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Special Weather Statement, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2011, 4:43 AM CDT for Cullman County, Alabama. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 2011, 4:43 AM CDT (09:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2011, 5:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
County Cullman County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 873 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1649 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 8, 3:01 AM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 3:01 AM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 8, 2:18 AM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Huntsville, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Franklin | 21 min |
| Aug 7, 7:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Cullman, Morgan | 40 min |
| Aug 7, 7:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Cullman | 40 min |
| Aug 7, 8:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Jackson | 52 min |
| Aug 7, 8:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Franklin | 49 min |
| Aug 8, 2:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Colbert | 57 min |
| Aug 8, 3:00 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | HUN | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence | 12 hr |
| Aug 8, 12:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Franklin, Lawrence | 46 min |
| Aug 8, 1:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Lauderdale | 45 min |
| Aug 8, 1:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Lawrence, Morgan | 39 min |
| Aug 8, 1:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lauderdale | 54 min |
| Aug 8, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman, Morgan | 64 min |
| Aug 8, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman, Lawrence, Morgan | 54 min |
| Aug 8, 2:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Limestone | 31 min |
| Aug 8, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Limestone, Morgan | 44 min |
| Aug 8, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone | 66 min |
| Aug 8, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Limestone, Madison | 62 min |
| Aug 8, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Madison, Marshall, Morgan | 53 min |
| Aug 8, 3:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lauderdale | 117 min |
| Aug 8, 3:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Cullman | 25 min |
| Aug 8, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Limestone, Madison | 58 min |
| Aug 8, 3:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Cullman, Marshall, Morgan | 118 min |
| Aug 8, 3:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Lauderdale, Limestone, Madison, Morgan | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Jackson, Madison | 56 min |
| Aug 8, 3:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Jackson, Madison, Marshall | 101 min |
| Aug 8, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb, Jackson | 65 min |
| Aug 8, 4:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | DeKalb, Jackson | 116 min |
| Aug 8, 4:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Cullman | 36 min |
| Aug 8, 5:29 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | HUN | Limestone, Madison, Morgan | 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.