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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2021, 3:11 PM EDT for Sumter County, Webster County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 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 2, 2021, 3:11 PM EDT (19:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2021, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Hail
- 0.25 in
- Wind
- 40
Counties Sumter County, GA, Webster County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -223 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1149 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted.
527
WWUS82 KFFC 021911
SPSFFC
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
311 PM EDT Mon Aug 2 2021
GAZ103-104-022000-
Sumter GA-Webster GA-
311 PM EDT Mon Aug 2 2021
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SUMTER AND WEBSTER COUNTIES UNTIL
400 PM EDT...
At 310 PM EDT...a strong thunderstorm was over Centerpoint, or near
Preston...moving east at 20 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 this storm include
Americus, Preston, Plains, Weston, Sumter, Maddox, Croxton
Crossroads, Huntington, Centerpoint, Dumas and Leveretts.
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 3197 8444 3193 8444 3192 8446 3192 8464
3208 8463 3217 8433 3216 8424 3209 8410
3192 8412 3191 8415 3192 8434 3187 8434
TIME...MOT...LOC 1910Z 256DEG 19KT 3198 8454
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 8:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Emanuel | 50 min |
| 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, 3:53 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.