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Wind Advisory 15, NWS Huntsville, AL

December 10, 200811 counties in Alabama; Franklin County, Lincoln County, Moore County, Tennessee

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this wind advisory at Dec 10, 2008, 4:07 PM CST for 11 counties in Alabama; Franklin County, Lincoln County, Moore County, Tennessee. It took effect at Dec 11, 2008, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 10, 2008, 4:07 PM CST (22:07 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 11, 2008, 6:00 AM CST
Expired: Dec 11, 2008, 1:57 AM CST
In force
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 22:07 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 448 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 78 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Dec 10, 11:42 AM CST, 4 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 10, 11:42 AM CST, 4 hours 25 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 10, 1:00 PM CST, 3 hours 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Dec 10, 10:14 AM CST, 5 hours 53 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Huntsville, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 9, 8:44 PM CST	Flash Flood Watch	HUN	Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more	12 hr
Dec 9, 9:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Franklin	37 min
Dec 9, 9:29 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	HUN	Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale	6 hr
Dec 9, 9:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Franklin	47 min
Dec 9, 10:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Lawrence	44 min
Dec 9, 10:34 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	HUN	Colbert, Cullman, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone and 3 more	9 hr
Dec 10, 12:08 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Cullman	52 min
Dec 10, 12:22 AM CST	Tornado Warning	HUN	Cullman	23 min
Dec 10, 12:43 AM CST	Tornado Warning	HUN	Cullman	32 min
Dec 10, 1:06 AM CST	Tornado Warning	HUN	Jackson	24 min
Dec 10, 1:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Jackson, Marshall	33 min
Dec 10, 1:14 AM CST	Tornado Warning	HUN	Cullman	31 min
Dec 10, 1:25 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson	20 min
Dec 10, 1:44 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson, Marshall	3 hr
Dec 10, 2:07 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Marshall	23 min
Dec 10, 2:40 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Cullman	20 min
Dec 10, 3:18 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	HUN	Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale	6 hr
Dec 10, 5:20 AM CST	River Flood Warning	HUN	Madison	58 hr
Dec 10, 5:29 AM CST	River Flood Warning	HUN	Lawrence	3 days
Dec 10, 2:08 PM CST	River Flood Warning	HUN	Madison	16 hr
Dec 10, 4:05 PM CST	Flood Watch	HUN	Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more	23 hr
Dec 9, 11:30 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	HUN	Franklin, Lincoln, Moore	6 hr
Dec 10, 5:15 AM CST	River Flood Warning	HUN	Franklin, Lincoln	14 hr
Dec 10, 5:38 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	HUN	Franklin, Lincoln, Moore	3 hr

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.