Alert archive / Georgia / Wind Advisories in 2007
Wind Advisory 7, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this wind advisory at Feb 24, 2007, 8:44 PM EST for 34 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2007, 8:44 PM EST (01:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2007, 7:00 AM EST
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
All 34 counties
Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Hall County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Madison County, GA, Murray County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Polk County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, Walker County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 106 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2353 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 599 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS72 KFFC 250144 NPWFFC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 844 PM EST SAT FEB 24 2007 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>036-041>045-250945- /O.NEW.KFFC.WI.Y.0007.070225T0144Z-070225T1200Z/ DADE-WALKER-CATOOSA-WHITFIELD-MURRAY-FANNIN-GILMER-UNION-TOWNS- CHATTOOGA-GORDON-PICKENS-DAWSON-LUMPKIN-WHITE-FLOYD-BARTOW- CHEROKEE-FORSYTH-HALL-BANKS-JACKSON-MADISON-POLK-PAULDING-COBB- NORTH FULTON-GWINNETT-BARROW-CLARKE-HARALSON-CARROLL-DOUGLAS- SOUTH FULTON-DEKALB- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CALHOUN...DAHLONEGA...CLEVELAND... ROME...CARTERSVILLE...GAINESVILLE...MARIETTA...ATLANTA... LAWRENCEVILLE...ATHENS...CARROLLTON...DOUGLASVILLE...EAST POINT... DECATUR 844 PM EST SAT FEB 24 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST SUNDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST SUNDAY. THE WIND ADVISORY IS FOR THE AREA ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM ATLANTA TO ATHENS WHERE SUSTAINED WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE. STRONG SOUTHERLY FLOW AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT... ALONG WITH A TIGHTENING PRESSURE GRADIENT...WILL RESULT IN STRONG AND GUSTY CONDITIONS ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT. STRONG WIND GUSTS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF NORTH GEORGIA...ESPECIALLY IN THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 35 MPH OR WIND GUSTS OF AT LEAST 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS72 KFFC 250936 NPWFFC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 436 AM EST SUN FEB 25 2007 GAZ001>009-011>016-019>025-027-030>036-041>045-251200- /O.CON.KFFC.WI.Y.0007.000000T0000Z-070225T1200Z/ DADE-WALKER-CATOOSA-WHITFIELD-MURRAY-FANNIN-GILMER-UNION-TOWNS- CHATTOOGA-GORDON-PICKENS-DAWSON-LUMPKIN-WHITE-FLOYD-BARTOW- CHEROKEE-FORSYTH-HALL-BANKS-JACKSON-MADISON-POLK-PAULDING-COBB- NORTH FULTON-GWINNETT-BARROW-CLARKE-HARALSON-CARROLL-DOUGLAS- SOUTH FULTON-DEKALB- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CALHOUN...DAHLONEGA...CLEVELAND... ROME...CARTERSVILLE...GAINESVILLE...MARIETTA...ATLANTA... LAWRENCEVILLE...ATHENS...CARROLLTON...DOUGLASVILLE...EAST POINT... DECATUR 436 AM EST SUN FEB 25 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST THIS MORNING... THE WINDS ADVISORY FOR NORTH GEORGIA WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. THE WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE MORNING...BECOMING 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO ABOUT 20 MPH. $$
Nearby
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.