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Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 25, 2014, 7:34 PM CDT for Cullman County, Alabama. It was in force for 3 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 25, 2014, 7:34 PM CDT (00:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2014, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Cullman County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:37 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 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 543 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1443 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 25, 6:37 PM CDT, 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 6:37 PM CDT, 57 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 1245 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2014 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-261000- LAUDERDALE-COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-MADISON-MORGAN- MARSHALL-JACKSON-DEKALB-CULLMAN-MOORE-LINCOLN-FRANKLIN TN- 1245 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. EXPECT WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH...LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WITH A FEW OF THE STORMS. ISOLATED STORMS WILL REMAIN A POSSIBILITY OVERNIGHT AS ANOTHER UPPER AIR DISTURBANCE APPROACHES FROM THE WEST. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH... LIGHTNING...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS WITH STRONGER STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE WILL INCREASE ONCE AGAIN FROM THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...AS A COUPLE OF WEAK UPPER AIR DISTURBANCES IMPACT THE REGION. THE TRANSITION TO A MORE TYPICAL SUMMER PATTERN OF ISOLATED AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING STORMS WILL OCCUR FROM SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. GUSTY WINDS...LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL REMAIN THE GREATEST THREATS WITH THIS ACTIVITY. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. TT
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 1:48 PM CDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Huntsville, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 7:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Cullman | 50 min |
| Jun 25, 11:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Colbert | 57 min |
| Jun 26, 12:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Lawrence | 46 min |
| Jun 26, 10:40 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Cullman | 35 min |
| Jun 26, 11:30 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Cullman | 45 min |
| Jun 26, 12:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Cullman | 3 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.