A weak trough was located across the eastern portion of the state as the remnants of tropical storm Fay had moved into the mid-Atlantic region. S.
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A weak trough was located across the eastern portion of the state as the remnants of tropical storm Fay had moved into the mid-Atlantic region. High pressure aloft was centered over Texas and just off the southeast U.S. coast, leaving a weak upper-level low pressure trough over the southeast U.S. Scattered thunderstorms developed during the afternoon in the southeast parts of central Georgia and drifted northwest along the western side of the Atlantic upper ridge. The storms dumped heavy rain in localized areas and one storm in Dodge county briefly became severe and produced penny-sized hail.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Aug 30, 2:32 PM EST, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 332 PM EDT SAT AUG 30 2008 .SHORT TERM /TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT/... UPPER RIDGE IN PLACE OVER THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY AND ANOTHER OVER THE WESTERN ATLANTIC...AND UPPER TROUGH BUILDING IN OVER EASTERN CANADA. OF COURSE...THE BIG PLAYER IN THE SHORT TERM IS GUSTAV. UPPER HIGHS ARE CURRENTLY STEERING BOTH GUSTAV AND HANNA...AND AS THE TROUGH PUSHES EAST...A SURFACE HIGH WILL BUILD DOWN THE EASTERN SEABOARD. THE ENTIRE WAVE WILL AMPLIFY TONIGHT INTO TOMORROW AS GUSTAV PUSHES INTO THE GULF. AS THE RIDGE PUSHES DOWN THE EASTERN SEABOARD...LOOKS LIKE A WEAK HYBRID CAD SETUP...WE MAY GET SOME INFLUENCE FROM GUSTAV AS MOISTURE MOVES NORTH AND INTERACTS WITH THE WEDGE FRONT. HIGHS ON SUNDAY AND ESPECIALLY MONDAY WILL COOLER THAN THOSE LATELY. POPS INCREASE FROM THE SOUTH...BUT THIS IS VERY UNCERTAIN BASED ON HOW MUCH GUSTAV WILL INFLUENCE US. HAVE KEPT IT IN THE CHANCE TO SLIGHT CHANCE RANGE...AND ON MONDAY IN SOUTHWEST ZONES HAVE MADE SHOWERS THE DOMINANT WEATHER TYPE. MAINLY WEAK INSTABILITY DUE TO INCREASING CLOUD COVER...GENERALLY UNDER 1000 J/KG CAPES PROGGED...BUT SHEAR AND HELICITY BEGIN TO INCREASE LATE SUNDAY ESPECIALLY IN SOUTHWEST ZONES. CERTAINLY NOTHING TO WRITE HOME ABOUT ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING ITS A TROPICAL SYSTEM...BUT GFS HAS BETWEEN 100-150 M2/S2 HELICITY. IF THE STORM MOVES FURTHER EAST THIS WOULD OBVIOUSLY INCREASE...WE WILL HAVE TO KEEP AN EYE ON THIS. AGAIN...AM NOT CONFIDENT ON THE POPS SITUATION IN GENERAL BUT THIS AT LEAST STARTS TRENDING TOWARD THE MORE TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT. .LONG TERM /TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY/... TO SAY CONFIDENCE IS LOW IN THE EXTENDED IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT. GFS OPERATIONAL HAS BEEN AN OUTLIER WITH HANDLING THE TROPICAL SYSTEMS AND HANNA IS NO EXCEPTION. GFS TAKES IT INTO THE CAROLINAS...DGEX INTO SOUTHEAST GEORGIA...ECMWF ACROSS FLORIDA...AND THE UKMET INTO CUBA...ALL BY FRIDAY NIGHT. OF COURSE THE TRACK WILL HAVE IMPLICATIONS ON OUR FORECAST. IN THE MEANTIME...BY MIDWEEK... REMNANTS OF GUSTAV SHOULD BE IMPACTING AREAS WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI...WITH THE SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE REMAINING OVER THE EAST COAST THROUGH MID-WEEK. WE MAY HAVE SOME MOISTURE LINGERING IN THE AREA THROUGH THEN...BUT THE HIGH WILL DOMINATE. AFTER ABOUT MID-WEEK...THE HIGH GETS SQUEEZED AND REDUCES IN SIZE...AND THIS