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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this flash flood warning at May 3, 2006, 9:58 PM CDT for Lauderdale County, Alabama. It was in force for 3 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
- May 3, 2006, 9:58 PM CDT (02:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2006, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 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 03:00 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 1137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1235 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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 May 3, 2:36 PM CDT, 7 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 3, 2:36 PM CDT, 7 hours 22 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 112 PM CDT WED MAY 3 2006 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-040215- LAUDERDALE-COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-MADISON-MORGAN- MARSHALL-JACKSON-DE KALB-CULLMAN-MOORE-LINCOLN-FRANKLIN TN- 112 PM CDT WED MAY 3 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR ISOLATED STORMS TO BECOME STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE DURING THIS TIME...WITH THE MAIN THREATS BEING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. ANY LINGERING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL WEAKEN AND GRADUALLY DIMINISH AFTER SUNSET. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE THURSDAY AS A MORE HUMID AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS BUILDS ACROSS THE REGION. ONCE AGAIN...A FEW STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE...BRINGING A THREAT OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. A MORE ORGANIZED THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS INCLUDING A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL EXIST ON FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT AS A STRONGER COLD FRONT ENTERS THE REGION. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... FORMAL ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY. HOWEVER...SOME COUNTIES MAY BE CALLED UPON FOR STORM REPORTS ON AN AS NEEDED BASIS. 10
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 3, 5:19 PM CDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
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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.