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Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Huntsville, AL

July 14, 2005Lauderdale County, Alabama

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

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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.