Alert archive / Georgia / Wind Advisories in 2015
Wind Advisory 4, NWS Atlanta, GA
NWS Atlanta, GA issued this wind advisory at Jan 30, 2015, 4:01 AM EST for 15 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 30, 2015, 4:01 AM EST (09:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 30, 2015, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 14 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, Gordon 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), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:04 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 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 2086 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 331 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 447 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
966 WWUS72 KFFC 300901 NPWFFC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 401 AM EST FRI JAN 30 2015 ...STRONG WIND GUSTS EXPECTED IN THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF NORTH GEORGIA TODAY... GAZ001>009-011>016-301715- /O.NEW.KFFC.WI.Y.0004.150130T0901Z-150130T2300Z/ DADE-WALKER-CATOOSA-WHITFIELD-MURRAY-FANNIN-GILMER-UNION-TOWNS- CHATTOOGA-GORDON-PICKENS-DAWSON-LUMPKIN-WHITE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CALHOUN...DAHLONEGA...CLEVELAND 401 AM EST FRI JAN 30 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST THIS EVENING. * LOCATIONS...HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF NORTH GEORGIA...ABOVE 1500 FT. * WINDS...NORTH TO NORTHWEST AT 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH. * TIMING...THROUGH 6 PM THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. UNSECURED OUTDOOR ITEMS SUCH AS TRASH CANS AND LAWN FURNITURE MAY BE BLOWN AROUND. THESE WINDS COULD ALSO BRING DOWN TREES AND LARGE LIMBS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 20 MPH...OR GUSTS TO 35 MPH OR STRONGER ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT... ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
2 follow-up statements
106 WWUS72 KFFC 301630 NPWFFC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1130 AM EST FRI JAN 30 2015 GAZ001>009-011>016-302300- /O.CON.KFFC.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-150130T2300Z/ DADE-WALKER-CATOOSA-WHITFIELD-MURRAY-FANNIN-GILMER-UNION-TOWNS- CHATTOOGA-GORDON-PICKENS-DAWSON-LUMPKIN-WHITE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CALHOUN...DAHLONEGA...CLEVELAND 1130 AM EST FRI JAN 30 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EST THIS EVENING... * LOCATIONS...HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF NORTH GEORGIA...ABOVE 1500 FT. * WINDS...NORTH TO NORTHWEST AT 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH. * TIMING...THROUGH 6 PM THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. UNSECURED OUTDOOR ITEMS SUCH AS TRASH CANS AND LAWN FURNITURE MAY BE BLOWN AROUND. THESE WINDS COULD ALSO BRING DOWN TREES AND LARGE LIMBS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 20 MPH...OR GUSTS TO 35 MPH OR STRONGER ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT... ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
548 WWUS72 KFFC 302255 NPWFFC URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 555 PM EST FRI JAN 30 2015 GAZ001>009-011>016-310000- /O.EXP.KFFC.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-150130T2300Z/ DADE-WALKER-CATOOSA-WHITFIELD-MURRAY-FANNIN-GILMER-UNION-TOWNS- CHATTOOGA-GORDON-PICKENS-DAWSON-LUMPKIN-WHITE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CALHOUN...DAHLONEGA...CLEVELAND 555 PM EST FRI JAN 30 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM EST THIS EVENING... WINDS HAVE SUBSIDED ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA AND THE WIND ADVISORY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$
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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.