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Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this flash flood warning at Dec 9, 2008, 11:30 PM CST for Franklin County, Lincoln County, Moore County, Tennessee. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 9, 2008, 11:30 PM CST (05:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 10, 2008, 5:30 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Franklin County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Moore County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 530 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 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 Dec 9, 9:38 PM CST, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 9, 9:38 PM CST, 1 hour 52 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 9, 8:51 PM CST, 2 hours 39 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 851 PM CST TUE DEC 9 2008 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-101100- LAUDERDALE-COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-MADISON-MORGAN- MARSHALL-JACKSON-DE KALB-CULLMAN-MOORE-LINCOLN-FRANKLIN TN- 851 PM CST TUE DEC 9 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT... SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WILL OCCUR AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING STORM SYSTEM...WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 40 MPH IN THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS. IN ADDITION...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OVERSPREAD THE AREA THIS EVENING. SOME STORMS MAY BE STRONG... CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN AND BRIEF WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH. WIDESPREAD RAINFALL OF 1 TO 3 INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH DAYBREAK...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS UNDER TRAINING THUNDERSTORMS. PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS AND MINOR FLOODING OF LOW-LYING AREAS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY PERSISTENT HEAVY RAIN. FOR MORE INFORMATION...PLEASE SEE THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH /HUNFFAHUN/. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... AS THE COLD FRONT PUSHES EASTWARD...THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIT EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE CENTRAL TENNESSEE VALLEY EARLY WEDNESDAY. COLDER AND DRIER AIR WILL FILTER INTO THE REGION ON WEDNESDAY. ANOTHER STORM SYSTEM DIGGING INTO THE GULF COASTAL REGION...IS FORECAST TO TRACK FROM THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO AND THROUGH THE SOUTHEAST STATES WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY. THIS WILL BRING ANOTHER BATCH OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR A MIX OF RAIN AND SNOW THURSDAY. UNCERTAINTY REMAINS QUITE HIGH WITH REGARDS TO STRENGTH AND TIMING OF THIS PARTICULAR STORM. RESIDENTS ARE URGED TO MONITOR FUTURE UPDATED FORECASTS AS THIS SYSTEM DEVELOPS. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS POSSIBLE TONIGHT. SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY STORM DAMAGE OR RAINFALL AMOUNTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE. AMP/DJN/JLL
In the hours before
Local storm report, Dec 9, 9:51 PM CST, 1 hour 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
951 PM CST TUE DEC 09 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0920 PM TSTM WND DMG RED BAY 34.44N 88.14W
12/09/2008 FRANKLIN AL LAW ENFORCEMENT
REPORT OF POWER OUTAGES IN RED BAY FROM DOWNED UTILITY
POLES.
&&
AMPLocal storm report, Dec 9, 9:57 PM CST, 1 hour 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
957 PM CST TUE DEC 09 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0925 PM TSTM WND DMG HATTON 34.56N 87.41W
12/09/2008 LAWRENCE AL LAW ENFORCEMENT
A TREE WAS KNOCKED DOWN ACROSS HWY 101 IN THE HATTON AREA
NEAR MILEMAKER 2.
&&
AMPLocal storm report, Dec 9, 10:00 PM CST, 1 hour 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
1000 PM CST TUE DEC 09 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0955 PM FLASH FLOOD CHEROKEE 34.76N 87.97W
12/09/2008 COLBERT AL TRAINED SPOTTER
REPORT OF DITCHES AND CREEKS FLOODING NEAR CHEROKEE.
&&
AMPLocal storm report, Dec 9, 11:05 PM CST, 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
1105 PM CST TUE DEC 09 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1055 PM FLASH FLOOD TOWN CREEK 34.68N 87.41W
12/09/2008 LAWRENCE AL LAW ENFORCEMENT
LAWRENCE COUNTY 911 REPORTS WATER OVER PORTIONS OF AL
HIGHWAY 101
1055 PM FLASH FLOOD 3 N CHALYBEATE SPRINGS 34.61N 87.22W
12/09/2008 LAWRENCE AL LAW ENFORCEMENT
LAWRENCE COUNTY 911 REPORTS WATER OVER CR 222.
&&
DLSpecial weather statement, Dec 9, 11:24 PM CST, 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 1124 PM CST TUE DEC 9 2008 ALZ005-100615- LIMESTONE- 1124 PM CST TUE DEC 9 2008 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR LIMESTONE COUNTY UNTIL 1215 AM CST... AT 1120 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR TANNER...OR 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ATHENS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. WINDS UP TO 50 MPH AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE... ELKMONT...LEGGTOWN. HOLLAND GIN...BETHEL. ARDMORE. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1.00 ARE POSSIBLE FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN AN HOUR. THIS MAY RESULT IN BRIEF RUNOFF PROBLEMS AND PONDING OF WATER ON AREA ROADWAYS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION. SS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Huntsville, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 9, 8:44 PM CST | Flash Flood Watch | HUN | Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more | 12 hr |
| Dec 9, 9:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Franklin | 37 min |
| Dec 9, 9:29 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale | 6 hr |
| Dec 9, 9:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin | 47 min |
| Dec 9, 10:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lawrence | 44 min |
| Dec 9, 10:34 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Colbert, Cullman, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone and 3 more | 9 hr |
| Dec 10, 12:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman | 52 min |
| Dec 10, 12:22 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Cullman | 23 min |
| Dec 10, 12:43 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Cullman | 32 min |
| Dec 10, 1:06 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Jackson | 24 min |
| Dec 10, 1:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Jackson, Marshall | 33 min |
| Dec 10, 1:14 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Cullman | 31 min |
| Dec 10, 1:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb, Jackson | 20 min |
| Dec 10, 1:44 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | DeKalb, Jackson, Marshall | 3 hr |
| Dec 10, 2:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb, Marshall | 23 min |
| Dec 10, 2:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman | 20 min |
| Dec 10, 3:18 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale | 6 hr |
| Dec 10, 5:20 AM CST | River Flood Warning | HUN | Madison | 58 hr |
| Dec 10, 5:29 AM CST | River Flood Warning | HUN | Lawrence | 3 days |
| Dec 10, 2:08 PM CST | River Flood Warning | HUN | Madison | 16 hr |
| Dec 10, 4:05 PM CST | Flood Watch | HUN | Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more | 23 hr |
| Dec 10, 4:07 PM CST | Wind Advisory | HUN | Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more | 10 hr |
| Dec 10, 5:15 AM CST | River Flood Warning | HUN | Franklin, Lincoln | 14 hr |
| Dec 10, 5:38 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | HUN | Franklin, Lincoln, Moore | 3 hr |
Nearby
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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.