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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this wind advisory at Feb 27, 2024, 2:21 AM CST for 11 counties in Alabama; Franklin County, Lincoln County, Moore County, Tennessee. It took effect at Feb 27, 2024, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 27, 2024, 2:21 AM CST (08:21 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 27, 2024, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 28, 2024, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 24 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 08:24 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1441 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Feb 26, 11:05 PM CST, 3 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 26, 11:05 PM CST, 3 hours 16 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Huntsville, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 6:09 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Moore | 51 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.