Alert archive / Georgia / Special Weather Statements in 2021
Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Feb 6, 2021, 2:21 PM EST for Brooks County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 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
- Feb 6, 2021, 2:21 PM EST (19:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 6, 2021, 2:45 PM EST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
County Brooks County, GA
The radar
The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 6, 2:34 PM EST | HAIL 0.25 | 1 W Quitman, GA | SOCIAL MEDIA VIDEO OF PEA SIZED HAIL APPROXIMATELY ONE MILE WEST OF QUITMAN. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 908 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 313 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted.
942
WWUS82 KTAE 061921
SPSTAE
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
221 PM EST Sat Feb 6 2021
FLZ018-GAZ158-159-061945-
Inland Jefferson FL-Brooks GA-Thomas GA-
221 PM EST Sat Feb 6 2021
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN JEFFERSON...
SOUTHEASTERN THOMAS AND BROOKS COUNTIES UNTIL 245 PM EST...
At 221 PM EST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 9
miles south of Boston, or 9 miles northeast of Monticello, moving
northeast at 55 mph.
Pea size hail will be possible with this storm.
Locations impacted include...
Quitman, Boston, Barwick, Pidcock, Dixie, Dills, Grooverville, Brooks
Co A/p, Blue Springs, Everett, Oaklawn and Ashville.
LAT...LON 3083 8341 3081 8343 3082 8345 3078 8346
3077 8345 3075 8348 3074 8348 3065 8360
3065 8361 3064 8361 3054 8374 3065 8390
3102 8368 3084 8338 3083 8338
TIME...MOT...LOC 1921Z 217DEG 50KT 3066 8377
$$
42-DVDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 6, 12:18 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 87 min | |
| Feb 6, 12:50 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Franklin | 40 min |
| Feb 6, 12:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin | 31 min |
| Feb 6, 1:26 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Wakulla | 19 min |
| Feb 6, 1:47 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Jefferson | 28 min |
| Feb 6, 2:29 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 3 hr | |
| Feb 6, 3:24 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Dixie | 96 min |
| Feb 6, 4:52 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Dixie | 53 min |
| Feb 6, 5:27 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 33 min | |
| Feb 6, 2:43 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Brooks | 32 min |
| Feb 6, 2:59 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Berrien | 46 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.