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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 1, 2021, 8:10 PM EDT for Emanuel County, Georgia. It was in force for 50 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
- Aug 1, 2021, 8:10 PM EDT (00:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2021, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Hail
- 0.25 in
- Wind
- 50
County Emanuel County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 542 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1232 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted.
994
WWUS82 KFFC 020010
SPSFFC
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
810 PM EDT Sun Aug 1 2021
GAZ085-086-098-020100-
Emanuel GA-Treutlen GA-Johnson GA-
810 PM EDT Sun Aug 1 2021
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WESTERN EMANUEL...NORTHEASTERN
TREUTLEN AND EASTERN JOHNSON COUNTIES UNTIL 900 PM EDT...
At 810 PM EDT...a strong thunderstorm was near Meeks, or 7 miles
southeast of Wrightsville...moving southeast at 25 mph.
HAZARD...40 to 50 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 this storm include
Swainsboro, Nunez, Kite, Norristown Junction, Covena, New Home,
Meeks, Norristown and Gillis Springs.
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 3274 8268 3279 8259 3256 8228 3243 8239
3248 8256
TIME...MOT...LOC 0010Z 326DEG 23KT 3268 8261
HAIL...0.25IN
WIND...50MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 8:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Sumter | 46 min |
| Aug 1, 9:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp, Dooly, Wilcox | 44 min |
| Aug 2, 3:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Sumter, Webster | 49 min |
| Aug 2, 3:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pulaski | 52 min |
| Aug 2, 4:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Stewart | 42 min |
| Aug 2, 4:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge | 46 min |
| Aug 2, 5:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Crisp | 44 min |
| Aug 2, 5:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 39 min |
| Aug 2, 5:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilcox | 48 min |
| Aug 2, 5:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wheeler | 41 min |
| Aug 2, 6:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taylor | 40 min |
| Aug 2, 6:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Montgomery | 44 min |
| Aug 2, 6:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 50 min |
| Aug 2, 7:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Treutlen | 31 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.