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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 19, 2021Crawford County, Taylor County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jun 19, 2021, 10:57 PM EDT for Crawford County, Taylor County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 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 19, 2021, 10:57 PM EDT (02:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2021, 11:45 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

Counties Crawford County, GA, Taylor County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 78 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: 252 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -116 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 651 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 340 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 516 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 4.7

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The text

As transmitted.

748 
WWUS82 KFFC 200257
SPSFFC

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
1057 PM EDT Sat Jun 19 2021
 
GAZ069-071-080>082-200345-
Monroe GA-Taylor GA-Bibb GA-Upson GA-Crawford GA-
1057 PM EDT Sat Jun 19 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN MONROE...TAYLOR...
WESTERN BIBB...EASTERN UPSON AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES UNTIL 1145 PM
EDT...

At 1057 PM EDT...National Weather Service doppler radar indicated a
strong storm within a tropical rain band over Butler...moving
northeast at 35 mph.

  HAZARD...enhanced risk of a brief tornado.

  IMPACT...Storms embedded within a tropical rainband have exhibited 
           localized rotation. A brief tornado could quickly form.

Some locations in the path of this storm include
Butler, Roberta, Reynolds, Yatesville, Culloden, The Rock, Rupert,
Redbone Crossroads, Musella, Potterville, Knoxville, Logtown, Salem,
Sandy Point, Horns, Wesley Church, Carsonville and Fickling Mill.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

People outdoors should seek shelter immediately.

LAT...LON 3250 8440 3268 8434 3269 8434 3272 8433
      3274 8429 3276 8429 3276 8432 3299 8425
      3294 8412 3293 8412 3293 8411 3282 8382
      3251 8410 3250 8413 3240 8420
TIME...MOT...LOC 0257Z 218DEG 41KT 3253 8427 

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 9:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris	30 min
Jun 19, 9:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Monroe	25 min
Jun 19, 9:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Treutlen	24 min
Jun 19, 9:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens, Treutlen	28 min
Jun 19, 10:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Marion	35 min
Jun 19, 10:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattooga	38 min
Jun 19, 10:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jefferson	37 min
Jun 19, 11:15 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Chattooga	10 hr
Jun 19, 11:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Macon, Peach	28 min
Jun 20, 2:00 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris, Muscogee	30 min
Jun 20, 2:36 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Stewart	24 min
Jun 20, 3:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Marion, Stewart	28 min
Jun 20, 3:22 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Marion, Schley, Taylor	23 min
Jun 20, 3:33 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Stewart	27 min
Jun 20, 3:46 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Taylor	29 min
Jun 20, 4:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Marion, Schley, Stewart, Webster	28 min
Jun 20, 4:12 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Macon, Marion, Schley, Sumter, Webster	33 min
Jun 20, 5:36 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dooly, Sumter	24 min
Jun 20, 6:39 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Hancock, Warren	36 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Georgia, 2021 Every special weather statement in 2021

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.