Alert archive / Alabama / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 1, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this wind advisory at Jan 1, 2008, 3:31 AM CST for 11 counties in Alabama; Franklin County, Lincoln County, Moore County, Tennessee. It took effect at Jan 1, 2008, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 1, 2008, 3:31 AM CST (09:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 1, 2008, 6:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 1, 2008, 3:01 PM CST
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
Counties Colbert County, AL, Cullman County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Franklin County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Moore County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:36 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 2306 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 104 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 438 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 412 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Huntsville, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind advisory went out at Jan 1, 2:36 AM CST, 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 1, 2:36 AM CST, 55 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 31, 9:00 PM CST, 6 hours 31 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 900 PM CST MON DEC 31 2007 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-011130- LAUDERDALE-COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-MADISON-MORGAN- MARSHALL-JACKSON-DE KALB-CULLMAN-MOORE-LINCOLN-FRANKLIN TN- 900 PM CST MON DEC 31 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...THROUGH TONIGHT... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... A STRONG ARCTIC COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST ON TUESDAY...USHERING IN THE COLDEST AIR OF THE SEASON SO FAR. BLUSTERY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED FOR NEW YEARS DAY...WITH SUSTAINED WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH AND GUSTS OVER 30 MPH POSSIBLE. SCATTERED FLURRIES ARE ALSO EXPECTED....MAINLY TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. IN THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU...SOME SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS CANNOT BE RULED OUT AND COULD PRODUCE A QUICK DUSTING OF SNOW ACROSS THOSE AREAS. WITH LOW TEMPERATURES TUESDAY NIGHT DROPPING INTO THE TEENS...AND A CONTINUED NORTHWEST FLOW...WIND CHILL VALUES WILL BE REDUCED FROM ZERO TO 5 ABOVE EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. WEDNESDAY WILL BE THE COLDEST DAY OF THE WEEK WITH HIGHS IN THE LOWER 30S FOR MOST LOCATIONS...AND LOWS AGAIN AROUND 15 WEDNESDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. RSB
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Dec 31, 11:55 PM CST, 3 hours 36 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 1155 PM CST MON DEC 31 2007 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-011100- LAUDERDALE-COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-MADISON-MORGAN- MARSHALL-JACKSON-DE KALB-CULLMAN-MOORE-LINCOLN-FRANKLIN TN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FLORENCE...MUSCLE SHOALS... RUSSELLVILLE...MOULTON...ATHENS...HUNTSVILLE...DECATUR... GUNTERSVILLE...SCOTTSBORO...FORT PAYNE...CULLMAN...LYNCHBURG... FAYETTEVILLE...WINCHESTER 1155 PM CST MON DEC 31 2007 ...2008 TO BEGIN ON A FRIGID NOTE... AS THE NEW YEAR BEGINS...THE COLDEST AIR OF THE WINTER SO FAR IS ON THE WAY...IN THE WAKE OF A STRONG COLD FRONT PASSAGE ACROSS THE TENNESSEE VALLEY DURING NEW YEARS EVE. BEHIND THE FRONT...STRONG AND COLD HIGH PRESSURE...ALONG WITH BREEZY NORTH WINDS WILL COMBINE TO BRING VERY COLD AIR ACROSS THE DEEP SOUTH. THE CHILLY AIR WILL BEGIN TO BE FELT DURING THE DAY ON TUESDAY...AS HIGH TEMPERATURES ONLY REACH THE LOWER 40S. NORTHWESTERLY WINDS AT 15 TO 25 MPH WILL MAKE IT FEEL LIKE ONLY AROUND 30 DEGREES ALL DAY LONG...COMPARED TO TEMPERATURES ON MONDAY THAT APPROACHED 60 DEGREES. THE FULL IMPACT OF THE COLD AIR WILL BE FELT TUESDAY NIGHT AS LOWS DROP INTO THE TEENS. WINDS WILL REMAIN BETWEEN 10 AND 20 MPH... CREATING WIND CHILLS AROUND 5 ABOVE ZERO AFTER MIDNIGHT. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT WIND CHILLS COULD BE AROUND ZERO IN SPOTS. THERE WILL BE LITTLE PRECIPITATION WITH THIS SYSTEM...BUT SOME SNOW FLURRIES ARE POSSIBLE TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. THERE MIGHT EVEN BE SCATTERED LIGHT SNOW SHOWERS AT TIMES...ESPECIALLY ON THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU...WHERE A QUICK DUSTING OF SNOW IS NOT COMPLETELY OUT OF THE QUESTION. DURING THE DAY WEDNESDAY...TEMPERATURES WILL NOT REBOUND MUCH...AND COULD STAY BELOW FREEZING. THIS WOULD LEAD TO MORE THAN 36 CONSECUTIVE HOURS OF BELOW FREEZING TEMPERATURES. WIND CHILLS WILL STAY IN THE LOW TO MID 20S ALL DAY. LOWS WILL AGAIN DROP TO AROUND 15 DEGREES WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THEN A GRADUAL WARMING TREND WILL BEGIN ON THURSDAY...WITH TEMPERATURES RETURNING TO NORMAL BY FRIDAY. TAKE PRECAUTIONS NOW TO PREPARE FOR THE VERY COLD CONDITIONS. PROTECT OUTDOOR PIPES...PLANTS...AND PETS PRIOR TO THE ARRIVAL OF THE COLD TEMPERATURES. STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE. RSB
Nearby
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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.