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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 16, 2021, 3:02 PM EDT for Morgan County, Walton County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 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 16, 2021, 3:02 PM EDT (19:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2021, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
- Wind
- 40
Counties Morgan County, GA, Walton County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1005 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted.
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WWUS82 KFFC 161902
SPSFFC
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
302 PM EDT Mon Aug 16 2021
GAZ047>049-161930-
Morgan GA-Walton GA-Newton GA-
302 PM EDT Mon Aug 16 2021
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF NORTHWESTERN MORGAN,
CENTRAL WALTON AND NORTHEASTERN NEWTON COUNTIES THROUGH 330 PM EDT...
At 302 PM EDT...a strong thunderstorm was over Rutledge, or 8 miles
west of Madison...moving northwest at 20 mph.
HAZARD...40 mph wind and heavy rain.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect minor damage to tree limbs and blowing around of
light...unsecured objects. Heavy rain may cause temporary
street flooding especially in poor drainage areas.
Some locations in the path of this storm include
Monroe, Madison, Social Circle, Walnut Grove, Rutledge, Newborn, Good
Hope, Jersey, Ebenezer, Hard Labor Creek State Park, Brick Store,
Pannell and Herndonville.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
People outdoors should seek shelter immediately. Motorists should
slow down and be prepared for possible loss of control due to
hydroplaning.
LAT...LON 3358 8348 3351 8366 3353 8368 3351 8369
3375 8387 3388 8360
TIME...MOT...LOC 1902Z 156DEG 18KT 3361 8362
MAX HAIL SIZE...
MAX WIND GUST...40MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 9:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dade | 61 min |
| Aug 15, 10:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa | 31 min |
| Aug 15, 10:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker | 29 min |
| Aug 15, 11:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Dade, Walker | 35 min |
| Aug 16, 12:08 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Floyd, Murray, Walker, Whitfield | 22 min |
| Aug 16, 12:11 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin, Union | 34 min |
| Aug 16, 1:13 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Towns, Union | 32 min |
| Aug 16, 3:07 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Whitfield | 19 min |
| Aug 16, 4:32 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | FFC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts, Carroll and 65 more | 40 hr |
| Aug 16, 12:19 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | FFC | Bibb, Butts, Chattahoochee, Clarke, Clayton, Coweta and 35 more | 19 hr |
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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.