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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Mar 18, 2021, 10:32 AM EDT for Dodge 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 18, 2021, 10:32 AM EDT (14:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 2021, 11:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Wind
- 50
County Dodge County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:36 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 583 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 480 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 83 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 398 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 542 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 5.7
The text
As transmitted.
616
WWUS82 KFFC 181432
SPSFFC
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
1032 AM EDT Thu Mar 18 2021
GAZ096-097-107>109-181500-
Wilcox GA-Laurens GA-Bleckley GA-Dodge GA-Pulaski GA-
1032 AM EDT Thu Mar 18 2021
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN WILCOX...
SOUTHWESTERN LAURENS...SOUTHEASTERN BLECKLEY...NORTHWESTERN DODGE AND
SOUTHEASTERN PULASKI COUNTIES UNTIL 1100 AM EDT...
At 1031 AM EDT...National Weather Service doppler radar indicated a
line of strong storms along a line extending from near Baileys Park
to near Pope City...and moving east at 45 mph.
HAZARD...40 to 50 mph wind and increased chance of a brief
tornado.
IMPACT...While winds should result in minor damage to tree limbs
and blowing around of light...unsecured objects...the
leading edge of this line of storms has also exhibited
areas of localized rotation. A brief tornado could
quickly form.
Some locations in the path of these storms include
Eastman, Chester, Cadwell, Pineview, Union, Dubois, Gresston,
Plainfield, Empire, Yonkers, Cedar Creek, Roddy, Pope City, Baileys
Park, Rowland, Ocmulgee Banks, Finleyson and Rebie.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
People outdoors should seek shelter immediately.
LAT...LON 3248 8315 3231 8292 3206 8324 3201 8361
3230 8343
TIME...MOT...LOC 1431Z 250DEG 37KT 3227 8333 3203 8354
WIND...50MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 8:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Twiggs | 29 min |
| Mar 17, 11:32 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Walker | 12 hr |
| Mar 18, 12:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon, Haralson, Paulding and 1 more | 48 min |
| Mar 18, 12:23 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Gordon and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 18, 12:44 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Harris, Muscogee, Stewart | 31 min |
| Mar 18, 1:01 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bartow, Cherokee, Haralson, Paulding, Polk | 29 min |
| Mar 18, 2:12 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Catoosa | 22 hr |
| Mar 18, 3:21 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Murray, Whitfield | 47 hr |
| Mar 18, 4:09 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | FFC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 90 more | 16 hr |
| Mar 18, 9:34 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp, Dooly | 26 min |
| Mar 18, 9:57 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pulaski | 33 min |
| Mar 18, 10:58 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson, Laurens | 32 min |
| Mar 18, 11:07 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge | 23 min |
| Mar 18, 2:38 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Gwinnett | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 7:13 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Floyd | 20 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.