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Flash Flood Warnings in Cullman County, Alabama, 2010

14 flash flood warnings in 2010. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of flash flood warnings reaches back to 1986.

Cullman County and its neighbors

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Flash Flood Warnings
14
Busiest month
August4 flash flood warnings
Busiest day
July 26, 20102 flash flood warnings

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

7 of 14 flash flood warnings covering Cullman County in 2010 had a flash flood report inside them; 11 of 12 flash flood reports fell inside a warning, on average 86 minutes after it went out.

Cullman County, 2010

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Flash flood warnings14750%1292%86 min

Each office's whole area, 2010

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Huntsville, AL: flash flood warnings592853%7587%95 min

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 24, 7:23 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningHUN4 hr
Apr 24, 8:36 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHUN4 hr
May 2, 9:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHUN5 hr
May 24, 7:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHUN93 min
Jun 2, 8:02 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHUN118 min
Jun 19, 11:19 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHUN116 min
Jul 16, 3:35 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHUN81 min
Jul 25, 9:42 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHUN2 hr
Jul 26, 5:09 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHUN62 min
Aug 1, 4:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHUN115 min
Aug 6, 4:22 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHUN54 min
Aug 21, 11:42 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHUN83 min
Aug 27, 7:03 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHUN74 min
Nov 30, 5:37 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningHUN2 hr

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

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Sources

National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.