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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jan 2, 2021, 6:51 PM EST for Telfair County, Wheeler 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 2, 2021, 6:51 PM EST (23:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 2, 2021, 7:15 PM EST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Telfair County, GA, Wheeler County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 794 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
232
WWUS82 KFFC 022351
SPSFFC
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
651 PM EST Sat Jan 2 2021
GAZ097-098-109>112-030015-
Wheeler GA-Telfair GA-Treutlen GA-Montgomery GA-Laurens GA-Dodge GA-
651 PM EST Sat Jan 2 2021
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WHEELER...TELFAIR...SOUTHWESTERN
TREUTLEN...WESTERN MONTGOMERY...SOUTHEASTERN LAURENS AND SOUTHEASTERN
DODGE COUNTIES UNTIL 715 PM EST...
At 649 PM EST...an area of heavy rain was near Workmore, or 12 miles
south of McRae...moving northeast at 45 mph.
HAZARD...Heavy rain.
IMPACT...Heavy rain may cause temporary street flooding especially
in poor drainage areas.
Some locations in the path of this storm include
McRae, Alamo, Mount Vernon, Helena, Lumber City, Glenwood, Milan,
Uvalda, Cadwell, Ailey, Scotland, Chauncey, Jacksonville, Towns,
Horse Creek Wma, Spring Hill, Cedar Grove, Barnhill, Jay Bird Springs
and China Hill.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Motorists should slow down and be prepared for possible loss of
control due to hydroplaning.
LAT...LON 3180 8308 3181 8309 3181 8313 3236 8308
3233 8258 3197 8248 3196 8250 3196 8249
3195 8250 3196 8257 3193 8259 3192 8268
3190 8269 3186 8276 3185 8279 3184 8278
3182 8284 3178 8287 3179 8298 3178 8301
TIME...MOT...LOC 2349Z 217DEG 37KT 3189 8290
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 7:11 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery, Toombs | 34 min |
| Jan 1, 7:18 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 27 min |
| Jan 2, 12:44 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Cherokee, Clarke, Dawson, DeKalb and 20 more | 9 hr |
| Jan 2, 11:17 AM EST | Flash Flood Watch | FFC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Crisp, Dodge, Dooly and 26 more | 11 hr |
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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.