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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2008, 3:32 PM CDT for Colbert County, Alabama. It was in force for 28 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
- May 26, 2008, 3:32 PM CDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2008, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Colbert County, AL
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 904 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 876 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
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 May 26, 1:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 1:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 257 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2008 ALZ002-003-262045- COLBERT-FRANKLIN- 257 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2008 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR COLBERT AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES UNTIL 345 PM CDT... AT 253 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM CHEROKEE ALABAMA TO BELMONT MISSISSIPPI...OR ROUGHLY ALONG THE NATCHEZ TRACE PARKWAY SOUTH OF THE TENNESSEE RIVER...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 45 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE... CHEROKEE. MYNOT. POGO. BARTON. PLEASANT SITE. RED ROCK. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO THE STORM TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. SEEK SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION. BCC
Local storm report, May 26, 3:04 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
304 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0258 PM HAIL CHEROKEE 34.76N 87.97W
05/26/2008 E0.50 INCH COLBERT AL EMERGENCY MNGR
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES REPORTED.
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BCCThe office that day
Everything else NWS Huntsville, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Madison | 20 min |
| May 26, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Franklin | 23 min |
| May 26, 5:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Colbert | 2 hr |
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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.