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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2014, 1:20 PM CDT for Limestone County, Madison County, Morgan County, Alabama. It was in force for 25 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 6, 2014, 1:20 PM CDT (18:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2014, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Morgan County, AL
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 71 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 11:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 490 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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 6, 12:44 PM CDT, 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 12:44 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 1244 PM CDT FRI JUN 6 2014 .UPDATE... FOR 18Z TAFS && .DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 1050 AM CDT FRI JUN 6 2014/ ANOTHER DAY...AND MORE CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING. ALOFT...A WNW-ESE MID/UPPER FLOW REGIME WAS PRESENT ACROSS THE EASTERN CONUS. AT THE SURFACE...A WEAK STATIONARY BOUNDARY EXTENDED WEST-EAST FROM NE OKLAHOMA TO NEAR MEMPHIS...NORTH OF LYNCHBURG AND CHATTANOOGA...TO THE COASTAL CAROLINAS. THE ABOVE NOTED FRONT BOUNDARY HAD SAGGED A BIT MORE TO THE SOUTH THAN IT WAS AT THIS TIME YESTERDAY. THE UPPER FLOW WAS BRINGING A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES ACROSS THE AREA. ONE OF THOSE DISTURBANCES WAS RESULTING IN A THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX MOVING IN A WNW-ESE FASHION ACROSS OUR MIDDLE TENNESSEE COUNTIES. OTHER MORE ISOLATED/WEAKER CONVECTION HAD FORMED EAST OF I-65... NOW MOVING ACROSS NE ALABAMA. A LARGE THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX NOW MOVING ACROSS OKLAHOMA SHOULD CONTINUE ITS MOVEMENT GENERALLY ALONG THE ABOVE NOTED BOUNDARY. TIMING FROM LAST NIGHTS MESOSCALE MODELS...AND THE NEW NAM BRING THIS SYSTEM...AND/OR DEVELOPMENT THAT OCCURS EAST OF IT ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SUCH WAS THE CASE WAS YESTERDAY...ANOTHER BOUT OF STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS IS A POSSIBILITY. EXPECTED STORM STRENGTH TODAY DOES NOT LOOK AS ROBUST AS WAS THE CASE YESTERDAY. THE MAIN THREATS FROM THE STRONGER STORMS TODAY WILL BE STRONG TO DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. THE STORMS PER NEW GUIDANCE APPEARS WILL TRACK/AFFECT AREAS A BIT FURTHER TO THE SOUTH THAN YESTERDAYS ACTIVITY. THAT BEING SAID... WILL KEEP LIKELY POPS THIS AFTERNOON GIVEN VARIANCE IN POSSIBLE STORM COVERAGE. RSB && .AVIATION... FOR 18Z TAFS... UNSETTLED WEATHER WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE REGION INTO THE EVENING AS PASSING UPPER DISTURBANCES...ALONG WITH UNSTABLE CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE SHOWER/THUNDERSTORM CHANCES. THE MOST NUMEROUS CONVECTION IS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING...WITH BOTH TERMINALS SUBJECT TO ERRATIC/GUSTY WINDS AND MVFR (POSSIBLY LOWER) CIG/VIS. SHOWER ACTIVITY SHOULD DIMINISH THIS EVENING...WITH VFR WEATHER INTO LATE NIGHT. MVFR FOG/MIST IS POSSIBLE AROUND DAYBREAK SAT...WITH MORE CONVECTION AGAIN TOWARD THE END OF THE TAF. RSB && .HUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...NONE. TN...NONE. && FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WEATHER.GOV/HUNTSVILLE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 6, 8:00 AM CDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 800 AM CDT FRI JUN 6 2014 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-071015- LAUDERDALE-COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-MADISON-MORGAN- MARSHALL-JACKSON-DEKALB-CULLMAN-MOORE-LINCOLN-FRANKLIN TN- 800 AM CDT FRI JUN 6 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... MORE WIDESPREAD STORMS WILL REDEVELOP AND PERSIST THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON HOURS...MAINLY IN NORTHERN ALABAMA. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THIS ACTIVITY WILL TAPER OFF DURING THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE SATURDAY BEFORE DISSIPATING SATURDAY NIGHT. A MORE ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN WILL DEVELOP ONCE AGAIN ON SUNDAY...WITH SEVERAL ADDITIONAL ROUNDS OF STORMS EXPECTED EARLY NEXT WEEK. STRONG TO LOCALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE DURING THIS PERIOD AS WELL. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL MAY BE POSSIBLE LATER THIS AFTERNOON. KTW
In the hours before
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PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
112 PM CDT FRI JUN 06 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1145 AM TSTM WND DMG 2 NNW IDER 34.72N 85.68W
06/06/2014 DEKALB AL EMERGENCY MNGR
TREE DOWN NEAR INTERSECTION OF COUNTY ROAD 121 AND
COUNTRY LANE NEAR IDER. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR.
1153 AM TSTM WND DMG 3 NNE HAMMONDVILLE 34.63N 85.61W
06/06/2014 DEKALB AL EMERGENCY MNGR
TREE DOWN NEAR INTERSECTION OF U.S. 11 AND CR 239 NORTH
OF HAMMONDVILLE. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR.
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BCCThe office that day
Everything else NWS Huntsville, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 4:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Lauderdale | 46 min |
| Jun 6, 10:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Jackson | 50 min |
| Jun 6, 12:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Limestone | 26 min |
| Jun 6, 12:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | DeKalb | 9 min |
| Jun 6, 12:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Limestone | 38 min |
| Jun 6, 12:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Lawrence | 51 min |
| Jun 6, 1:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Marshall, Morgan | 45 min |
| Jun 6, 1:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Lawrence | 24 min |
| Jun 6, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman, Marshall, Morgan | 28 min |
| Jun 6, 2:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Marshall | 52 min |
| Jun 6, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman | 32 min |
| Jun 6, 2:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Marshall | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 2:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Franklin | 52 min |
| Jun 6, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Franklin | 30 min |
| Jun 6, 3:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Franklin | 43 min |
| Jun 6, 3:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Franklin | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 3:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Cullman | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 3:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Colbert | 34 min |
| Jun 6, 3:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | HUN | Colbert, Cullman, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone and 1 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 6, 3:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Cullman | 26 min |
| Jun 6, 4:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Colbert, Lauderdale | 48 min |
| Jun 6, 4:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Lawrence | 45 min |
| Jun 6, 4:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Morgan | 30 min |
| Jun 6, 4:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Cullman | 23 min |
| Jun 6, 4:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Lauderdale | 32 min |
| Jun 6, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lauderdale | 25 min |
| Jun 6, 5:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Limestone | 36 min |
| Jun 6, 5:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Limestone | 35 min |
| Jun 6, 6:19 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | HUN | Franklin | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 6:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Madison | 28 min |
| Jun 6, 10:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Franklin, Lincoln, Moore | 47 min |
| Jun 6, 12:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Lincoln | 29 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.