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Special Weather Statement, NWS Jacksonville, FL

May 12, 2021Appling County, Bacon County, Georgia

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this special weather statement at May 12, 2021, 1:06 PM EDT for Appling County, Bacon County, Georgia. It was in force for 54 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: May 12, 2021, 1:06 PM EDT (17:06 UTC)
Expired: May 12, 2021, 2:00 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL

Counties Appling County, GA, Bacon County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 299 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 809 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 3.2

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at May 12, 8:38 AM EDT, 4 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 12, 8:38 AM EDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 12, 12:20 PM EDT, 46 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 12, 1:06 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Jacksonville FL
106 PM EDT Wed May 12 2021

GAZ132>135-149-250-121800-
Bacon GA-Atkinson GA-Appling GA-Coffee GA-Jeff Davis GA-
Northern Ware GA-
106 PM EDT Wed May 12 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN COFFEE...EAST
CENTRAL ATKINSON...NORTH CENTRAL WARE...BACON...SOUTHEASTERN JEFF
DAVIS AND APPLING COUNTIES UNTIL 200 PM EDT...

* At 105 PM EDT, National Weather Service meteorologists were
  tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from near West
  Green to near Nicholls to near Pearson. Movement was northeast at
  45 mph.

* Wind gusts up to 50 mph possible with these storms.

* Locations impacted include...
  Baxley, Alma, Surrency, Nicholls, West Green, New Lacy, Pine Grove
  and Bickley.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

To report severe weather, contact your nearest law enforcement
agency. You can also share your report with NWS Jacksonville on
Facebook and Twitter.

&&

LAT...LON 3187 8214 3157 8213 3156 8215 3156 8213
      3151 8213 3149 8219 3153 8223 3149 8227
      3149 8230 3146 8232 3132 8278 3148 8272
      3165 8280 3181 8249 3187 8225
TIME...MOT...LOC 1705Z 240DEG 40KT 3162 8278 3150 8270 3132 8277

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 11, 11:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Suwannee	41 min
May 12, 3:48 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	JAX		4 days
May 12, 2:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Hamilton	49 min
May 12, 2:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Union	41 min
May 12, 2:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Baker, Columbia, Hamilton	55 min
May 12, 3:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Baker	43 min
May 12, 3:12 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		93 min
May 12, 3:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Nassau	39 min
May 12, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		67 min
May 12, 4:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Saint Johns	43 min
May 12, 4:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Nassau	60 min
May 12, 4:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Nassau	59 min
May 12, 4:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Duval	28 min
May 12, 4:38 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		88 min
May 12, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Saint Johns	29 min
May 12, 4:48 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		42 min
May 12, 5:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Flagler	38 min
May 12, 5:24 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		66 min
May 12, 6:04 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		86 min
May 12, 7:29 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	JAX		31 min
May 11, 10:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Jeff Davis	51 min
May 11, 10:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Jeff Davis	43 min
May 12, 12:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Coffee	55 min
May 12, 2:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Brantley, Pierce, Wayne	43 min
May 12, 2:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Brantley, Glynn, Pierce, Ware, Wayne	46 min
May 12, 2:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Brantley	51 min
May 12, 2:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Brantley, Camden, Glynn, Wayne	47 min
May 12, 3:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Camden	30 min
May 12, 3:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Charlton	48 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.