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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 31, 20214 counties in Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Mar 31, 2021, 7:55 PM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 35 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: Mar 31, 2021, 7:55 PM EDT (23:55 UTC)
Expired: Mar 31, 2021, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

Counties Brooks County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Thomas County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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
Mar 31, 7:56 PM EDT	TSTM WND GST 41	1 Sw Moody Afb, GA	AWOS STATION KVAD MOODY AFB.

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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 111 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: 49 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 885 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 153 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted.

513 
WWUS82 KTAE 312355
SPSTAE

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
755 PM EDT Wed Mar 31 2021
 
FLZ018-019-GAZ147-148-158>161-010030-
Inland Jefferson FL-Madison FL-Berrien GA-Brooks GA-Lanier GA-
Lowndes GA-Cook GA-Thomas GA-
755 PM EDT Wed Mar 31 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN JEFFERSON...NORTHERN
MADISON...SOUTHEASTERN COOK...SOUTHEASTERN BERRIEN...LANIER...
LOWNDES...EASTERN THOMAS AND BROOKS COUNTIES UNTIL 830 PM EDT...

At 755 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 8 miles north of Du Pont to near Valdosta to 7
miles southwest of Thomasville. Movement was south at 30 mph.

Winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with these storms.

Locations impacted include...
Monticello, Valdosta, Thomasville, Lake Park, Lakeland, Quitman,
Madison, Hahira, Boston, Ray City, Pavo, I-75 At Exit 16, Moody Air
Force Base, Remerton, Meigs, Dasher, Greenville, Morven, Barwick and
Cecil.

LAT...LON 3085 8301 3085 8309 3080 8310 3080 8313
      3063 8314 3063 8329 3062 8327 3052 8324
      3036 8381 3094 8402 3104 8363 3103 8357
      3105 8357 3109 8341 3125 8305 3119 8305
      3118 8297 3087 8297
TIME...MOT...LOC 2355Z 339DEG 28KT 3111 8289 3091 8336 3074 8404 

$$

AH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 31, 3:00 AM EDT	Rip Current Statement	TAE	Gulf	47 hr
Mar 31, 3:00 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	TAE		59 hr
Mar 31, 5:07 AM EDT	Gale Warning	TAE		33 hr
Mar 31, 6:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	50 min
Mar 31, 6:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton, Washington	66 min
Mar 31, 6:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Jackson	51 min
Mar 31, 7:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jackson, Washington	57 min
Mar 31, 7:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Holmes, Walton, Washington	36 min
Mar 31, 7:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Gadsden, Jackson, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty	47 min
Mar 31, 6:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill, Berrien, Colquitt, Cook, Irwin, Mitchell and 1 more	48 min
Mar 31, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Clay, Early, Miller	45 min
Mar 31, 7:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Berrien, Brooks, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes, Thomas	48 min
Mar 31, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale	53 min
Mar 31, 5:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Geneva	38 min
Mar 31, 5:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale	17 min
Mar 31, 5:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Henry, Houston	49 min
Mar 31, 6:03 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TAE	Dale, Henry	9 min

Nearby

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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.