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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 2005, 5:08 PM CDT for Franklin County, Alabama. It was in force for 52 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, 5:08 PM CDT (22:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 2005, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Franklin County, AL
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 767 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KHUN 252209 TORHUN ALC059-252300- /O.NEW.KHUN.TO.W.0021.050925T2208Z-050925T2300Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 508 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FRANKLIN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 505 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF PHIL CAMPBELL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE... PHIL CAMPBELL. DUKETON. SPRUCE PINE. PLEASANT RIDGE. THARPTOWN. 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 3432 8797 3420 8780 3449 8751 3457 8764 $$ PB
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KHUN 252233 SVSHUN SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 530 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2005 ALC059-252300- /O.CON.KHUN.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-050925T2300Z/ FRANKLIN AL- 530 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR FRANKLIN COUNTY... AT 526 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR RUSSELLVILLE... MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE... RUSSELLVILLE. PLEASANT RIDGE. THARPTOWN. ANOTHER STORM IS APPROACHING FROM ITAWAMBA COUNTY MISSISSIPPI AND WILL MOVE INTO THE RED BAY AREA. THIS STORM ALSO SHOWS STRONG ROTATION AND WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM SHOWS STRONG ROTATION AND MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. DO NOT WAIT...GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW PUT AS MANY WALLS AS POSSIBLE BETWEEN YOU AND THE STORM. LAT...LON 3432 8797 3432 8769 3455 8755 3457 8781 $$ PB
000 WWUS54 KHUN 252256 SVSHUN SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 557 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2005 ALC059-252307- /O.EXP.KHUN.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-050925T2300Z/ FRANKLIN AL- 557 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR FRANKLIN COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... AT 557 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAD EXITED FRANKLIN COUNTY. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR FAVORITE LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3432 8797 3432 8769 3455 8755 3457 8781 $$ 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, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Limestone | 30 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, 5:16 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 |
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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.