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Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jul 14, 2005, 7:38 PM CDT 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 2005, 7:38 PM CDT (00:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2005, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lauderdale County, AL
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 Jul 14, 2:26 PM CDT, 5 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 2:26 PM CDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 226 PM CDT THU JUL 14 2005 .DISCUSSION... IT APPEARS DIFFERENTIAL HEATING HAS ONCE AGAIN SPURRED EARLY CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT WHICH HAS NOW PROPOGATED S OF THE TN RIVER. COLD POOL/OUTFLOW SEEMS TO BE DRIVING ITS SEWD PROGRESS AS MEAN FLOW IS WESTERLY. ITS A GOOD THING HOWEVER...AS HEAT INDICES WERE REACHING NEAR 100 SE OF THE STORMS. SBCAPES WERE ALSO REACHING AROUND THEIR EXPECTATIONS...2500-3000 J/KG AND PERHAP LOCALLY HIGHER WHERE DEW POINTS REACHED 76F. VIS IMAGERY SHOWS FURTHER DEVELOPMENT TO THE W INTO NORTHERN MS. THE ETA12 HAS THIS PEGGED PRETTY WELL...WHICH WOULD PLACE OUR CWA/HSA IN LINE FOR TSRA AND POTENTIAL HEAVY RAIN INTO THE EVENING HOURS. WINDEX VALUES ARE MARGINAL...BUT STILL COULD SEE AN ISOLATED DOWNBURST...WITH HIGHEST THREAT IN OUR SW COUNTIES. WELL STICK WITH 50 POPS THIS EVENING...BUT REASSESS RADAR/SAT JUST BEFORE PRESS TIME. THE CIRCULATION...FORMERLY KNOWN AS DENNIS...CONTINUES TO DROP SE INTO MIDDLE KY WITH ANOTHER SPOKE OF CONVECTION THROUGH SOUTHERN MO. I SUSPECT THAT THIS CIRCULATION WILL CONTINUE TO EVOLVE INTO THE LONGER WAVE TROF THAT IS SITUATED SW INTO TX. THIS WILL BACK LOW LEVEL WINDS TO THE SW TONIGHT AND POTENTIALLY HANG THE RESULTING OUTFLOW BOUNDARY ACROSS THE TN VALLEY ON FRIDAY. THE MODELS BLANKET QPF ON FRIDAY IS PROBABLY A BIT OVER DONE...AS WITH CLOUD COVER...AND POPS. THE MEX HAS A 100 POP FOR WHAT THATS WORTH IN THE SHORT TERM. THAT BEING SAID...I AM GOING WITH THE THOUGHT THAT THIS OUTFLOW BOUNDARY SHOULD FLARE UP IN OUR AREA AGAIN BY MIDDAY ON FRIDAY...THUS WELL KEEP 50 POPS ON FRIDAY. OVERALL...FEW CHANGES MADE TO THE FORECAST AS WE WILL HEAD INTO A SUMMERTIME PATTERN. THE BERMUDA HIGH WILL BECOME MORE DOMINANT IN THE SE...WITH STRONGER RIDGING BY SUNDAY. I HAVE BEGUN TO LOWER POPS SLIGHTLY ON SUNDAY...WITH A DIURNAL OSCILLATION IN CONVECTIVE CHANCES STILL LOOKING GOOD. TEMPS SHOULD EVENTUALLY CLIMB INTO THE LOWER 90S LATE NEXT WEEK...AND DEPENDING ON HOW WIDESPREAD RAIN IS THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS...DEW POINTS MAY REACH THE MID 70S. FOR NOW...MAINTAINED LOWER 70S. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... HUNTSVILLE 72 87 71 87 / 20 50 50 40 SHOALS 72 86 72 87 / 20 50 50 40 CULLMAN 72 86 71 88 / 20 50 50 40 FAYETTEVILLE 72 86 71 87 / 20 50 50 40 FT PAYNE 71 84 67 85 / 20 50 50 40 && .HUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...NONE. TN...NONE. && KULA
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 14, 5:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 555 PM CDT THU JUL 14 2005 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-151000- COLBERT-CULLMAN-DE KALB-FRANKLIN AL-FRANKLIN TN-JACKSON-LAUDERDALE- LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-LINCOLN-MADISON-MARSHALL-MOORE-MORGAN- 555 PM CDT THU JUL 14 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PARTS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...(THROUGH TONIGHT)... A MOISTURE RICH AIR MASS REMAINS OVER THE TENNESSEE VALLEY. HIGH AMOUNT OF MOISTURE...COMBINED WITH WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES MOVING AROUND AN UPPER LEVEL LOW CENTERED OVER THE OHIO VALLEY...WILL KEEP SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE FORECAST THROUGH TONIGHT. A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...(FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY)... THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN A POSSIBILITY THROUGH THE REST OF THE WORK WEEK...MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE MAIN THREATS WITH ANY STRONGER STORMS. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. RSB
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 2:03 PM CDT, 5 hours 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 203 PM CDT THU JUL 14 2005 ALZ003-141930- FRANKLIN AL- 203 PM CDT THU JUL 14 2005 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR FRANKLIN COUNTY UNTIL 230 PM CDT... AT 203 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR BELGREEN...OR 8 MILES WEST OF RUSSELLVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. WINDS UP TO 40 MPH AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BELGREEN... ROCKWOOD...ISBELL...RUSSELLVILLE...PLEASANT RIDGE...AND THARPTOWN. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO THE STORM TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. SEEK SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. 27
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 3:18 PM CDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 318 PM CDT THU JUL 14 2005 ALZ016-142100- CULLMAN- 318 PM CDT THU JUL 14 2005 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR CULLMAN COUNTY UNTIL 4 PM... AT 315 PM CDT...SATELLITE IMAGERY AND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING NEAR CULLMAN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE IN FAR NORTHEAST AND SOUTHERN CULLMAN COUNTY...ALSO MOVING EAST. 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... PHELAN. HANCEVILLE. WALTER. HOLLY POND. SEEK SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. KULA
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 3:22 PM CDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 322 PM CDT THU JUL 14 2005 ALZ003-142100- FRANKLIN- 322 PM CDT THU JUL 14 2005 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR FRANKLIN COUNTY UNTIL 4 PM... AT 321 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR RED BAY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. WINDS UP TO 40 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. PONDING OF WATER MAY OCCUR QUICKLY ON AREA ROADS. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE... RED BAY. VINA. ATWOOD. THIS THUNDERSTORM COULD INTENSIFY QUICKLY...SO BE READY TO ACT IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. 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, Jul 14, 6:54 PM CDT, 44 minutes before
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The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.