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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this flash flood warning at Feb 14, 2003, 5:49 PM CST for Lauderdale County, Alabama. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 14, 2003, 5:49 PM CST (23:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 15, 2003, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lauderdale County, AL
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this flash flood warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 532 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KHUN 142352 FFWHUN ALC077-150600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 549 PM CST FRI FEB 14 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LAUDERDALE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL MIDNIGHT * AT 549 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING OVER THE ENTIRE COUNTY OF LAUDERDALE. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... FLORENCE...KILLEN...LEXINGTON AND UNDERWOOD-PETERSVILLE EMERGENCY MANAGERS IN LAUDERDALE COUNTY REPORTED MANY ROADS CLOSED ACROSS THE COUNTY. MORE HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TONIGHT WHICH WILL CONTINUE THE FLOODING ACROSS LAUDERDALE COUNTY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3499 8814 3480 8782 3483 8725 3500 8724 $$ SS
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Feb 14, 1:34 PM CST, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 14, 1:34 PM CST, 4 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 130 PM FRI FEB 14 2003 THE MAIN ISSUE FOR THIS FORECAST CYCLE IS FLOOD POTENTIAL FOR NORTHERN AL SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...WITH SECONDARY CONCERNS FOR ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WE RECENTLY ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WATCH THAT WILL BE VALID FROM 12Z SATURDAY UNTIL 12Z SUNDAY. THE HEAVIEST RAIN IS EXPECTED LATE SATURDAY AND OVERNIGHT AS THE MOST DYNAMIC BAND OF RAIN MOVES EAST ACROSS THE STATE. RAINFALL ON THE ORDER OF 1 TO 2 INCHES COULD FALL DURING THAT PERIOD. THE STORM TOTAL PRECIP... INCLUDING WHAT FELL AS OF 12Z FRIDAY MORNING...AND WHAT WILL FALL THROUGH 12Z SUNDAY...WILL BE 2 TO 4 INCHES. WE HAVE INCREASED THE HIGH TEMPERATURES TO 65 TO 70 FOR SATURDAY BASED ON THE STRONG WARM AIR ADVECTION EVIDENT ALREADY FROM SOUTHERN MS WESTWARD. FOR SUNDAY...CLOUDS AND PRECIP WILL BE REINTRODUCED FOR MOST OF THE DAY. BENIGN WEATHER IS EXPECTED MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...WITH SEASONABLE TEMPERATURES AND ANOTHER RAIN CHANCE FRIDAY. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... HSV 55/66 49/53 37 89+73 MSL 58/70 47/52 35 99+62 .HUN...FLOOD WATCH FOR NORTHERN ALABAMA SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT. SCHAUB
Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 14, 1:15 PM CST, 4 hours 34 minutes before
ALZ001>010-016-151100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 115 PM CST FRI FEB 14 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA. .DAY ONE...(TONIGHT)... PERIODS OF RAIN WILL CONTINUE ACROSS ALL OF NORTH ALABAMA TONIGHT... WITH SOME OF THE RAINFALL LOCALLY HEAVY. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVERNIGHT WILL RANGE FROM AROUND ONE QUARTER OF AN INCH OVER CULLMAN COUNTY...UPWARDS TO ONE INCH ALONG THE TENNESSEE/ALABAMA. THIS RAINFALL...ESPECIALLY THAT WHICH FALLS OVER SOUTHERN TENNESSEE...WILL CAUSE RISES IN SOME NORTHERN ALABAMA STREAMS...PARTICULARLY THE PAINT ROCK CREEK EAST OF HUNTSVILLE. RIVER FLOODING IS NOT EXPECTED TONIGHT. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP SHOULD NOT BECOME SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...(SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY)... A DEVELOPING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SYSTEM WILL APPROACH NORTHERN ALABAMA DURING SATURDAY. AN ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA SATURDAY EVENING. RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE TOMORROW...WITH SOME FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS POSSIBLE. ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS OF RAINFALL WILL BRING TOTALS RANGING FROM AROUND TWO INCHES OVER CULLMAN COUNTY...TO FOUR INCHES ALONG THE ALABAMA/TENNESSEE BORDER. IN ADDITION TO THE RAINS...THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS POSSIBLE. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE DURING SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT AT THIS TIME INCLUDES HIGH WIND GUSTS AND HAIL...ALONG WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS. A DRYING TREND AND A CONTINUATION OF SEASONABLE WEATHER WILL RETURN FOR MUCH OF NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT...BUT MAY BE NEEDED TOMORROW. BOYD
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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.