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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 1, 2007, 12:29 PM CST for Colbert County, Alabama. It was in force for 24 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
- Mar 1, 2007, 12:29 PM CST (18:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2007, 12:53 PM CST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Colbert County, AL
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 7:28 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 869 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 385 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 550 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 Mar 1, 12:00 PM CST, 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 1, 12:00 PM CST, 29 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 1155 AM CST THU MAR 1 2007 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-012300- LAUDERDALE-COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-MADISON-MORGAN- MARSHALL-JACKSON-DE KALB-CULLMAN-MOORE-LINCOLN-FRANKLIN TN- 1155 AM CST THU MAR 1 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... PERIODS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO IMPACT THE TENNESSEE VALLEY REGION THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS AHEAD OF A POWERFUL UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT. STRONG WIND SHEAR...COUPLED WITH INCREASING GULF MOISTURE...WILL SET THE STAGE FOR A POTENTIAL SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER EVENT ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON. THE HIGHEST THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE IN THE MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT. THESE STORMS WILL BRING A THREAT OF DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. IF CONDITIONS COME TOGETHER JUST RIGHT...SOME OF THESE TORNADOES COULD BE STRONG. AT THIS TIME...IT APPEARS THAT THE HIGHEST THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE ACROSS NORTHWEST ALABAMA THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON...THE I-65 CORRIDOR BETWEEN 2 AND 5 PM...AND NORTHEAST ALABAMA TOWARD RUSH HOUR. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS EXPECTED THROUGH THIS EVENING. 10/15
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 1, 10:12 AM CST, 2 hours 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 1012 AM CST THU MAR 1 2007 ALZ001>003-011700- COLBERT-FRANKLIN-LAUDERDALE- 1012 AM CST THU MAR 1 2007 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR COLBERT...FRANKLIN AND LAUDERDALE COUNTIES UNTIL 1100 AM CST... ...STORMS INTENSIFYING OVER NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND HEADING FOR NORTHWEST ALABAMA... AT 1004 AM CST...SATELLITE IMAGERY AND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS WERE INTENSIFYING 6 MILES WEST OF BELMONT...OR 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF RED BAY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH. A STRONGER THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR TUPELO...ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH. PEOPLE IN WESTERN FRANKLIN...AND MUCH OF LAUDERDALE AND COLBERT COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE CITIES OF RED BAY...CHEROKEE...AND THE SHOALS AREA...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN. A TORNADO WATCH WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF THE DAY. BCC
Special weather statement, Mar 1, 11:41 AM CST, 48 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 1141 AM CST THU MAR 1 2007 ALZ003-011815- FRANKLIN- 1141 AM CST THU MAR 1 2007 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR FRANKLIN COUNTY UNTIL 1215 PM CST... ...THUNDERSTORM INTENSIFYING OVER ITAWAMBA COUNTY MISSISSIPPI... AT 1142 AM CST...SATELLITE IMAGERY AND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN INTENSIFYING THUNDERSTORM NEAR TREMONT MISSISSIPPI...OR 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FULTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. THE STORM HAS SHOWN STRONGER ROTATION IN THE LAST SEVERAL MINUTES. PEOPLE IN WESTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF RED BAY... SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA UNTIL 6 PM CST. BCC
Local storm report, Mar 1, 12:03 PM CST, 26 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 |
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| Mar 1, 10:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lauderdale | 49 min |
| Mar 1, 10:54 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Lauderdale | 36 min |
| Mar 1, 11:01 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Colbert | 29 min |
| Mar 1, 11:05 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lauderdale | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 11:28 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Lauderdale | 32 min |
| Mar 1, 11:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Franklin | 35 min |
| Mar 1, 3:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Cullman | 33 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007
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.