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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 13, 2014, 4:26 PM CDT for Cullman County, Marshall County, Morgan County, Alabama. It was in force for 34 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 13, 2014, 4:26 PM CDT (21:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2014, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cullman County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Morgan County, AL
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:26 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
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 Oct 12, 6:05 PM CDT, 22 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 12, 6:05 PM CDT, 22 hours 21 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Huntsville, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 7:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | DeKalb | 30 min |
| Oct 12, 7:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | DeKalb | 40 min |
| Oct 12, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb, Jackson | 27 min |
| Oct 12, 9:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Cullman | 4 hr |
| Oct 12, 10:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Lauderdale | 28 min |
| Oct 12, 11:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Lauderdale | 28 min |
| Oct 13, 12:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Colbert | 41 min |
| Oct 13, 12:55 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | HUN | Cullman | 6 hr |
| Oct 13, 1:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale | 40 min |
| Oct 13, 2:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 3:54 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Franklin | 36 min |
| Oct 13, 4:27 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | HUN | Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more | 17 hr |
| Oct 13, 4:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | HUN | Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more | 23 hr |
| Oct 13, 5:15 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman | 36 min |
| Oct 13, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin | 36 min |
| Oct 13, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Franklin, Lawrence | 24 min |
| Oct 13, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Limestone, Madison | 30 min |
| Oct 13, 4:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Franklin | 33 min |
| Oct 13, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lauderdale | 39 min |
| Oct 13, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone | 21 min |
| Oct 13, 4:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lauderdale | 34 min |
| Oct 13, 5:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Madison | 15 min |
| Oct 13, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Madison | 31 min |
| Oct 13, 5:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Limestone, Madison | 22 min |
| Oct 13, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Jackson | 15 min |
| Oct 13, 5:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Colbert, Lauderdale | 38 min |
| Oct 13, 2:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Lincoln | 41 min |
| Oct 13, 2:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Lincoln, Moore | 41 min |
| Oct 13, 5:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Moore | 44 min |
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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.