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Tornado Warning 43, NWS Huntsville, AL

October 26, 2010Franklin County, Tennessee

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 26, 2010, 2:42 PM CDT for Franklin County, Tennessee. It was in force for 33 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: Oct 26, 2010, 2:42 PM CDT (19:42 UTC)
Expired: Oct 26, 2010, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Huntsville, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Franklin County, TN

The radar

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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
Oct 26, 9:27 AM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	11 hr

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Oct 26, 2:25 PM CDT, 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 26, 2:25 PM CDT, 17 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
225 PM CDT TUE OCT 26 2010

.SHORT TERM...SVR WX OUTBREAK CONTINUES TO UNFOLD ACROSS THE CNTRL
TN VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON...WITH DISCRETE SUPERCELLS CONTINUING TO
DEVELOP ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE MAIN LINE OF CONVECTION PUSHING EWD
INTO NE MS/NW AL. THE MAIN CONVECTIVE LINE IS OCCURRING JUST AHEAD
OF THE COLD FRONT WHICH IS NOW BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO WRN TN/NW MS.
AHEAD OF THE EXPLOSIVE CONVECTION...STRONG INFLOW ALSO CONTINUES TO
IMPACT THE AREA WITH S WINDS AROUND 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40
MPH. ALL OF THIS ACTIVITY IS XPCTED TO CONTINUE WORKING EWD THROUGH
THE REMAINING AFTERNOON HRS AND INTO THE EVENING PERIOD.

SHOWERS/TSTMS ARE XPCTED TO CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HRS ALTHOUGH
THE INTENSITY/COVERAGE WILL BEGIN TO GRADUALLY DIMINISH FROM W TO E
HEADING INTO THE OVERNIGHT PERIOD...WITH THE SLY INFLOW WEAKENING AS
WELL. LIKEWISE...THE THREAT FOR SVR WX WILL BE ENDING AS WELL DURING
THE EVENING HRS...AHEAD OF THE APPROACHING COLD FRONT WHICH SHOULD
BEGIN TO PUSH INTO THE AREA DURING THE LATE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT
PERIOD. CLOUD COVER WILL BE SLOW TO EXIT AS WELL ALTHOUGH SOME
BREAKS SHOULD BEGIN TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA FROM W TO E WITH THE
PASSAGE OF THE COLD FRONT.

SOME LINGERING SHOWERS ARE POSSIBLE DURING THE DAY ON WED WITH THE
UPPER TROUGH/SHEAR AXIS LAGGING TO THE W. COOLER/DRIER AIR THOUGH
WILL BEGIN TO FILTER INTO THE AREA AS STRONG HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS
EWD INTO MUCH OF THE ERN CONUS. OVERALL CONDITIONS/TEMPS LOOK TO
RETURN CLOSE TO SEASONAL TRENDS WITH THE BUILDING HIGH PRESSURE.
&&

.LONG TERM...STRONG/SEASONAL HIGH PRESSURE SHOULD PREVAIL ACROSS THE
SE REGION HEADING INTO THE WEEKEND PERIOD...WITH OVERALL CONDITIONS
AND TEMPS HOVERING NEAR NORMAL TRENDS. A GRADUAL WARMING TREND
SHOULD THEN BEGIN TO OVERSPREAD THE AREA GOING INTO THE NEW WEEK AS
THE SFC HIGH SHIFTS TOWARD THE E. SCT SHOWERS/TSTMS MAY ALSO WORK
THEIR WAY BACK INTO THE FORECAST AREA BY TUE AS ANOTHER COLD FRONT
APPROACHES FROM THE W.
&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
HUNTSVILLE    60  80  48  70  38 /  90  30  10   0   0
SHOALS        55  82  45  70  37 /  60  20   0   0   0
VINEMONT      60  80  48  70  38 /  90  40  10   0   0
FAYETTEVILLE  56  79  46  69  37 /  90  30  10   0   0
ALBERTVILLE   62  80  50  69  38 /  90  40  10   0   0
FORT PAYNE    61  79  47  69  37 /  90  40  10   0   0
&&

.HUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
AL...WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES:
     COLBERT...CULLMAN...DEKALB...FRANKLIN AL...JACKSON...
     LAUDERDALE...LAWRENCE...LIMESTONE...MADISON...MARSHALL...
     MORGAN.

TN...WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES:
     FRANKLIN TN...LINCOLN...MOORE.
&&

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 26, 12:16 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 26, 1:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Huntsville, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 26, 11:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lauderdale	29 min
Oct 26, 11:29 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Colbert, Lauderdale	31 min
Oct 26, 12:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin	29 min
Oct 26, 12:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Franklin, Lawrence	31 min
Oct 26, 12:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Lawrence	35 min
Oct 26, 1:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Lawrence, Limestone, Morgan	26 min
Oct 26, 1:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Marshall	21 min
Oct 26, 1:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Limestone, Madison	32 min
Oct 26, 2:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Colbert, Franklin	29 min
Oct 26, 2:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Morgan	28 min
Oct 26, 2:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Franklin	37 min
Oct 26, 2:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Jackson, Madison	34 min
Oct 26, 2:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Madison, Marshall, Morgan	29 min
Oct 26, 2:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Jackson, Madison, Morgan	33 min
Oct 26, 2:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lawrence	30 min
Oct 26, 2:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Cullman	41 min
Oct 26, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Lawrence, Limestone, Morgan	30 min
Oct 26, 3:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	DeKalb	41 min
Oct 26, 3:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Jackson	32 min
Oct 26, 3:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Cullman	21 min
Oct 26, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Limestone, Madison	48 min
Oct 26, 3:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Limestone, Madison, Morgan	31 min
Oct 26, 3:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Cullman	32 min
Oct 26, 3:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Marshall	28 min
Oct 26, 3:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Morgan	37 min
Oct 26, 3:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Madison	35 min
Oct 26, 4:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Marshall	47 min
Oct 26, 4:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Jackson, Madison	32 min
Oct 26, 4:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Madison, Morgan	24 min
Oct 26, 4:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Jackson	36 min
Oct 26, 4:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	DeKalb	18 min
Oct 26, 5:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson, Marshall	24 min
Oct 26, 5:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Cullman	23 min
Oct 26, 5:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Cullman, Morgan	35 min
Oct 26, 5:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson, Marshall	51 min
Oct 26, 6:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Marshall	32 min
Oct 26, 6:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Marshall	27 min
Oct 26, 6:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	DeKalb	31 min
Oct 26, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson, Marshall	23 min
Oct 26, 6:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	DeKalb	32 min
Oct 26, 3:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lincoln, Moore	24 min
Oct 26, 3:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Lincoln, Moore	33 min
Oct 26, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Franklin, Lincoln, Moore	30 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.