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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Huntsville, AL

June 5, 2014Limestone County, Madison County, Alabama

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 5, 2014, 8:01 AM CDT for Limestone County, Madison County, Alabama. It was in force for 6 hr. 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 5, 2014, 8:01 AM CDT (13:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2014, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Huntsville, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:02 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, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 360 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -168 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 644 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 207 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.8

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Jun 5, 6:49 AM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 6:49 AM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 6:05 AM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 5, 6:13 AM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 7:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 7:13 AM CDT, 48 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 7:34 AM CDT, 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 5, 7:59 AM CDT, 2 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 5, 5:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Limestone, Madison	26 min
Jun 5, 6:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Madison	32 min
Jun 5, 7:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Jackson	30 min
Jun 5, 7:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Limestone, Madison	26 min
Jun 5, 7:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Madison, Morgan	31 min
Jun 5, 8:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Marshall	30 min
Jun 5, 8:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Marshall	33 min
Jun 5, 10:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Limestone	30 min
Jun 5, 10:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Madison	28 min
Jun 5, 3:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lauderdale	47 min
Jun 5, 3:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Jackson	28 min
Jun 5, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lauderdale	51 min
Jun 5, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Jackson, Marshall	36 min
Jun 5, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale	33 min
Jun 5, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone	26 min
Jun 5, 4:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	DeKalb	49 min
Jun 5, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone	35 min
Jun 5, 4:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	DeKalb	32 min
Jun 5, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	DeKalb	9 min
Jun 5, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Morgan	33 min
Jun 5, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Cullman, Jackson, Madison, Marshall, Morgan	30 min
Jun 5, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Cullman, DeKalb, Jackson, Madison, Marshall	33 min
Jun 5, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson	29 min
Jun 5, 1:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lincoln, Moore	38 min
Jun 5, 2:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lincoln, Moore	28 min
Jun 5, 2:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Franklin, Lincoln, Moore	21 min
Jun 5, 2:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin	33 min
Jun 5, 4:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lincoln	28 min
Jun 5, 5:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lincoln	25 min
Jun 5, 7:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Giles	32 min
Jun 5, 3:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lincoln, Moore	39 min
Jun 5, 3:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lincoln	27 min
Jun 5, 4:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lincoln	23 min
Jun 5, 4:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin, Lincoln	49 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Alabama, 2014 Every flash flood warning in 2014

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.