IS WHERE THINGS GET CONFUSING. NO CHANGES MADE TO THE EXTENDED BASED ON VERY LOW CONFIDENCE...AND OF COURSE WILL DEFER TO THE NHC FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE TROPICAL SYSTEMS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... ATHENS 71 90 69 87 69 / 20 20 20 30 20 ATLANTA 73 87 72 87 71 / 20 20 20 30 20 BLAIRSVILLE 66 86 66 82 64 / 20 10 20 20 20 CARTERSVILLE 66 91 69 87 69 / 20 10 20 20 20 COLUMBUS 73 90 74 88 73 / 20 20 20 40 30 GAINESVILLE 70 87 70 85 68 / 20 20 20 20 20 MACON 73 89 73 89 71 / 20 30 20 30 30 ROME 69 91 71 88 71 / 10 10 20 20 20 PEACHTREE CITY 68 90 69 86 67 / 20 20 20 30 20 VIDALIA 74 90 73 89 71 / 20 40 20 30 20 && .FFC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && TDP
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 607 AM EDT SAT AUG 30 2008 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>039-041>062-066>076-078>086- 089>098-102>113-311015- BALDWIN-BANKS-BARROW-BARTOW-BIBB-BLECKLEY-BUTTS-CARROLL-CATOOSA- CHATTAHOOCHEE-CHATTOOGA-CHEROKEE-CLARKE-CLAYTON-COBB-COWETA- CRAWFORD-CRISP-DADE-DAWSON-DEKALB-DODGE-DOOLY-DOUGLAS-EMANUEL- FANNIN-FAYETTE-FLOYD-FORSYTH-GILMER-GLASCOCK-GORDON-GREENE- GWINNETT-HALL-HANCOCK-HARALSON-HARRIS-HEARD-HENRY-HOUSTON-JACKSON- JASPER-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-JONES-LAMAR-LAURENS-LUMPKIN-MACON- MADISON-MARION-MERIWETHER-MONROE-MONTGOMERY-MORGAN-MURRAY- MUSCOGEE-NEWTON-NORTH FULTON-OCONEE-OGLETHORPE-PAULDING-PEACH- PICKENS-PIKE-POLK-PULASKI-PUTNAM-ROCKDALE-SCHLEY-SOUTH FULTON- SPALDING-STEWART-SUMTER-TALBOT-TALIAFERRO-TAYLOR-TELFAIR-TOOMBS- TOWNS-TREUTLEN-TROUP-TWIGGS-UNION-UPSON-WALKER-WALTON-WARREN- WASHINGTON-WEBSTER-WHEELER-WHITE-WHITFIELD-WILCOX-WILKES- WILKINSON- 607 AM EDT SAT AUG 30 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA. .SYNOPSIS... A WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARY CONTINUES OVER CENTRAL GEORGIA AS MOIST EASTERLY FLOW BEGINS TO DEVELOP OVER THE REGION TODAY. .PRIMARY HAZARDS... THE PRIMARY HAZARD FROM ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL BE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. THE BEST CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SOUTH OF A COLUMBUS TO MACON TO AUGUSTA LINE GENERALLY BETWEEN 2 PM AND 10 PM. .DISCUSSION... MOIST EASTERLY FLOW IS BEGINNING TO SET UP ACROSS THE STATE TODAY AS A HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE TO THE NORTH SINKS SOUTH. THE OLD SURFACE BOUNDARY ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA IS STILL STATIONARY AND SHOULD ACT AS A CATALYST FOR DEVELOPING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. WITH INCREASED MOISTURE OVER THE ENTIRE AREA AN ISOLATED SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM CAN DEVELOP ANYWHERE BUT THE HIGHER DEWPOINTS AND BEST INSTABILITY (CAPES EXPECTED NEAR 1500 AND LIS IN THE -2 TO -4 RANGE) WILL BE ACROSS EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. ANY STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP ARE NOT EXPECTED TO REACH SEVERE LIMITS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE WILL BE A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT.
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 49 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:06 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
The public observed penny-sized hail between Gresston and Plainfield.
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