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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Huntsville, AL

January 12, 202311 counties in Alabama; Franklin County, Lincoln County, Moore County, Tennessee

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this wind advisory at Jan 12, 2023, 2:26 AM CST for 11 counties in Alabama; Franklin County, Lincoln County, Moore County, Tennessee. It took effect at Jan 12, 2023, 7:00 AM CST. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 12, 2023, 2:26 AM CST (08:26 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 12, 2023, 7:00 AM CST
Expired: Jan 12, 2023, 9:00 PM CST
In force: 14 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 08:30 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 00:00Z, 8.4 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: 840 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 166 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 202 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 Jan 11, 10:43 PM CST, 3 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 11, 10:43 PM CST, 3 hours 43 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
Jan 12, 7:11 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Colbert, Lauderdale	49 min
Jan 12, 7:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Lauderdale	31 min
Jan 12, 7:44 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence	31 min
Jan 12, 7:48 AM CST	Tornado Warning	HUN	Franklin, Lawrence	27 min
Jan 12, 8:12 AM CST	Tornado Warning	HUN	Lawrence, Limestone, Morgan	33 min
Jan 12, 8:27 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Cullman, Lawrence, Morgan	33 min
Jan 12, 8:35 AM CST	Tornado Warning	HUN	Limestone, Madison, Morgan	25 min
Jan 12, 8:54 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Limestone, Madison, Marshall, Morgan	36 min
Jan 12, 8:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Limestone, Madison	22 min
Jan 12, 9:18 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Jackson, Madison	27 min
Jan 12, 9:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Cullman	25 min
Jan 12, 9:42 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Jackson	33 min
Jan 12, 9:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Cullman, Marshall	16 min
Jan 12, 9:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson	34 min
Jan 12, 10:00 AM CST	Tornado Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson	30 min
Jan 12, 10:18 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Marshall	27 min
Jan 12, 12:53 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lawrence	37 min
Jan 12, 1:00 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lauderdale	30 min
Jan 12, 1:24 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Limestone	36 min
Jan 12, 1:47 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Limestone, Madison	43 min
Jan 12, 2:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Madison	28 min
Jan 12, 2:41 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Jackson, Madison	49 min
Jan 12, 3:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Jackson	30 min
Jan 12, 3:28 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Jackson	47 min
Jan 12, 3:33 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Marshall	42 min
Jan 12, 3:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson	32 min
Jan 12, 4:13 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	DeKalb	32 min
Jan 12, 1:28 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Moore	62 min
Jan 12, 2:00 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lincoln	45 min
Jan 12, 2:09 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin, Lincoln, Moore	36 min
Jan 12, 2:23 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	HUN	Franklin	13 hr
Jan 12, 2:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Franklin, Lincoln, Moore	31 min
Jan 12, 2:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Franklin, Lincoln, Moore	31 min
Jan 12, 3:03 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin	12 min
Jan 12, 3:38 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lincoln	52 min
Jan 12, 4:15 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin	30 min
Jan 12, 4:17 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lincoln	28 min
Jan 12, 4:46 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin, Lincoln, Moore	29 min
Jan 12, 4:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Franklin, Lincoln, Moore	25 min
Jan 12, 5:17 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin	28 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.