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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2006, 2:25 PM CDT for Madison County, Alabama. It was in force for 25 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
- May 28, 2006, 2:25 PM CDT (19:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2006, 2:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Madison County, AL
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 1241 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1137 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 28, 2:03 PM CDT, 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 28, 2:03 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 1250 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 2006 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-290200- LAUDERDALE-COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-MADISON-MORGAN- MARSHALL-JACKSON-DE KALB-CULLMAN-MOORE-LINCOLN-FRANKLIN TN- 1250 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BRIEFLY APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS...WITH DAMAGING WIND GUSTS BEING THE MAIN THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... MOIST AND UNSTABLE CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT WIDELY SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH WEDNESDAY. A BETTER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR ON THURSDAY AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE REGION. THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS THIS WEEK WILL BE FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. 10
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 28, 11:12 AM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 1112 AM CDT SUN MAY 28 2006 TNZ097-281645- FRANKLIN- 1112 AM CDT SUN MAY 28 2006 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR NORTHEAST FRANKLIN COUNTY UNTIL 1145 AM CDT... AT 1106 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR COWAN...OR 5 MILES EAST OF WINCHESTER... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. ONE HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL...WINDS UP TO 40 MPH...BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE... COWAN. SEWANEE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION. 10
Special weather statement, May 28, 11:50 AM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Huntsville, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 12:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Jackson | 38 min |
| May 28, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Madison | 27 min |
| May 28, 4:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Limestone | 90 min |
| May 28, 11:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Franklin | 20 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
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.