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High Wind Warning 1, NWS Huntsville, AL

March 2, 202311 counties in Alabama; Franklin County, Lincoln County, Moore County, Tennessee

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this high wind warning at Mar 2, 2023, 12:45 PM CST for 11 counties in Alabama; Franklin County, Lincoln County, Moore County, Tennessee. It took effect at Mar 3, 2023, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 12 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 2, 2023, 12:45 PM CST (18:45 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 3, 2023, 6:00 AM CST
Expired: Mar 3, 2023, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 12 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 18:48 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, 6.8 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: 659 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -28 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 high wind warning 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 warning went out at Mar 2, 11:08 AM CST, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 2, 11:08 AM CST, 1 hour 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 2, 8:59 AM CST, 3 hours 46 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 1, 7:32 PM CST	Tornado Warning	HUN	Colbert, Lauderdale	28 min
Mar 1, 7:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	HUN	Colbert, Lauderdale	37 min
Mar 1, 7:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	HUN	Colbert, Franklin	32 min
Mar 1, 8:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Lauderdale, Lawrence	1 min
Mar 1, 8:27 PM CST	Tornado Warning	HUN	Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence	33 min
Mar 1, 8:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Lauderdale, Lawrence	32 min
Mar 1, 8:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Morgan	36 min
Mar 1, 9:27 PM CST	Tornado Warning	HUN	Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Morgan	48 min
Mar 1, 9:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Franklin	33 min
Mar 1, 9:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Limestone, Madison	29 min
Mar 1, 9:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	HUN	Franklin	33 min
Mar 1, 10:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence	49 min
Mar 1, 10:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	HUN	Jackson, Limestone, Madison	21 min
Mar 1, 10:31 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	HUN	Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence	5 hr
Mar 1, 10:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Jackson, Madison	29 min
Mar 1, 10:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Jackson, Madison	27 min
Mar 1, 10:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Madison	26 min
Mar 1, 10:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	HUN	Madison	14 min
Mar 1, 10:36 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	HUN	Lawrence, Limestone, Madison	5 hr
Mar 1, 10:58 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	HUN	Limestone, Madison	5 hr
Mar 1, 11:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Jackson	30 min
Mar 1, 11:17 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Cullman	43 min
Mar 1, 11:31 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Jackson	44 min
Mar 1, 11:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Cullman	19 min
Mar 1, 11:55 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Jackson	50 min
Mar 2, 12:03 AM CST	River Flood Warning	HUN	Jackson, Madison, Marshall	4 days
Mar 2, 12:04 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	HUN	Jackson, Madison	3 hr
Mar 2, 12:07 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Marshall	38 min
Mar 2, 12:11 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Cullman	34 min
Mar 2, 12:18 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Marshall	27 min
Mar 2, 2:00 AM CST	Wind Advisory	HUN	Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more	11 hr
Mar 2, 3:08 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	HUN	Jackson, Madison	6 hr
Mar 2, 3:33 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	HUN	Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence	5 hr
Mar 2, 3:36 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	HUN	Lawrence, Limestone, Madison	5 hr
Mar 2, 3:41 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	HUN	Limestone, Madison	5 hr
Mar 2, 4:02 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	HUN	Madison	5 hr
Mar 2, 6:30 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	HUN	Franklin, Lawrence	2 hr
Mar 2, 8:16 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	HUN	Colbert, Lauderdale	40 min
Mar 2, 8:48 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	HUN	Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence	3 hr
Mar 2, 8:51 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	HUN	Jackson, Limestone, Madison, Morgan	3 hr
Mar 2, 10:35 AM CST	River Flood Warning	HUN	Madison	27 hr
Mar 2, 11:08 AM CST	River Flood Warning	HUN	Lawrence	43 hr
Mar 1, 10:15 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin, Lincoln	45 min
Mar 1, 11:14 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin	46 min
Mar 2, 7:38 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	HUN	Franklin, Lincoln, Moore	77 min

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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.