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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 14, 2021, 2:07 PM EDT for Warren County, 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
- Aug 14, 2021, 2:07 PM EDT (18:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2021, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 50
County Warren County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:06 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 1490 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1011 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
116
WWUS82 KFFC 141807
SPSFFC
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
207 PM EDT Sat Aug 14 2021
GAZ061-062-141830-
Hancock GA-Warren GA-
207 PM EDT Sat Aug 14 2021
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF SOUTHWESTERN WARREN
AND NORTHEASTERN HANCOCK COUNTIES THROUGH 230 PM EDT...
At 206 PM EDT...a strong thunderstorm was over Mayfield, or 9 miles
southwest of Warrenton...moving south at 15 mph.
HAZARD...40 to 50 mph wind...up to penny sized hail and frequent
cloud to ground lightning.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect minor damage to tree limbs and blowing around of
light...unsecured objects.
Some locations in the path of this storm include
Powelton, Shoals, Mayfield, Jewell, Beall Springs and Culverton.
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 3327 8271 3326 8273 3326 8274 3325 8276
3324 8283 3328 8293 3343 8290 3345 8279
3340 8269
TIME...MOT...LOC 1806Z 007DEG 11KT 3334 8281
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75IN
MAX WIND GUST...50MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 8:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jones | 27 min |
| Aug 13, 10:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Houston, Peach | 33 min |
| Aug 14, 1:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Oglethorpe | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 1:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Warren | 37 min |
| Aug 14, 1:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Warren | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 2:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taliaferro | 25 min |
| Aug 14, 2:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Peach | 34 min |
| Aug 14, 2:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkes | 23 min |
| Aug 14, 2:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin | 37 min |
| Aug 14, 2:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taylor | 35 min |
| Aug 14, 3:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jones | 34 min |
| Aug 14, 3:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Houston | 30 min |
| Aug 14, 3:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jasper | 31 min |
| Aug 14, 3:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Sumter | 25 min |
| Aug 14, 4:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Washington | 28 min |
| Aug 14, 4:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Pulaski | 36 min |
| Aug 14, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 6:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Cobb | 22 min |
| Aug 14, 6:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Towns | 25 min |
| Aug 14, 7:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Towns | 59 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.