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Special Weather Statement, NWS Atlanta, GA

June 18, 2026Putnam County, Georgia

NWS Atlanta, GA issued this special weather statement at Jun 18, 2026, 1:37 PM EDT for Putnam County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 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 18, 2026, 1:37 PM EDT (17:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Atlanta, GA
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 40

County Putnam County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:40 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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 98 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: 1070 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 587 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 118 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 Jun 18, 7:26 AM EDT, 6 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 7:26 AM EDT, 6 hours 11 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 17, 7:57 PM EDT, 17 hours 40 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 1:37 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
Jun 18, 4:57 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	FFC	Baldwin, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Carroll and 66 more	21 hr
Jun 18, 1:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jefferson	37 min
Jun 18, 2:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Glascock, Warren	25 min
Jun 18, 2:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Rockdale	38 min
Jun 18, 2:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Crisp, Dooly, Sumter	48 min
Jun 18, 3:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Gordon, Whitfield	26 min
Jun 18, 3:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Bleckley, Dodge, Houston, Pulaski, Twiggs, Wilcox	52 min
Jun 18, 3:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Jones, Monroe	31 min
Jun 18, 3:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Bleckley, Houston, Jones, Peach, Pulaski and 1 more	43 min
Jun 18, 3:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris, Muscogee	25 min
Jun 18, 3:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Morgan, Newton	33 min
Jun 18, 3:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bleckley, Dodge, Pulaski, Wilcox	32 min
Jun 18, 3:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Jasper, Jones, Monroe	23 min
Jun 18, 3:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Fannin, Murray, Whitfield	48 min
Jun 18, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris, Meriwether, Talbot	32 min
Jun 18, 3:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Dodge, Hancock, Johnson and 5 more	42 min
Jun 18, 3:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta, Lamar, Meriwether, Pike, Spalding, Talbot and 3 more	39 min
Jun 18, 3:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Greene, Hancock, Jasper, Jones, Morgan and 3 more	51 min
Jun 18, 4:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Clayton, Coweta, Crawford, Fayette, Fulton and 7 more	42 min
Jun 18, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clarke, Greene, Hancock, Madison, Oconee, Oglethorpe and 4 more	66 min
Jun 18, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Emanuel, Glascock, Hancock, Jefferson, Johnson and 5 more	46 min
Jun 18, 4:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett and 9 more	43 min
Jun 18, 5:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Glascock, Jefferson, Warren	35 min
Jun 18, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Banks, Barrow, Clarke, Dawson, Forsyth, Fulton and 8 more	65 min
Jun 18, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clarke, Greene, Hancock, Jasper, Madison, Morgan and 7 more	62 min
Jun 18, 6:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	FFC	Harris, Muscogee	42 min
Jun 18, 6:28 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Harris, Muscogee, Talbot	32 min
Jun 18, 6:31 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Harris, Meriwether, Talbot, Upson	29 min
Jun 18, 6:53 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Marion, Talbot, Taylor	37 min
Jun 18, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattahoochee, Marion, Schley, Stewart, Sumter, Taylor and 1 more	46 min
Jun 18, 7:16 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Crawford, Talbot, Taylor, Upson	29 min
Jun 18, 7:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crawford, Macon, Peach, Schley, Sumter, Taylor	49 min
Jun 18, 7:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Bibb, Crawford, Monroe, Upson	34 min
Jun 18, 7:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Crawford, Dooly, Houston, Macon, Peach and 1 more	48 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.