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Special Weather Statement, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 28, 2021Turner County, Georgia

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this special weather statement at Aug 28, 2021, 2:09 PM EDT for Turner County, Georgia. It was in force for 51 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 28, 2021, 2:09 PM EDT (18:09 UTC)
Expired: Aug 28, 2021, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 30

County Turner County, GA

The radar

The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:13 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 1121 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 686 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -1 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 28, 1:20 PM EDT, 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 28, 1:20 PM EDT, 49 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 28, 2:09 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
209 PM EDT Sat Aug 28 2021

GAZ128-130-131-281900-
Irwin GA-Turner GA-Ben Hill GA-
209 PM EDT Sat Aug 28 2021

...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern Irwin,
Turner and western Ben Hill Counties through 300 PM EDT...

At 209 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Mystic, or 7 miles west of Fitzgerald, moving west at 20 mph.

HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

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

Locations impacted include...
Ashburn, Fitzgerald, Mystic, Worth, Sycamore, Rebecca, Amboy,
Waterloo, Pinetta, Sibley, Inaha, Coverdale, Irwinville, Hobby,
Turner Co Airport, Irwinville Airport, Dakota, Arp, Abba and
Queensland.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3184 8322 3158 8335 3159 8343 3159 8356
      3160 8370 3162 8370 3162 8380 3180 8380
      3180 8361 3185 8361
TIME...MOT...LOC 1809Z 109DEG 18KT 3170 8339

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH

01-GONZALEZ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 27, 8:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Franklin, Gulf, Liberty	50 min
Aug 27, 8:17 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		88 min
Aug 27, 8:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jackson	49 min
Aug 27, 9:16 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		29 min
Aug 27, 9:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay, Walton	62 min
Aug 28, 3:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden	28 min
Aug 28, 3:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden	33 min
Aug 28, 4:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden	40 min
Aug 28, 6:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson, Leon	34 min
Aug 28, 6:35 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		40 min
Aug 28, 6:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon, Wakulla	52 min
Aug 28, 3:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lee, Terrell	45 min
Aug 28, 3:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Brooks, Lowndes	49 min
Aug 28, 4:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Colquitt, Dougherty, Mitchell	28 min
Aug 28, 4:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Brooks, Thomas	26 min
Aug 28, 5:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lanier, Lowndes	46 min
Aug 28, 5:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Grady	46 min
Aug 28, 5:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Baker, Decatur, Grady, Miller, Mitchell	37 min
Aug 28, 6:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Early, Miller	53 min
Aug 28, 6:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Coffee, Dale, Henry	61 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.