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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 17, 2021, 5:25 AM EDT for Jasper County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 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, 5:25 AM EDT (09:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 2021, 6:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
County Jasper County, GA
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:29 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 70 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.
390
WWUS82 KFFC 170925
SPSFFC
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
525 AM EDT Tue Aug 17 2021
GAZ059-072-171000-
Jones GA-Jasper GA-
525 AM EDT Tue Aug 17 2021
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF NORTHWESTERN JONES
AND SOUTHWESTERN JASPER COUNTIES THROUGH 600 AM EDT...
At 525 AM EDT...National Weather Service doppler radar indicated a
strong storm within a tropical rain band near Jarrell Plantation, or
10 miles northwest of Gray...moving north at 30 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
Monticello, McElheneys Crossroads, Adgateville and Jarrell
Plantation.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
People outdoors should seek shelter immediately.
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 100 PM EDT for central
Georgia.
LAT...LON 3322 8383 3324 8381 3326 8382 3327 8381
3331 8375 3329 8364 3306 8366 3305 8374
TIME...MOT...LOC 0925Z 170DEG 27KT 3307 8370
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, 3:39 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | FFC | Upson | 36 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, 5:40 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.