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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 216, NWS Huntsville, AL

June 24, 20114 counties in Alabama

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2011, 1:21 PM CDT for 4 counties in Alabama. It was in force for 39 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: Jun 24, 2011, 1:21 PM CDT (18:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2011, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Huntsville, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Colbert County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Morgan County, AL

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 166 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1692 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 755 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 24, 10:55 AM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 10:55 AM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 24, 4:14 AM CDT, 9 hours 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 24, 12:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 12:28 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 24, 1:05 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 1:06 PM CDT, 15 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
Jun 24, 12:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Limestone	32 min
Jun 24, 12:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lawrence, Limestone, Morgan	40 min
Jun 24, 12:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Lauderdale, Lawrence	52 min
Jun 24, 1:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Jackson	41 min
Jun 24, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Madison	47 min
Jun 24, 1:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Jackson	43 min
Jun 24, 2:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Morgan	45 min
Jun 24, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Morgan	30 min
Jun 24, 2:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence	23 min
Jun 24, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Cullman, Jackson, Madison, Marshall, Morgan	44 min
Jun 24, 2:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin	35 min
Jun 24, 2:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Jackson	33 min
Jun 24, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Franklin	27 min
Jun 24, 2:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lawrence	46 min
Jun 24, 3:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Jackson	18 min
Jun 24, 3:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin	27 min
Jun 24, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson, Marshall	38 min
Jun 24, 3:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lawrence	39 min
Jun 24, 3:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Morgan	36 min
Jun 24, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Cullman, Morgan	29 min
Jun 24, 4:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Cullman	23 min
Jun 24, 4:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Morgan	45 min
Jun 24, 4:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Marshall	28 min
Jun 24, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Cullman	36 min
Jun 24, 4:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin	31 min
Jun 24, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Marshall	27 min
Jun 24, 4:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Marshall	31 min
Jun 24, 5:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Cullman	30 min
Jun 24, 12:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin	34 min
Jun 24, 12:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Franklin, Moore	51 min
Jun 24, 1:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Moore	24 min
Jun 24, 1:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Franklin, Lincoln, Moore	51 min
Jun 24, 2:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Franklin	33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.