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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2008, 6:41 PM CDT for Lauderdale County, Alabama. It was in force for 38 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 22, 2008, 6:41 PM CDT (23:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2008, 7:19 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Lauderdale County, AL
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 12:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 2116 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1289 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
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 22, 6:39 PM CDT, 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 6:39 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 100 PM CDT TUE JUL 22 2008 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-230300- LAUDERDALE-COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-MADISON-MORGAN- MARSHALL-JACKSON-DE KALB-CULLMAN-MOORE-LINCOLN-FRANKLIN TN- 100 PM CDT TUE JUL 22 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH SUNSET THIS EVENING...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND WEST OF FAYETTEVILLE TENNESSEE...TO HUNTSVILLE LINE. THE PRIMARY THREATS WILL BE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY. SOME STORMS COULD BE STRONG...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN. A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS SHOULD LEAD TO FAIRLY TYPICAL AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. A WEAK COLD FRONT MAY INCREASE THE STORM THREAT BY SUNDAY OR MONDAY. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. DJN
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 22, 4:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Huntsville, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman | 31 min |
| Jul 22, 1:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Morgan | 38 min |
| Jul 22, 1:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Madison | 46 min |
| Jul 22, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Jackson | 49 min |
| Jul 22, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Madison | 39 min |
| Jul 22, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lawrence, Limestone, Morgan | 30 min |
| Jul 22, 2:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Lawrence, Morgan | 69 min |
| Jul 22, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Jackson, Marshall | 38 min |
| Jul 22, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lauderdale, Limestone | 24 min |
| Jul 22, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb | 24 min |
| Jul 22, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lawrence, Morgan | 37 min |
| Jul 22, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Limestone | 32 min |
| Jul 22, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb, Jackson | 33 min |
| Jul 22, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb | 32 min |
| Jul 22, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Limestone, Madison | 39 min |
| Jul 22, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Franklin, Lawrence | 18 min |
| Jul 22, 1:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lincoln | 48 min |
| Jul 22, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lincoln | 31 min |
| Jul 22, 1:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Moore | 40 min |
| Jul 22, 1:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Franklin, Lincoln, Moore | 26 min |
| Jul 22, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Franklin | 31 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.