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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 2007, 4:04 PM CDT for Madison County, Alabama. It was in force for 11 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
- Jun 30, 2007, 4:04 PM CDT (21:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2007, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 11 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 21:07 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 12:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 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
- 351 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1035 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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 Jun 30, 11:52 AM CDT, 4 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 11:52 AM CDT, 4 hours 12 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 1152 AM CDT SAT JUN 30 2007 .SYNOPSIS... ANTICIPATING ANOTHER FAIRLY ACTIVE CONVECTIVE WX AFTERNOON (SWOMCD JUST ISSUED FOR POSSIBLE SVR WATCH)...SO ISSUING AFD A BIT EARLY. FEW MAJOR CHANGES HAVE BEEN MADE TO THE OVERALL FORECAST. SYNOPTICS TRANSITION TO WEAK NW FLOW THIS WEEK...WITH A POSSIBLE COLD FRONT AGAIN SHOWING UP LATE THIS WEEK. .SHORT TERM... MESOSCALE FEATURES WILL DICTATE FINAL AFTERNOON PACKAGE FOR TONIGHT. VIS IMAGERY AND RADAR SHOWS INITIAL CU/TCU FIELD EXPLODING ACROSS N MS THROUGH MIDDLE AL IN CONVERGENCE ZONE AND THETA-E/CAPE RIDGE. MU CAPES IN THIS ZONE ARE OVER 3000 J/KG. 8H- 3H MEAN FLOW SHOULD BRING N MS ACTIVITY INTO THE SHOALS 18-20Z. OUTFLOW ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVITY IN WEST CENTRAL-CENTRAL AL WILL LIKELY MIGRATE DEVELOPMENT INTO TN VALLEY LATER THIS AFTERNOON. A RELATIVELY COOLER BUBBLE WHERE AIR IS MORE STABLE ACROSS NE AL AND EASTERN SOUTHERN MIDDLE TN SHOULD HOLD OFF DEVELOPMENT. THIS IS ALSO WHERE HEAVIER RAINFALL OCCURRED LAST EVENING AND OVERNIGHT STRATUS/FG DEVELOPED. MODIFIED 12Z SOUNDINGS INDICATE DECENT WET MICROBURST POTENTIAL ONCE AGAIN...HIGHEST THREAT S AND W WHERE HIGHER MUCAPE PRESENTS. .LONGER TERM... HAVE KEPT CHC POP IN THE SUNDAY (LOWERED FROM 40 TO 30 PCT)...PENDING FURTHER COORDINATION AND EVALUATION. I DO BELIEVE THERMODYNAMICS WILL BE LESS FAVORABLE OVER LOCAL AREA...WITH LOW LEVEL NORTH FLOW BEGINNING TO ADVECT MORE STABLE CP AIR IN FROM THE N. IN FACT...THE GFS FORECASTS DEW POINTS (RESULTING FROM ADVECTION AND MIXING) DOWN INTO THE 40S AND 50S MONDAY AFTERNOON. THIS COULD RESULT IN RATHER HOT TEMPS (M-U90S)...BUT WILL STAY CONSERVATIVE FOR NOW OPTING FOR MORE CONSISTENCY. MCVS CONTINUE TO BE GENERATED BY THE NAM...ONE OF WHICH MIGRATES FROM THE SOUTHERN PLAINS TROF ON TUESDAY. THE GFS IS PREFERRED LACKING THIS FEATURE...BUT DOES CARRY LARGER SCALE 5H TROF AXIS THROUGH TUE NIGHT INTO WED. IN EITHER CASE...AIRMASS SHOULD BE STABLE AT THIS POINT. WILL KEEP DRY FORECAST IN THROUGH THURSDAY...WITH ENLARGED DIURNAL RANGES OVER GUIDANCE. && && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... HUNTSVILLE 70 89 67 92 / 30 30 10 10 SHOALS 70 89 66 93 / 30 30 10 10 CULLMAN 69 89 67 91 / 30 30 10 10 FAYETTEVILLE 69 87 65 90 / 30 30 10 10 ALBERTVILLE 69 88 67 91 / 30 30 10 10 FORT PAYNE 69 88 66 91 / 30 30 10 10 && .HUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...NONE. TN...NONE. && KULA
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 30, 12:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 1200 PM CDT SAT JUN 30 2007 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-310400- LAUDERDALE-COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-MADISON-MORGAN- MARSHALL-JACKSON-DE KALB-CULLMAN-MOORE-LINCOLN-FRANKLIN TN- 1200 PM CDT SAT JUN 30 2007 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 THIS AFTERNOON... PERSISTING WELL INTO THE EVENING HOURS. MUCH LIKE PREVIOUS DAYS...SEVERAL STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED... WITH THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THESE STORMS BEING GUSTY OR DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE WORK WEEK...AND A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL REMAIN A POSSIBILITY DURING THIS TIME. HOWEVER...THE THREAT FOR DAMAGING WINDS WILL DIMINISH SOMEWHAT BY MONDAY...AND SLIGHTLY DRIER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED FOR THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. MR
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 2:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 230 PM CDT SAT JUN 30 2007 ALZ007-016-302015- CULLMAN-MORGAN- 230 PM CDT SAT JUN 30 2007 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR NORTHERN CULLMAN AND SOUTHERN MORGAN COUNTIES UNTIL 315 PM CDT... AT 228 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FALKVILLE...OR 8 MILES NORTH OF CULLMAN...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. PEA SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE... EVA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR NORTHERN ALABAMA. 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, Jun 30, 3:52 PM CDT, 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb | 17 min |
| Jun 29, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Morgan | 27 min |
| Jun 30, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lawrence | 34 min |
| Jun 30, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lawrence | 35 min |
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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.