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Wind Advisory 6, NWS Huntsville, AL

March 5, 201311 counties in Alabama; Franklin County, Lincoln County, Moore County, Tennessee

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this wind advisory at Mar 5, 2013, 4:02 AM CST for 11 counties in Alabama; Franklin County, Lincoln County, Moore County, Tennessee. It took effect at Mar 5, 2013, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 5, 2013, 4:02 AM CST (10:02 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 5, 2013, 12:00 PM CST
Expired: Mar 5, 2013, 8:08 PM CST
In force: 8 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 10:05 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 00:00Z, 10.0 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: 2334 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 267 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 539 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 Mar 5, 3:57 AM CST, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 5, 3:57 AM CST, 5 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
Mar 5, 8:59 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin	31 min
Mar 5, 9:29 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lawrence	31 min
Mar 5, 9:55 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Madison	35 min
Mar 5, 10:05 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Limestone, Madison	25 min
Mar 5, 10:47 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin	28 min
Mar 5, 10:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lawrence	35 min
Mar 5, 11:02 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Madison	28 min
Mar 5, 11:16 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Jackson	29 min
Mar 5, 11:31 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Jackson	29 min
Mar 5, 11:43 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Madison	32 min
Mar 5, 11:52 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Madison	38 min
Mar 5, 12:03 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Limestone	27 min
Mar 5, 12:20 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Madison	40 min
Mar 5, 12:30 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Morgan	30 min
Mar 5, 12:49 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Jackson	26 min
Mar 5, 1:02 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Marshall	28 min
Mar 5, 1:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Madison, Marshall	25 min
Mar 5, 1:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson, Marshall	30 min

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.