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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Huntsville, AL

June 28, 2005Moore County, Tennessee

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 2005, 8:28 PM CDT for Moore County, Tennessee. It was in force for 4 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 28, 2005, 8:28 PM CDT (01:28 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 2005, 12:30 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Huntsville, AL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Moore County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 96 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2005-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1585 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2005-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 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
1585 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1216 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
19 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 28, 8:17 PM CDT, 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 8:17 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 12:51 PM CDT, 7 hours 37 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
1251 PM CDT TUE JUN 28 2005

ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-291000-
COLBERT-CULLMAN-DE KALB-FRANKLIN AL-FRANKLIN TN-JACKSON-LAUDERDALE-
LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-LINCOLN-MADISON-MARSHALL-MOORE-MORGAN-
1251 PM CDT TUE JUN 28 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PARTS OF
SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE.

.DAY ONE...(REST OF TODAY)...

THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

A WARM AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS COMBINED WITH AFTERNOON HEATING WILL
CONTINUE TO PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE
TENNESSEE VALLEY TODAY. THE MAJORITY OF THE ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO
BE EAST OF INTERSTATE 65...CLOSER TO THE STREAM OF TROPICAL MOISTURE
MOVING ACROSS THE EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES. THE MAIN
THREATS FROM ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL
AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...(WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY)...

THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL REMAIN ACROSS THE REGION FOR THE REST OF
THE WEEK. AS A RESULT TYPICAL SUMMERTIME AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE EACH DAY. A COLD FRONT MAY BRING SOME
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA ON FRIDAY AND POSSIBLY SOME
DRY WEATHER FOR SATURDAY. A RETURN TO TYPICAL SUMMERTIME AFTERNOON
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED EARLY NEXT WEEK.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...

ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL
IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.

PG/24

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 28, 7:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
706 PM CDT TUE JUN 28 2005

TNZ076-290030-
MOORE-
706 PM CDT TUE JUN 28 2005

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR MOORE COUNTY...

AT 705 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES EAST OF PETERSBURG...OR 8 MILES WEST OF
LYNCHBURG. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SLOWLY EAST.

PEA SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

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.

SCHAUB
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 7:46 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 7:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHUNMoore27 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 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.