Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 2008, 3:49 PM CDT for Limestone County, Madison County, Alabama. It was in force for 26 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
- Jul 12, 2008, 3:49 PM CDT (20:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2008, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 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 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 2028 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 763 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 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 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 Jul 11, 6:16 PM CDT, 21 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 6:16 PM CDT, 21 hours 33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Limestone, Madison, Morgan | 45 min |
| Jul 12, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman, Marshall, Morgan | 43 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
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.