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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 2005, 4:00 PM CDT for Limestone County, Alabama. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 25, 2005, 4:00 PM CDT (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 2005, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Limestone County, AL
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 11:05 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 154 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1073 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 242 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KHUN 252059 TORHUN ALC083-252130- /O.NEW.KHUN.TO.W.0013.050925T2100Z-050925T2130Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 400 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LIMESTONE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 430 PM CDT * AT 358 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ATHENS...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... ATHENS. ARDMORE. THIS STORM SHOWS STRONG ROTATION AND MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. DO NOT WAIT...GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW PUT AS MANY WALLS AS POSSIBLE BETWEEN YOU AND THE STORM. LAT...LON 3467 8718 3463 8697 3499 8681 3500 8710 $$ KULA
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KHUN 252108 SVSHUN SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 407 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2005 ALC083-252130- /O.CON.KHUN.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050925T2130Z/ LIMESTONE AL- 407 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR LIMESTONE COUNTY... AT 405 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR ATHENS...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE... TANNER. ATHENS. CARTWRIGHT. ELKMONT. HOLLAND GIN. THIS STORM SHOWS STRONG ROTATION AND MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. DO NOT WAIT...GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW PUT AS MANY WALLS AS POSSIBLE BETWEEN YOU AND THE STORM. LAT...LON 3467 8718 3463 8697 3499 8681 3500 8710 $$ PB
000 WWUS54 KHUN 252117 SVSHUN SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 416 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2005 ALC083-252130- /O.CON.KHUN.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050925T2130Z/ LIMESTONE AL- 416 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR LIMESTONE COUNTY... AT 415 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD ALONG INTERSTATE 65 JUST NORTH OF TANNER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE... ATHENS. ELKMONT. HOLLAND GIN. ARDMORE. THIS STORM CONTINUES TO SHOW STRONG ROTATION AND MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. DO NOT WAIT...GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW PUT AS MANY WALLS AS POSSIBLE BETWEEN YOU AND THE STORM. LAT...LON 3467 8718 3463 8697 3499 8681 3500 8710 $$ PB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Huntsville, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 3:52 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | HUN | Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more | 14 hr |
| Sep 25, 3:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Lawrence | 39 min |
| Sep 25, 3:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Cullman | 20 min |
| Sep 25, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Lauderdale | 31 min |
| Sep 25, 3:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Morgan | 41 min |
| Sep 25, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Madison | 49 min |
| Sep 25, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Lawrence | 46 min |
| Sep 25, 4:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Cullman | 28 min |
| Sep 25, 4:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Lauderdale | 26 min |
| Sep 25, 4:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Lawrence | 34 min |
| Sep 25, 4:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Limestone | 33 min |
| Sep 25, 4:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Limestone | 33 min |
| Sep 25, 4:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Morgan | 36 min |
| Sep 25, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Cullman | 47 min |
| Sep 25, 5:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Franklin | 52 min |
| Sep 25, 5:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Morgan | 29 min |
| Sep 25, 6:56 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | HUN | Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
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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.