Alert archive / Georgia / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 26, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this wind advisory at Nov 24, 2008, 3:32 PM EST for 14 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 24, 2008, 3:32 PM EST (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 2008, 8:33 PM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Murray County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, Walker County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 1434 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 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 242032 NPWFFC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 332 PM EST MON NOV 24 2008 GAZ001>009-011-013>016-250445- /O.NEW.KFFC.WI.Y.0026.081124T2032Z-081125T0500Z/ DADE-WALKER-CATOOSA-WHITFIELD-MURRAY-FANNIN-GILMER-UNION-TOWNS- CHATTOOGA-PICKENS-DAWSON-LUMPKIN-WHITE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DAHLONEGA...CLEVELAND 332 PM EST MON NOV 24 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST TONIGHT GENERALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM SUMMERVILLE TO ELLIJAY TO CLEVELAND. STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT. THESE STRONG WINDS WILL MOSTLY BE CONFINED TO THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE NORTH GEORGIA MOUNTAINS. 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. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS72 KFFC 250133 NPWFFC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 833 PM EST MON NOV 24 2008 GAZ001>009-011-013>016-250245- /O.CAN.KFFC.WI.Y.0026.000000T0000Z-081125T0500Z/ DADE-WALKER-CATOOSA-WHITFIELD-MURRAY-FANNIN-GILMER-UNION-TOWNS- CHATTOOGA-PICKENS-DAWSON-LUMPKIN-WHITE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DAHLONEGA...CLEVELAND 833 PM EST MON NOV 24 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED FOR EXTREME NORTH GEORGIA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WITH THE PASSAGE OF A BAND OF RAIN...WINDS HAVE DIED DOWN TO BELOW 25 MPH ACROSS THE ADVISORY AREA...WHICH HAS PROMPTED THE CANCELLATION OF THE WIND ADVISORY. $$
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.