggs | 33 min |
| Jan 3, 4:55 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 35 min |
| Jan 3, 5:54 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jefferson | 21 min |
| Jan 3, 6:00 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 15 min |
| Jan 3, 6:27 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 33 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.