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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 17, 2021, 3:39 AM EDT for Upson County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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 17, 2021, 3:39 AM EDT (07:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 2021, 4:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Upson County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 288 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 457 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
186
WWUS82 KFFC 170739
SPSFFC
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
339 AM EDT Tue Aug 17 2021
GAZ068-069-170815-
Upson GA-Pike GA-
339 AM EDT Tue Aug 17 2021
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF SOUTHEASTERN PIKE
AND CENTRAL UPSON COUNTIES THROUGH 415 AM EDT...
At 338 AM EDT...National Weather Service doppler radar indicated a
strong storm within a tropical rain band 3 miles northwest of Salem,
or 7 miles southeast of Thomaston...moving north at 35 mph.
HAZARD...Enhanced risk of a brief tornado.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Storms embedded within a tropical rainband have exhibited
localized rotation. A brief tornado could quickly form.
Some locations in the path of this storm include
Thomaston, Lincoln Park, Sunset Village, Atwater, Lifsey Springs,
Redbone Crossroads, Hannahs Mill and Salem.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
People outdoors should seek shelter immediately.
LAT...LON 3307 8438 3302 8427 3299 8427 3299 8425
3275 8421 3274 8427 3298 8445
TIME...MOT...LOC 0738Z 161DEG 32KT 3279 8426
MAX HAIL SIZE...
MAX WIND GUST...
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 12:53 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee | 7 min |
| Aug 17, 12:54 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Chattahoochee | 21 min |
| Aug 17, 1:18 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Muscogee | 27 min |
| Aug 17, 2:49 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Taylor | 26 min |
| Aug 17, 3:01 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Taylor | 29 min |
| Aug 17, 3:04 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge | 26 min |
| Aug 17, 3:10 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Macon, Taylor | 23 min |
| Aug 17, 3:25 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge | 35 min |
| Aug 17, 4:05 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Upson | 25 min |
| Aug 17, 4:21 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb | 24 min |
| Aug 17, 4:38 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 37 min |
| Aug 17, 4:39 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta, Heard, Meriwether, Troup | 14 min |
| Aug 17, 4:42 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Houston | 33 min |
| Aug 17, 4:47 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Coweta | 28 min |
| Aug 17, 5:04 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Bibb | 26 min |
| Aug 17, 5:06 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Bibb, Houston | 24 min |
| Aug 17, 5:25 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jasper | 35 min |
| Aug 17, 5:40 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Twiggs | 35 min |
| Aug 17, 5:42 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Dodge | 33 min |
| Aug 17, 5:48 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Twiggs, Wilkinson | 16 min |
| Aug 17, 6:17 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Greene | 28 min |
| Aug 17, 6:18 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Greene, Morgan, Oconee | 20 min |
| Aug 17, 6:26 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Jones, Wilkinson | 17 min |
| Aug 17, 6:35 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkinson | 25 min |
| Aug 17, 6:54 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkinson | 36 min |
| Aug 17, 6:55 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Laurens | 35 min |
| Aug 17, 7:06 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Putnam | 24 min |
| Aug 17, 7:16 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Johnson | 29 min |
| Aug 17, 7:19 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Johnson, Laurens, Washington | 26 min |
| Aug 17, 7:29 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Baldwin | 31 min |
| Aug 17, 7:50 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Jones | 25 min |
| Aug 17, 7:50 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Morgan | 25 min |
| Aug 17, 7:58 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Clarke | 32 min |
| Aug 17, 8:04 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 8:06 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Hancock | 24 min |
| Aug 17, 8:09 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Washington | 36 min |
| Aug 17, 8:14 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Oconee | 31 min |
| Aug 17, 8:22 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 8:24 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Morgan, Oconee, Walton | 19 min |
| Aug 17, 8:31 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Fulton, Gwinnett | 5 hr |
| Aug 17, 8:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 17, 8:48 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Washington | 27 min |
| Aug 17, 8:56 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Warren | 34 min |
| Aug 17, 9:26 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 4 hr |
| Aug 17, 9:35 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Wilkes | 25 min |
| Aug 17, 9:38 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton | 8 hr |
| Aug 17, 9:41 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Glascock | 34 min |
| Aug 17, 9:58 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks | 32 min |
| Aug 17, 10:18 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Banks | 27 min |
| Aug 17, 10:19 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Elbert | 11 min |
| Aug 17, 10:26 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Banks | 30 min |
| Aug 17, 10:32 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Banks, Hall, Jackson, Madison | 5 hr |
| Aug 17, 10:33 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 10:57 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb | 2 hr |
| Aug 17, 11:09 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | White | 36 min |
| Aug 17, 11:25 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | White | 20 min |
| Aug 17, 11:29 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Union | 31 min |
| Aug 17, 12:00 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Banks | 9 hr |
| Aug 17, 12:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Hall, Lumpkin, Towns, Union, White | 6 hr |
| Aug 17, 12:21 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | White | 7 hr |
| Aug 17, 1:00 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Towns | 9 hr |
| Aug 17, 2:46 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Towns | 21 hr |
| Aug 17, 3:18 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | FFC | Polk | 5 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.