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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

August 25, 2021Muscogee County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Aug 25, 2021, 5:29 PM EDT for Muscogee County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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 25, 2021, 5:29 PM EDT (21:29 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 2021, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 40

County Muscogee County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 90 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1222 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1035 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

903 
WWUS82 KFFC 252129
SPSFFC

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Peachtree City GA
529 PM EDT Wed Aug 25 2021
 
GAZ078-079-089-090-252200-
Chattahoochee GA-Harris GA-Talbot GA-Muscogee GA-
529 PM EDT Wed Aug 25 2021

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF NORTHEASTERN
MUSCOGEE, NORTHEASTERN CHATTAHOOCHEE, SOUTHWESTERN TALBOT AND
SOUTHEASTERN HARRIS COUNTIES THROUGH 600 PM EDT...

At 529 PM EDT...a strong thunderstorm was near Box Springs, or 9
miles southwest of Talbotton...moving northwest at 15 mph.

HAZARD...Up to 40 mph wind...pea 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
Waverly Hall, Upatoi, Ellerslie, Flat Rock, Box Springs, Midland,
Kenwood, Juniper, Cataula, Baughville and Olive Branch.

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 3276 8486 3267 8457 3252 8459 3253 8461
      3253 8463 3249 8464 3250 8465 3249 8466
      3249 8491
TIME...MOT...LOC 2129Z 112DEG 14KT 3259 8465 

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25IN
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 24, 8:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Paulding	34 min
Aug 25, 1:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Pulaski	42 min
Aug 25, 2:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Johnson	26 min
Aug 25, 2:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crisp	26 min
Aug 25, 3:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Johnson	40 min
Aug 25, 3:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Murray	30 min
Aug 25, 4:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dodge	24 min
Aug 25, 5:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee	25 min
Aug 25, 5:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris	31 min
Aug 25, 6:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Barrow, Clarke, Greene, Jackson, Oconee, Oglethorpe	23 min
Aug 25, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Fulton	28 min
Aug 25, 7:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Monroe	24 min
Aug 25, 7:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Haralson, Polk	30 min
Aug 25, 7:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Walton	33 min
Aug 25, 7:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Carroll	35 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.