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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 2, 2021Lanier County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2021, 7:11 PM EDT for Lanier County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 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: Aug 2, 2021, 7:11 PM EDT (23:11 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2021, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Lanier County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 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: 2573 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 632 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

581 
WWUS82 KTAE 022311
SPSTAE

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
711 PM EDT Mon Aug 2 2021
 
GAZ160-161-030000-
Lanier GA-Lowndes GA-
711 PM EDT Mon Aug 2 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR LANIER AND NORTHEASTERN LOWNDES
COUNTIES UNTIL 800 PM EDT...

At 710 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Lakeland, moving east at 15 mph.

Winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Lakeland, Moody Air Force Base, Meigs, Naylor, Courthouse, Greenwood,
Hansell, Stockton and Teeterville.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3087 8298 3086 8299 3086 8300 3085 8301
      3085 8321 3106 8317 3107 8317 3115 8316
      3115 8304 3118 8305 3118 8297 3087 8297
TIME...MOT...LOC 2310Z 262DEG 12KT 3104 8306 

$$

IG3

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 2, 10:32 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gulf, Jefferson and 5 more	5 days
Aug 2, 5:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jackson	41 min
Aug 2, 6:48 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		94 min
Aug 1, 9:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lee, Turner, Worth	49 min
Aug 1, 9:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Lee, Turner, Worth	29 min
Aug 1, 10:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin, Lee, Tift, Turner, Worth	47 min
Aug 1, 10:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Ben Hill, Irwin	34 min
Aug 1, 10:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dougherty, Worth	47 min
Aug 2, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lee	37 min
Aug 2, 3:44 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Randolph, Terrell	2 hr
Aug 2, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Baker	43 min
Aug 2, 4:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Berrien	44 min
Aug 2, 4:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Worth	23 min
Aug 2, 4:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Randolph	53 min
Aug 2, 4:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Worth	47 min
Aug 2, 4:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Randolph, Terrell	42 min
Aug 2, 5:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Turner	46 min
Aug 2, 5:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Dougherty, Lee, Worth	111 min
Aug 2, 6:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Cook, Lanier	40 min
Aug 2, 7:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Berrien, Cook, Lanier, Lowndes	2 hr
Aug 2, 3:01 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Henry	44 min
Aug 2, 3:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Geneva	48 min
Aug 2, 4:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Houston	47 min
Aug 2, 5:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee	46 min
Aug 2, 6:00 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Coffee	2 hr

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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.