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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

July 31, 2024Dooly County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jul 31, 2024, 2:13 PM EDT for Dooly County, Georgia. It was in force for 32 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: Jul 31, 2024, 2:13 PM EDT (18:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 31, 2024, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 40

County Dooly County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 2294 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 771 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 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 Atlanta, GA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jul 31, 1:51 PM EDT, 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 1:51 PM EDT, 22 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 31, 5:42 AM EDT, 8 hours 31 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 31, 12:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 31, 12:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 31, 12:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 31, 1:41 PM EDT, 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 31, 1:54 PM EDT, 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 31, 2:13 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Atlanta, GA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 30, 8:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Floyd, Polk	28 min
Jul 30, 8:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Banks, Barrow, Jackson	23 min
Jul 30, 8:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton, Gwinnett and 3 more	26 min
Jul 30, 8:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jasper	33 min
Jul 30, 8:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton	44 min
Jul 30, 8:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Barrow, Clarke, Jackson, Madison, Oconee, Walton	28 min
Jul 30, 8:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Jasper, Morgan, Putnam	46 min
Jul 30, 8:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clayton, DeKalb, Henry, Newton, Rockdale, Walton	30 min
Jul 30, 8:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Carroll, Coweta, Haralson, Heard, Meriwether, Troup	26 min
Jul 30, 8:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Fulton, Henry, Spalding	32 min
Jul 30, 8:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clarke, Greene, Madison, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe	31 min
Jul 30, 9:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts, Jasper, Newton	35 min
Jul 30, 9:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Clayton, Coweta, Fayette, Henry, Lamar and 5 more	45 min
Jul 30, 9:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Greene, Hancock, Oglethorpe, Taliaferro, Wilkes	35 min
Jul 30, 9:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Henry, Jasper, Monroe	35 min
Jul 30, 9:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts, Henry, Jasper, Putnam	27 min
Jul 30, 9:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Coweta, Heard, Meriwether	35 min
Jul 30, 9:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb, Lamar, Monroe, Pike, Upson	37 min
Jul 30, 9:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin, Jones	36 min
Jul 30, 9:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Hancock, Taliaferro, Warren, Wilkes	34 min
Jul 30, 10:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Heard, Meriwether, Talbot, Troup	46 min
Jul 30, 10:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin, Bibb, Crawford, Jones, Lamar, Monroe and 5 more	50 min
Jul 30, 10:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Glascock, Hancock, Jefferson, Warren, Washington	48 min
Jul 30, 10:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Chattahoochee, Harris, Marion, Muscogee, Schley, Talbot and 1 more	38 min
Jul 30, 10:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bleckley, Crawford, Houston, Johnson, Macon, Peach and 3 more	50 min
Jul 30, 11:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris, Marion, Schley, Talbot, Taylor	23 min
Jul 30, 11:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bleckley, Emanuel, Houston, Johnson, Laurens, Peach and 2 more	43 min
Jul 31, 12:10 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	FFC	Fayette, Spalding	6 hr
Jul 31, 1:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilcox	34 min
Jul 31, 1:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Laurens	36 min
Jul 31, 2:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Laurens	27 min
Jul 31, 2:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wheeler	37 min
Jul 31, 2:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Pulaski	36 min
Jul 31, 2:25 PM EDT	Heat Advisory	FFC	Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 83 more	31 hr
Jul 31, 2:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dooly	33 min
Jul 31, 2:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wheeler	32 min
Jul 31, 2:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fayette	31 min
Jul 31, 2:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin	26 min
Jul 31, 2:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Dodge, Wilcox	24 min
Jul 31, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crisp	29 min
Jul 31, 3:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Spalding	27 min
Jul 31, 3:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Telfair, Wheeler	27 min
Jul 31, 3:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilcox	32 min
Jul 31, 3:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Henry	29 min
Jul 31, 3:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bleckley	28 min
Jul 31, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Telfair	35 min
Jul 31, 3:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Henry	30 min
Jul 31, 3:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Henry, Spalding	40 min
Jul 31, 3:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bleckley	29 min
Jul 31, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Henry	31 min
Jul 31, 4:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkinson	25 min
Jul 31, 4:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Clayton	36 min
Jul 31, 4:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Butts, Jasper	24 min
Jul 31, 4:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Peach	34 min
Jul 31, 4:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Henry	31 min
Jul 31, 4:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jasper, Monroe	32 min
Jul 31, 4:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Meriwether	30 min
Jul 31, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crawford, Taylor	30 min
Jul 31, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Talbot, Taylor, Upson	20 min
Jul 31, 5:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Baldwin, Jones, Putnam	32 min
Jul 31, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Hancock, Jones, Putnam	38 min
Jul 31, 5:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb, Crawford, Macon, Peach, Taylor, Twiggs	31 min
Jul 31, 5:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jones	30 min
Jul 31, 5:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bibb, Twiggs	31 min
Jul 31, 6:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkinson	33 min
Jul 31, 6:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Hancock	36 min
Jul 31, 7:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Wilkes	36 min

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