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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jun 20, 2021, 3:46 AM EDT for Taylor County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 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 20, 2021, 3:46 AM EDT (07:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2021, 4:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Taylor County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:48 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted.
349
WWUS82 KFFC 200746
SPSFFC
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
346 AM EDT Sun Jun 20 2021
GAZ080-091>093-200815-
Macon GA-Schley GA-Taylor GA-Marion GA-
346 AM EDT Sun Jun 20 2021
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN MACON...NORTHWESTERN
SCHLEY...SOUTHEASTERN TAYLOR AND NORTHEASTERN MARION COUNTIES UNTIL
415 AM EDT...
At 345 AM EDT...National Weather Service doppler radar indicated a
strong storm within a tropical rain band over Tazewell, or near Buena
Vista...moving northeast at 40 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, Tazewell, Rupert, Charing, Garden Valley, Hicks, Fickling
Mill and Potterville.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
People outdoors should seek shelter immediately.
LAT...LON 3232 8448 3241 8454 3267 8418 3245 8404
TIME...MOT...LOC 0745Z 245DEG 36KT 3238 8443
$$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, 10:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crawford, Taylor | 48 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, 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 |
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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.