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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2021, 5:34 PM EDT for Wheeler County, Georgia. It was in force for 41 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, 5:34 PM EDT (21:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2021, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Hail
- 0.25 in
- Wind
- 50
County Wheeler County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 201 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.
474
WWUS82 KFFC 022134
SPSFFC
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
534 PM EDT Mon Aug 2 2021
GAZ097-109>111-022215-
Wheeler GA-Telfair GA-Laurens GA-Dodge GA-
534 PM EDT Mon Aug 2 2021
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN WHEELER...NORTHERN
TELFAIR...SOUTHEASTERN LAURENS AND EASTERN DODGE COUNTIES UNTIL 615
PM EDT...
At 534 PM EDT...a strong thunderstorm was near Little Ocmulgee State
Park, or near Alamo...moving northeast at 15 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
Alamo, Helena, Glenwood, Jay Bird Springs, Achord, Landsburg, Cedar
Grove and Little Ocmulgee State Park.
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 3209 8304 3219 8304 3231 8282 3227 8270
3215 8267 3207 8297
TIME...MOT...LOC 2134Z 234DEG 11KT 3217 8289
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, 8:10 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, 3:11 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, 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.