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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jun 21, 2020, 7:26 PM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 34 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
- Jun 21, 2020, 7:26 PM EDT (23:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2020, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Wind
- 40
Counties Butts County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1488 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Jun 21, 2:40 PM EDT, 4 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 2:40 PM EDT, 4 hours 46 minutes before
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Peachtree City GA 240 PM EDT Sun Jun 21 2020 .SHORT TERM /Tonight through Monday Night/... Current radar loop shows showers and thunderstorms popping across the area as an upper level shortwave moves east through the flow. The main hazards continue to be being gusty winds, frequent lightning, and periods of heavy rain with these storms. The storms are expected to continue through the evening hours then diminish tonight as we loose daytime heating. As this wave continues to push NE tonight the better dynamics and instabilities associated with it move further north as well. There is still a slight chance these showers will continue overnight through Monday morning, but any storms that survive will be isolated in nature and mainly over N GA. The overall southwesterly flow is expected to continue Monday and Monday night and should advect additional moisture across the southeastern states through the middle of the week. This will bring additional perturbations across the area keeping precip chances elevated through Wednesday. With precip chances increasing through the week, Temperatures will slowly fall from the Mid 80s to Mid 90s down into mainly the 80s to near 90 by Wednesday. Overnight temperatures are forecast to stay mainly in the 60s to lower 70s. 01 && .LONG TERM /Tuesday through Sunday/... First portion of the long term looks to be the most active convectively as models are in good agreement with broad upper trough NW of the region allowing for persistent SW mean fetch off the Gulf and resultant ample moisture advection. GFS has high PWATs in 1.5-2 inch range Tues/Wed so will need to watch for isolated flash flooding threat with any stronger storms. Main moisture axis should shift southward across the area with a frontal passage later Wed into Thurs, then models have discrepancies on how far south the boundary/moisture field advects and how much weak ridging sets up into the end of the week. While kept higher chance pops to mainly central GA for Thurs, there's enough diurnal forcing and available energy to have continued chance pops returning to other portions of the area by Friday into the weekend despite any ridging. Temps look to be below normal Tues thru Thurs then rebound back to near normal Friday into the weekend. Baker && .AVIATION... 18Z Update... VFR ceilings and VSBYs with showers and thunderstorms popping up across the area. When the storms move across the TAF sites we will see some brief MVFR conditions with periods of heavy rain and MVFR VSBYs. These storms should diminish shortly after sunset with VFR conditions returning overnight. Will see another round of SHRA/TSRA Monday afternoon and again Tuesday afternoon. Winds will stay out of the SW at 10kt or less with some variable winds and gust 10-20kt in and around any stronger convective storms. //ATL Confidence...18Z Update... Confidence medium to high on all elements 01 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Athens 69 90 70 86 / 30 50 30 70 Atlanta 70 88 70 83 / 30 60 40 70 Blairsville 63 80 65 76 / 50 60 50 80 Cartersville 67 87 69 83 / 40 60 50 80 Columbus 71 92 71 89 / 20 40 30 70 Gainesville 68 86 68 81 / 40 60 40 70 Macon 71 92 71 89 / 20 40 20 60 Rome 67 88 69 83 / 40 60 50 80 Peachtree City 68 89 69 84 / 20 50 30 70 Vidalia 73 93 74 93 / 20 20 20 50 && .FFC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && SHORT TERM...01 LONG TERM....Baker AVIATION...01
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 21, 12:24 PM EDT, 7 hours 2 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Peachtree City GA 1224 PM EDT Sun Jun 21 2020 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-221630- 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- 1224 PM EDT Sun Jun 21 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of North and Central Georgia. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight... An increased coverage of showers and thunderstorms can be expected today. Isolated thunderstorms may become strong to severe this afternoon and evening. The main hazards will be gusty winds...frequent lightning and heavy rain. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday... Scattered showers and thunderstorms will be possible each afternoon and evening. Gusty winds, frequent lightning, and heavy rain will be possible with any storms that do develop. A cold front is expected to move through the area on Wednesday through Friday bringing additional chances for scattered thunderstorms. .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. Please relay any information about observed severe weather to the NWS while following all local, state, and CDC guidelines.
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Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 21, 3:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker | 44 min |
| Jun 21, 3:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 41 min |
| Jun 21, 3:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 34 min |
| Jun 21, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson, Polk | 18 min |
| Jun 21, 4:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb, Paulding | 36 min |
| Jun 21, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gordon | 35 min |
| Jun 21, 4:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Floyd | 46 min |
| Jun 21, 4:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Carroll | 35 min |
| Jun 21, 4:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 40 min |
| Jun 21, 4:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Heard | 36 min |
| Jun 21, 5:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cherokee | 27 min |
| Jun 21, 5:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Douglas | 33 min |
| Jun 21, 5:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Gilmer | 26 min |
| Jun 21, 5:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 23 min |
| Jun 21, 5:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 34 min |
| Jun 21, 5:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Murray | 32 min |
| Jun 21, 5:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dawson | 25 min |
| Jun 21, 5:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether | 35 min |
| Jun 21, 5:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton | 33 min |
| Jun 21, 5:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer | 30 min |
| Jun 21, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 42 min |
| Jun 21, 5:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hall | 35 min |
| Jun 21, 5:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dawson, Lumpkin | 32 min |
| Jun 21, 6:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Meriwether, Pike, Troup | 33 min |
| Jun 21, 6:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Madison | 29 min |
| Jun 21, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Lumpkin, Union | 40 min |
| Jun 21, 6:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fayette | 35 min |
| Jun 21, 6:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hall, White | 29 min |
| Jun 21, 6:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Lamar | 25 min |
| Jun 21, 6:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Troup | 48 min |
| Jun 21, 6:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Henry, Spalding | 28 min |
| Jun 21, 6:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pike | 25 min |
| Jun 21, 6:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Towns | 38 min |
| Jun 21, 6:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks, White | 34 min |
| Jun 21, 6:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Upson | 32 min |
| Jun 21, 7:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Butts, Lamar | 28 min |
| Jun 21, 7:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bleckley | 32 min |
| Jun 21, 7:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb, Jasper, Jones, Morgan, Putnam | 33 min |
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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.