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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 8, 2021Ben Hill County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Jun 8, 2021, 5:02 PM EDT for Ben Hill County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 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: Jun 8, 2021, 5:02 PM EDT (21:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2021, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Ben Hill County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 872 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 744 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

216 
WWUS82 KTAE 082102
SPSTAE

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
502 PM EDT Tue Jun 8 2021
 
GAZ130-131-082145-
Irwin GA-Ben Hill GA-
502 PM EDT Tue Jun 8 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN IRWIN AND
SOUTHEASTERN BEN HILL COUNTIES UNTIL 545 PM EDT...

At 502 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Ambrose, moving northwest at 10 mph.

Pea size hail and winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with
this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Ocilla, Fitzgerald, Wray, Ashton, Osierfield and Fitzgerald Municipal
A/P.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.

&&

LAT...LON 3166 8301 3164 8301 3164 8303 3162 8303
      3162 8304 3161 8305 3161 8306 3155 8306
      3149 8311 3165 8332 3181 8309 3180 8308
      3180 8306 3169 8300 3166 8300
TIME...MOT...LOC 2102Z 141DEG 10KT 3160 8308 

$$

AH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 2:01 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Madison, Taylor	119 min
Jun 8, 3:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jackson	42 min
Jun 8, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Quitman	44 min
Jun 8, 3:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Clay	39 min
Jun 8, 3:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Worth	40 min
Jun 8, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Seminole	46 min
Jun 8, 4:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Miller	39 min
Jun 8, 4:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Worth	46 min
Jun 8, 4:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Tift	49 min
Jun 8, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Baker, Calhoun	44 min
Jun 8, 4:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lee	49 min
Jun 8, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun	45 min
Jun 8, 5:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill	38 min
Jun 8, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Terrell	50 min
Jun 8, 5:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lee	42 min
Jun 8, 5:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Irwin	47 min
Jun 8, 1:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Houston	23 min
Jun 8, 5:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee	47 min
Jun 8, 6:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dale	50 min
Jun 8, 6:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Houston	43 min
Jun 8, 7:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Henry	49 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.