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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2007, 6:15 PM CDT for Morgan 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 2007, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2007, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Morgan County, AL
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 1305 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 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 10, 2:15 PM CDT, 4 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 10, 2:15 PM CDT, 4 hours before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 100 PM CDT THU MAY 10 2007 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-111000- LAUDERDALE-COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-MADISON-MORGAN- MARSHALL-JACKSON-DE KALB-CULLMAN-MOORE-LINCOLN-FRANKLIN TN- 100 PM CDT THU MAY 10 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...THROUGH TONIGHT... THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. THE COMBINATION OF A WEATHER DISTURBANCE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES AND AFTERNOON HEATING WILL CAUSE ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE REGION. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE MICROBURSTS...RESULTING IN BRIEF WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH...HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND SMALL HAIL. CONDITIONS ACROSS NORTHWEST ALABAMA WILL BE MORE FAVORABLE FOR THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. MOST OF THE SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY SHOULD DISSIPATE SHORTLY AFTER SUNSET. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AS A WEAK COLD FRONT MOVES INTO THE TENNESSEE VALLEY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY ALSO BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING MICROBURSTS. ANOTHER WEAK FRONT IS EXPECTED TO CAUSE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO RETURN TO THE AREA BY THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. JE
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 10, 2:39 PM CDT, 3 hours 36 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 10, 1:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Franklin | 14 min |
| May 10, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lawrence | 16 min |
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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.