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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Mar 17, 2021, 6:47 PM EDT for Macon County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 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
- Mar 17, 2021, 6:47 PM EDT (22:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2021, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Hail
- 0.25 in
- Wind
- 40
County Macon County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 466 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
837
WWUS82 KFFC 172247
SPSFFC
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
647 PM EDT Wed Mar 17 2021
GAZ093-095-104-105-172315-
Macon GA-Dooly GA-Sumter GA-Houston GA-
647 PM EDT Wed Mar 17 2021
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN MACON...NORTHWESTERN
DOOLY...NORTHEASTERN SUMTER AND SOUTHWESTERN HOUSTON COUNTIES UNTIL
715 PM EDT...
At 647 PM EDT...a strong thunderstorm was over Clearview, or near
Oglethorpe...moving northeast at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Up to 40 mph wind...pea sized hail and frequent cloud to
ground lightning.
IMPACT...Expect minor damage to tree limbs and blowing around of
light...unsecured objects.
Some locations in the path of this storm include
Oglethorpe, Unadilla, Montezuma, Byromville, Andersonville, Dooling,
Fountainville, Flint River Wma, Pennington, Andersonville National
Historic, Clearview, Methvins and Henderson.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
People outdoors should seek shelter immediately. If you can hear
thunder...you are close enough to be struck by lightning.
LAT...LON 3210 8409 3226 8420 3247 8385 3225 8370
TIME...MOT...LOC 2247Z 240DEG 20KT 3223 8406
HAIL...0.25IN
WIND...40MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 8:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb, Twiggs, Wilkinson | 34 min |
| Mar 16, 9:47 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gordon, Murray, Whitfield | 5 days |
| Mar 17, 2:22 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | FFC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 90 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 17, 2:36 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Whitfield | 4 days |
| Mar 17, 3:21 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Catoosa | 62 hr |
| Mar 17, 4:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade | 30 min |
| Mar 17, 5:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Schley, Webster | 34 min |
| Mar 17, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Schley, Sumter, Webster | 34 min |
| Mar 17, 5:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | FFC | Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Dade, Fannin and 8 more | 14 hr |
| Mar 17, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dooly, Macon, Schley, Sumter | 38 min |
| Mar 17, 7:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Houston, Twiggs | 30 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.