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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this high wind watch at Nov 27, 2016, 2:48 PM CST for 4 counties in Alabama; Franklin County, Lincoln County, Moore County, Tennessee. It took effect at Nov 28, 2016, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 27, 2016, 2:48 PM CST (20:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 28, 2016, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Nov 28, 2016, 4:07 AM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
Counties DeKalb County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Franklin County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Moore County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 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 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 2299 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Nov 27, 11:58 AM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 27, 11:58 AM CST, 2 hours 50 minutes before
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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.