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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 22, 2021Brooks County, Lanier County, Lowndes County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 22, 2021, 1:57 PM EDT for Brooks County, Lanier County, Lowndes County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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 22, 2021, 1:57 PM EDT (17:57 UTC)
Expired: Aug 22, 2021, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

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

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:01 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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 112 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: 432 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 926 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Aug 22, 10:56 AM EDT, 3 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 10:56 AM EDT, 3 hours 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 22, 1:57 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
157 PM EDT Sun Aug 22 2021

FLZ018-019-GAZ158>161-221830-
Inland Jefferson FL-Madison FL-Brooks GA-Lanier GA-Lowndes GA-
Thomas GA-
157 PM EDT Sun Aug 22 2021

...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of northeastern
Jefferson, northern Madison, central Lanier, Lowndes, southeastern
Thomas and southern Brooks Counties through 230 PM EDT...

At 156 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Moody Air Force Base to 7 miles south of
Quitman. Movement was east at 20 mph.

HAZARD...Winds up to 45 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include...
Lake Park, Lakeland, Quitman, Valdosta, I-75 At Exit 16, Moody Air
Force Base, Remerton, Dasher, Dills, Grooverville, Barretts, Everett,
Hamburg, Pinetta, Hansell, Lovett, Nankin, Empress, Clyattville and
Brooks Co A/p.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3085 8301 3085 8309 3080 8310 3080 8313
      3063 8314 3063 8328 3052 8324 3047 8324
      3052 8369 3066 8391 3103 8325 3103 8320
      3104 8320 3104 8297 3087 8297
TIME...MOT...LOC 1756Z 274DEG 19KT 3092 8323 3069 8361

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

21-WD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 21, 8:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	58 min
Aug 21, 8:50 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		55 min
Aug 22, 6:48 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		57 min
Aug 22, 6:55 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Bay	2 hr
Aug 22, 10:18 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Bay, Gulf	57 min
Aug 22, 11:21 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		84 min
Aug 22, 4:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Colquitt	29 min
Aug 22, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Cook	29 min
Aug 22, 4:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lee, Quitman, Randolph, Terrell	61 min
Aug 22, 5:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Clay, Randolph, Terrell	62 min
Aug 22, 6:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Quitman	52 min
Aug 22, 6:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Worth	40 min
Aug 22, 7:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dougherty	30 min
Aug 22, 7:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dougherty, Worth	44 min
Aug 22, 6:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee, Dale	52 min
Aug 22, 7:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee, Dale	40 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.