Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 21, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 16, 2004, 2:44 PM CDT for DeKalb County, Alabama. It was in force for 21 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 16, 2004, 2:44 PM CDT (19:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2004, 3:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County DeKalb County, AL
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:44 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 9:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 417 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 277 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 424 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KHUN 161944 TORHUN ALC049-162005- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 244 PM CDT THU SEP 16 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN DEKALB COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ALABAMA * UNTIL 305 PM CDT * AT 243 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT PAYNE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 50 MPH. * LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... FORT PAYNE. POWELL. THIS STORM SHOWS STRONG ROTATION...AND MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. DO NOT WAIT...GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW PUT AS MANY WALLS AS POSSIBLE BETWEEN YOU AND THE STORM. LAT...LON 3432 8574 3445 8555 3471 8571 3452 8595 $$ JDG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Huntsville, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 12:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Cullman | 9 hr |
| Sep 16, 1:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Marshall | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 1:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | DeKalb | 19 min |
| Sep 16, 2:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | DeKalb | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 2:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Jackson | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 3:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Madison | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 4:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Lawrence, Limestone, Morgan | 6 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale | 5 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Alabama, 2004Every tornado warning in 2004Tornadoes in 2004
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.