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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 2008, 12:14 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Tennessee. It was in force for 43 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 13, 2008, 12:14 PM CDT (17:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2008, 12:57 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Lincoln County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:15 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 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 907 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1074 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 13, 9:55 AM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 9:55 AM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 1006 AM CDT FRI JUN 13 2008 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-140300- LAUDERDALE-COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-MADISON-MORGAN- MARSHALL-JACKSON-DE KALB-CULLMAN-MOORE-LINCOLN-FRANKLIN TN- 1006 AM CDT FRI JUN 13 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THROUGH THE DAY. GIVEN UNSTABLE AND MOIST CONDITIONS...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING ARE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE FOR A BRIEF PERIOD...CAPABLE OF DAMAGING WINDS. THE HEAVY DOWNPOURS COULD ALSO CAUSE SOME MINOR STREET FLOODING AS WELL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE CENTRAL TENNESSEE VALLEY ON SATURDAY AS A COOL FRONT APPROACHES THE REGION. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND GUSTY OUTFLOW WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY AS AN UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS THE AREA. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. KULA
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 11:22 AM CDT, 52 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 13, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Limestone | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 11:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lincoln | 36 min |
| Jun 13, 12:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lincoln | 23 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.