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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Huntsville, AL

June 6, 2005DeKalb County, Alabama

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 6, 2005, 2:49 PM CDT for DeKalb County, Alabama. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 2005, 2:49 PM CDT (19:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 2005, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
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), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2005-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1611 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2005-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1611 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
937 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
8 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 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 Jun 6, 1:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 1:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 6, 1:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 6, 12:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
1234 PM CDT MON JUN 6 2005

ALZ007-016-061830-
CULLMAN-MORGAN-
1234 PM CDT MON JUN 6 2005

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR CULLMAN AND MORGAN COUNTIES UNTIL
130 PM...

AT 1233 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES EAST OF
MOULTON TO 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF SUMITON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

PEA SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 40 MPH...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE...
  WILBURN.
  JONES CHAPEL.
  NEEL.
  MASSEY.
  BATTLEGROUND.
  WEST POINT.

SEEK SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL
TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS
CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION.

KULA
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 12:49 PM CDT, 2 hours before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
1249 PM CDT MON JUN 6 2005

ALZ006-061915-
MADISON-
1251 PM CDT MON JUN 6 2005

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR MADISON COUNTY...

AT 1251 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTH OF HARVEST...OR 11 MILES
NORTHWEST OF MERIDIANVILLE...AND WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

PEA SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 40 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

OTHER SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FORM AND MOVE
EAST INTO MADISON COUNTY THROUGH 2 PM. A HIGHER THREAT OF STRONG
WINDS MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE EAST AND NORTHEAST OUT
OF LIMESTONE AND MORGAN COUNTIES.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE...
  ELKWOOD.
  MOORES MILL.
  MERIDIANVILLE.
  GLADSTONE.
  TONEY.
  NORMAL.

SEEK SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL
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CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION.

TROUTMAN
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 1:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
110 PM CDT MON JUN 6 2005

ALZ007-061830-
MORGAN-
110 PM CDT MON JUN 6 2005

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR MORGAN COUNTY UNTIL 130 PM...

AT 108 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR HARTSELLE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

ONE HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL AND WINDS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE...
  HARTSELLE.
  LEESDALE.
  COLE SPRINGS.
  SOMERVILLE.

SEEK SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL
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CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION.

KULA
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 1:51 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 2:05 PM CDT, 44 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Huntsville, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 10:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHUNLauderdale22 min
Jun 6, 11:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHUNLauderdale45 min
Jun 6, 11:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHUNColbert, Lawrence50 min
Jun 6, 11:52 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHUNLauderdale4 hr
Jun 6, 11:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHUNLauderdale48 min
Jun 6, 12:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHUNJackson50 min
Jun 6, 1:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHUNMorgan42 min
Jun 6, 1:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHUNMadison40 min
Jun 6, 1:49 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHUNMadison3 hr
Jun 6, 2:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHUNDeKalb, Jackson41 min
Jun 6, 2:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHUNDeKalb44 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Alabama, 2005Every flash flood warning in 2005

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.