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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 20, 2021Dooly County, Sumter County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jun 20, 2021, 5:36 AM EDT for Dooly County, Sumter 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: Jun 20, 2021, 5:36 AM EDT (09:36 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2021, 6:00 AM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA

Counties Dooly County, GA, Sumter County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:39 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 153 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.

844 
WWUS82 KFFC 200936
SPSFFC

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
536 AM EDT Sun Jun 20 2021
 
GAZ104-105-201000-
Dooly GA-Sumter GA-
536 AM EDT Sun Jun 20 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN DOOLY AND SUMTER
COUNTIES UNTIL 600 AM EDT...

At 536 AM EDT...National Weather Service doppler radar indicated a
strong storm within a tropical rain band along a line extending from
near Huntington to near Croxton Crossroads...and moving east at 25
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 these storms include
Americus, Pinehurst, Leslie, Lilly, De Soto, Desoto, Cobb, Sumter,
Lamar, Croxton Crossroads, New Era, Flint River Wma, Huntington,
Pennington, Drayton, Maddox and Methvins.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

People outdoors should seek shelter immediately.

LAT...LON 3193 8440 3218 8413 3218 8405 3217 8403
      3218 8403 3219 8402 3220 8373 3203 8391
      3203 8396 3199 8394 3192 8402 3191 8408
      3192 8434 3187 8434
TIME...MOT...LOC 0936Z 251DEG 23KT 3204 8418 3192 8436 

$$

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, 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, 6:39 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Hancock, Warren	36 min

Nearby

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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.