Alert archive / Georgia / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 30, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this wind advisory at Dec 24, 2008, 9:46 AM EST for 12 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 24, 2008, 9:46 AM EST (14:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 24, 2008, 10:00 PM EST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Atlanta, GA
Counties Catoosa County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Murray County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, Walker County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:50 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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 522 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 481 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 486 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 241446 NPWFFC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 946 AM EST WED DEC 24 2008 GAZ001>009-014>016-242300- /O.NEW.KFFC.WI.Y.0030.081224T1446Z-081225T0000Z/ DADE-WALKER-CATOOSA-WHITFIELD-MURRAY-FANNIN-GILMER-UNION-TOWNS- DAWSON-LUMPKIN-WHITE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DAHLONEGA...CLEVELAND 946 AM EST WED DEC 24 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING. STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS ARE LIKELY IN AREAS ABOVE 1500 FEET TODAY IN FAR NORTH GEORGIA...MAINLY NORTH OF A LA FAYETTE TO CLEVELAND LINE. WINDS IN HIGHER ELEVATIONS MAY GUST TO NEAR 50 MPH. THE WINDS SHOULD SUBSIDE BY EARLY EVENING. 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. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS72 KFFC 242050 NPWFFC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 350 PM EST WED DEC 24 2008 GAZ001>009-014>016-250300- /O.EXT.KFFC.WI.Y.0030.000000T0000Z-081225T0300Z/ DADE-WALKER-CATOOSA-WHITFIELD-MURRAY-FANNIN-GILMER-UNION-TOWNS- DAWSON-LUMPKIN-WHITE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DAHLONEGA...CLEVELAND 350 PM EST WED DEC 24 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST THIS EVENING. STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS ARE LIKELY IN AREAS ABOVE 1500 FEET TODAY IN FAR NORTH GEORGIA...MAINLY NORTH OF A LA FAYETTE TO CLEVELAND LINE. WINDS IN HIGHER ELEVATIONS MAY GUST TO NEAR 50 MPH. THE WINDS SHOULD SUBSIDE BY 10PM. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 35 MPH OR WIND GUSTS OF AT LEAST 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
000 WWUS72 KFFC 250234 NPWFFC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 934 PM EST WED DEC 24 2008 GAZ001>009-014>016-250345- /O.EXP.KFFC.WI.Y.0030.000000T0000Z-081225T0300Z/ DADE-WALKER-CATOOSA-WHITFIELD-MURRAY-FANNIN-GILMER-UNION-TOWNS- DAWSON-LUMPKIN-WHITE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...DAHLONEGA...CLEVELAND 934 PM EST WED DEC 24 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 10 PM EST THIS EVENING... THE WIND ADVISORY FOR FAR NORTH GEORGIA WILL EXPIRE AT 10 PM EST THIS EVENING. $$
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.