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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2014, 5:05 PM CDT for Lauderdale 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, 5:05 PM CDT (22:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2014, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Lauderdale County, AL
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 167 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, 4:41 PM CDT, 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 4:41 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 132 PM CDT FRI JUN 6 2014 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-070200- LAUDERDALE-COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-MADISON-MORGAN- MARSHALL-JACKSON-DEKALB-CULLMAN-MOORE-LINCOLN-FRANKLIN TN- 132 PM 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 PERSIST THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS...MAINLY IN NORTH ALABAMA. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... A STALLED COLD FRONT WILL KEEP SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE FORECAST THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK. STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS REMAIN POSSIBLE DURING THIS PERIOD...WITH THE PRIMARY THREATS BEING GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. STORMS WILL BECOME MORE ORGANIZED AS ANOTHER FRONT SLOWLY MOVES ACROSS THE REGION AROUND THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS REQUESTED THROUGH THIS EVENING. BCC
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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 3:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
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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, 1:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Limestone, Madison, Morgan | 25 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, 5:24 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.