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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 25, 2020Montgomery County, Wheeler County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 25, 2020, 2:43 AM EDT for Montgomery County, Wheeler County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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 25, 2020, 2:43 AM EDT (06:43 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 2020, 3:15 AM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

Counties Montgomery County, GA, Wheeler County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 192 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: 2240 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 855 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 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 25, 1:57 AM EDT, 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 1:57 AM EDT, 46 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 24, 11:09 PM EDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 24, 10:33 PM EDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
1033 PM EDT Mon Aug 24 2020

GAZ112-113-250300-
Toombs GA-Montgomery GA-
1033 PM EDT Mon Aug 24 2020

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR TOOMBS AND SOUTHEASTERN
MONTGOMERY COUNTIES UNTIL 1100 PM EDT...

At 1033 PM EDT...a strong thunderstorm was near Grays Landing, or
near Plant Hatch...moving northeast at 20 mph.

  HAZARD...Up to 40 mph wind...frequent cloud to ground lightning
           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
Lyons, Vidalia, Uvalda, Higgston, Santa Claus, Alston, Center, Toombs
Central, Ohoopee, New Branch, Ponderosa, McNatt Falls, South
Thompson, English Eddy, Grays Landing, Rock Springs, Cedar Crossing,
Johnson Corner and Charlotteville.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

People outdoors should seek shelter immediately. If you can hear
thunder...you are close enough to be struck by lightning. Motorists
should slow down and be prepared for possible loss of control due to
hydroplaning.

LAT...LON 3194 8228 3193 8230 3195 8231 3193 8231
      3194 8238 3196 8238 3195 8239 3197 8244
      3197 8248 3196 8250 3195 8248 3195 8249
      3196 8254 3198 8255 3227 8244 3220 8219
      3216 8218 3214 8220 3191 8223
TIME...MOT...LOC 0233Z 204DEG 19KT 3193 8246

WIND...40MPH

Special weather statement, Aug 24, 11:02 PM EDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 24, 11:29 PM EDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 24, 11:57 PM EDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 25, 12:29 AM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 25, 2:43 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
Aug 24, 8:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Pulaski	23 min
Aug 24, 8:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Pulaski	25 min
Aug 24, 8:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Telfair, Wheeler	26 min
Aug 24, 9:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Pulaski	27 min
Aug 24, 9:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wheeler	28 min
Aug 24, 9:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Treutlen	24 min
Aug 24, 9:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Telfair	34 min
Aug 24, 9:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Treutlen	24 min
Aug 24, 9:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Toombs	37 min
Aug 24, 10:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Toombs	27 min
Aug 24, 11:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Montgomery, Toombs	28 min
Aug 24, 11:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel, Montgomery, Toombs	31 min
Aug 24, 11:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel	33 min
Aug 25, 12:29 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Emanuel	31 min
Aug 25, 3:21 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Montgomery, Treutlen, Wheeler	24 min
Aug 25, 8:39 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Pike, Spalding	6 hr
Aug 25, 9:26 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Coweta, Fayette, Meriwether	3 hr
Aug 25, 10:07 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Henry, Rockdale, Spalding	4 hr
Aug 25, 10:56 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Barrow, Gwinnett	64 min
Aug 25, 12:10 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Spalding	3 hr
Aug 25, 12:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Haralson	31 min
Aug 25, 1:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Paulding	34 min
Aug 25, 2:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Haralson, Polk	2 hr
Aug 25, 6:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Toombs	23 min
Aug 25, 6:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Toombs	48 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.