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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Jacksonville, FL

October 8, 2021Appling County, Wayne County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 8, 2021, 8:46 AM EDT for Appling County, Wayne County, Georgia. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Oct 8, 2021, 8:46 AM EDT (12:46 UTC)
Expired: Oct 8, 2021, 9:30 AM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Appling County, GA, Wayne County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 8, 9:00 AM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	6 S Surrency, GA	A FEW TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN IN THE SOUTHEAST PORTION OF THE COUNTY. THE TIME OF DAMAGE WAS ESTIMATED BASED ON RADAR DATA

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 2220 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 756 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

005 
WUUS52 KJAX 081246
SVRJAX
GAC001-305-081330-
/O.NEW.KJAX.SV.W.0161.211008T1246Z-211008T1330Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Jacksonville FL
846 AM EDT Fri Oct 8 2021

The National Weather Service in Jacksonville has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Northwestern Wayne County in southeastern Georgia...
  Eastern Appling County in southeastern Georgia...

* Until 930 AM EDT.

* At 846 AM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Surrency,
  moving east at 20 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

* Locations impacted include...
  Baxley, Surrency and Odum. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.

&&

LAT...LON 3187 8211 3186 8212 3182 8202 3162 8197
      3147 8216 3153 8223 3156 8225 3156 8226
      3161 8234 3182 8238 3189 8214 3189 8211
TIME...MOT...LOC 1246Z 259DEG 16KT 3172 8227 

TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH

$$

SHASHY

1 follow-up statement

316 
WWUS52 KJAX 081308
SVSJAX

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Jacksonville FL
908 AM EDT Fri Oct 8 2021

GAC001-305-081330-
/O.CON.KJAX.SV.W.0161.000000T0000Z-211008T1330Z/
Wayne GA-Appling GA-
908 AM EDT Fri Oct 8 2021

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 AM EDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN WAYNE AND EASTERN APPLING COUNTIES...

At 908 AM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 10 miles east of Plant Hatch to near Surrency to 6
miles northeast of Bristol, moving east at 25 mph.

HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

Locations impacted include...
Surrency and Odum. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

Torrential rainfall is occurring with these storms, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.

&&

LAT...LON 3187 8211 3186 8212 3182 8202 3162 8197
      3147 8216 3153 8223 3156 8225 3156 8226
      3161 8231 3172 8224 3185 8228 3189 8214
      3189 8211
TIME...MOT...LOC 1308Z 265DEG 23KT 3188 8218 3172 8211 3152 8214 

TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH

$$

SHASHY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 8, 6:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Coffee	48 min
Oct 8, 6:46 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Coffee	29 min
Oct 8, 7:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Coffee, Jeff Davis	60 min
Oct 8, 7:23 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Appling	52 min
Oct 8, 7:37 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Coffee	23 min
Oct 8, 7:53 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis	52 min
Oct 8, 7:58 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JAX	Coffee, Jeff Davis	3 hr
Oct 8, 8:41 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Bacon	34 min
Oct 8, 8:49 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Atkinson, Bacon, Pierce	26 min
Oct 8, 9:18 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Atkinson, Bacon, Pierce	57 min
Oct 8, 9:19 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Wayne	56 min
Oct 8, 9:41 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Brantley, Pierce, Wayne	34 min
Oct 8, 10:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Brantley, Glynn, Wayne	30 min
Oct 8, 10:26 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Clinch, Echols, Ware	49 min
Oct 8, 10:41 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Glynn	49 min
Oct 8, 10:44 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Brantley, Camden, Glynn, Wayne	31 min
Oct 8, 10:57 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Charlton	33 min
Oct 8, 11:24 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Camden	36 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.