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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 31, 20215 counties in Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 31, 2021, 7:37 PM EDT for 5 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 23 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: Jul 31, 2021, 7:37 PM EDT (23:37 UTC)
Expired: Jul 31, 2021, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 40

Counties Montgomery County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 209 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: 1160 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -93 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1021 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

029 
WWUS82 KFFC 312337
SPSFFC

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
737 PM EDT Sat Jul 31 2021
 
GAZ086-108>113-010000-
Toombs GA-Wheeler GA-Telfair GA-Emanuel GA-Wilcox GA-Montgomery GA-
Dodge GA-
737 PM EDT Sat Jul 31 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR TOOMBS...WHEELER...TELFAIR...
SOUTHERN EMANUEL...WILCOX...MONTGOMERY AND SOUTHERN DODGE COUNTIES
UNTIL 800 PM EDT...

At 736 PM EDT...a line of strong thunderstorms was along a line
extending from near Normantown to Double Run...and moving south at 10
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 these storms include
McRae, Lyons, Abbeville, Alamo, Mount Vernon, Vidalia, Helena, Lumber
City, Rochelle, Glenwood, Milan, Uvalda, Oak Park, Ailey, Rhine,
Scotland, Chauncey, Higgston, Pitts and Santa Claus.

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 3185 8318 3185 8361 3197 8361 3218 8301
      3215 8299 3220 8286 3227 8277 3235 8241
      3240 8239 3242 8233 3218 8219 3210 8220
      3180 8307
TIME...MOT...LOC 2336Z 341DEG 10KT 3227 8236 3186 8356 

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
Jul 31, 3:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Muscogee	32 min
Jul 31, 4:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Stewart	37 min
Jul 31, 5:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Macon, Schley, Stewart, Sumter, Webster	25 min
Jul 31, 5:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bleckley	24 min
Jul 31, 5:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dooly, Macon	37 min
Jul 31, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Heard, Troup	33 min
Jul 31, 6:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Meriwether, Pike, Troup	27 min
Jul 31, 6:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dooly	35 min
Jul 31, 6:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Meriwether, Pike, Upson	35 min
Jul 31, 7:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crawford	23 min
Jul 31, 7:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Muscogee	34 min
Jul 31, 7:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Stewart	29 min
Jul 31, 7:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crawford, Talbot, Taylor, Upson	25 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.