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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

May 18, 2020Baldwin County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at May 18, 2020, 11:52 AM EDT for Baldwin 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: May 18, 2020, 11:52 AM EDT (15:52 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 2020, 12:15 PM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Wind: 40

County Baldwin County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:56 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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 174 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 791 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 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 May 18, 7:40 AM EDT, 4 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 18, 7:40 AM EDT, 4 hours 12 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 18, 4:45 AM EDT, 7 hours 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 18, 11:52 AM 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
May 18, 2:06 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Laurens	24 min
May 18, 2:29 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Laurens	46 min
May 18, 12:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taliaferro	26 min
May 18, 1:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkes	45 min
May 18, 2:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Harris, Muscogee, Stewart	37 min
May 18, 2:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Troup	25 min
May 18, 3:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crisp, Dooly, Macon, Peach, Sumter	45 min
May 18, 3:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crawford, Monroe, Upson	26 min
May 18, 5:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin, Jasper, Jones, Morgan, Newton, Putnam and 1 more	24 min
May 18, 5:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton	32 min
May 18, 5:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Greene, Morgan, Oconee, Putnam, Walton	38 min
May 18, 5:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Cherokee, Gwinnett	23 min
May 18, 6:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clarke, Greene, Oconee, Walton	33 min
May 18, 6:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Barrow, Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth, Gwinnett, Jackson and 1 more	30 min
May 18, 6:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Glascock	52 min
May 18, 6:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taliaferro, Warren	23 min
May 18, 6:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clarke, Jackson, Madison	34 min
May 18, 6:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dawson, Hall, Lumpkin	28 min
May 18, 6:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Greene	37 min
May 18, 7:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Banks, Madison	32 min
May 18, 7:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Hall, Lumpkin, White	28 min
May 18, 7:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Wilkes	32 min
May 18, 7:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taliaferro, Wilkes	22 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.