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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Huntsville, AL

April 21, 2005Morgan County, Alabama

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 21, 2005, 10:31 PM CDT for Morgan County, Alabama. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 21, 2005, 10:31 PM CDT (03:31 UTC)
Expired: Apr 21, 2005, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Huntsville, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Morgan County, AL

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:34 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

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 142 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 376 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -131 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1046 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 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 severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 21, 10:00 PM CDT, 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 21, 10:00 PM CDT, 31 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 21, 9:45 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 21, 7:02 PM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 21, 10:14 PM CDT, 17 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 21, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Lauderdale	47 min
Apr 21, 9:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HUN	Lauderdale	3 hr
Apr 21, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Lauderdale	48 min
Apr 21, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lawrence	50 min
Apr 21, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lauderdale	50 min
Apr 21, 10:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lawrence, Limestone	39 min
Apr 21, 11:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lauderdale, Limestone	52 min
Apr 21, 11:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Madison, Morgan	52 min
Apr 22, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lauderdale	35 min
Apr 22, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Limestone	50 min
Apr 22, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Jackson, Madison	45 min
Apr 22, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	DeKalb	51 min
Apr 22, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Marshall	30 min
Apr 22, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Jackson	31 min
Apr 22, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Moore	35 min
Apr 22, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Franklin, Lincoln	34 min
Apr 22, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Franklin	25 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm 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.