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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2014, 2:03 PM CDT for Franklin County, Tennessee. It was in force for 12 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 10, 2014, 2:03 PM CDT (19:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2014, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 12 min
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Franklin County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 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 10, 10:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 811 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 10, 1:55 PM CDT, 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 1:55 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 1130 AM CDT TUE JUN 10 2014 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-110200- LAUDERDALE-COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-MADISON-MORGAN- MARSHALL-JACKSON-DEKALB-CULLMAN-MOORE-LINCOLN-FRANKLIN TN- 1130 AM CDT TUE JUN 10 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT... THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP INTO THE AFTERNOON HOURS. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE STRONG TO SEVERE...PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAINFALL. HEAVY RAINFALL AND SATURATED SOILS COULD LEAD TO SOME FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY... PERIODS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH MID WEEK...AS A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL SYSTEMS ADVANCE FROM THE SOUTHERN PLAINS TO THE OHIO VALLEY. THIS MAY LEAD TO OCCURRENCES OF FLASH FLOODING THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. IN ADDITION...A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. A DRIER PERIOD IS EXPECTED TOWARD THE END OF THE WEEK...BEFORE ADDITIONAL DISTURBANCES RETURN A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE FORECAST OVER THE WEEKEND. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. TT
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 12:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 1246 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2014 ALZ009-101815- JACKSON AL- 1246 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2014 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WESTERN JACKSON COUNTY UNTIL 115 PM CDT... AT 1246 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER WOODVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. PENNY SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SCOTTSBORO...HOLLYWOOD...SKYLINE...WOODVILLE...PLEASANT GROVES...LIM ROCK...LARKINSVILLE AND TRENTON. THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3460 8623 3460 8632 3486 8621 3474 8594 TIME...MOT...LOC 1746Z 215DEG 28KT 3462 8625 BCC
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 1:15 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
115 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2014
ALZ010-101845-
DE KALB AL-
115 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL DE KALB COUNTY UNTIL 145
PM CDT...
AT 114 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
GERALDINE...OR 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RAINSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
40 MPH.
PENNY SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
FORT PAYNE...RAINSVILLE...HENAGAR...COLLINSVILLE...SYLVANIA...
FYFFE...POWELL...GERALDINE...VALLEY HEAD AND HAMMONDVILLE.
THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
LAT...LON 3426 8587 3436 8606 3453 8593 3463 8578
3468 8574 3458 8556
TIME...MOT...LOC 1814Z 213DEG 33KT 3437 8592
KDWSpecial weather statement, Jun 10, 1:18 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
118 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2014
ALZ006-009-101900-
MADISON AL-JACKSON AL-
118 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN MADISON AND
NORTHWESTERN JACKSON COUNTIES UNTIL 200 PM CDT...
AT 118 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
GURLEY...OR 15 MILES EAST OF HUNTSVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.
PENNY SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
OWENS CROSS ROADS...SKYLINE...GURLEY...WOODVILLE...PLEASANT GROVES...
HYTOP...PAINT ROCK...HOLLYTREE...PRINCETON AND JERICHO.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY
LEAD TO MINOR FLOODING ON ROADS AND IN LOW LYING AREAS. DO NOT DRIVE
YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 3460 8624 3460 8631 3458 8630 3458 8631
3462 8646 3499 8634 3499 8601
TIME...MOT...LOC 1818Z 200DEG 26KT 3466 8633
BCC/12Local storm report, Jun 10, 1:35 PM CDT, 28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 7:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Colbert, Franklin | 50 min |
| Jun 9, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lauderdale | 36 min |
| Jun 9, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin | 32 min |
| Jun 9, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Franklin | 28 min |
| Jun 9, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence | 26 min |
| Jun 9, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Cullman, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Morgan | 30 min |
| Jun 9, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman, Limestone, Madison, Marshall, Morgan | 31 min |
| Jun 9, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Jackson, Madison, Marshall, Morgan | 30 min |
| Jun 9, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman | 28 min |
| Jun 9, 10:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | DeKalb, Jackson, Marshall | 43 min |
| Jun 9, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Jackson | 29 min |
| Jun 9, 11:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | DeKalb | 27 min |
| Jun 9, 11:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | DeKalb | 30 min |
| Jun 10, 7:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Lawrence | 33 min |
| Jun 10, 11:19 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Lawrence | 41 min |
| Jun 10, 11:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Cullman, Morgan | 38 min |
| Jun 10, 12:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Cullman, Morgan | 27 min |
| Jun 10, 12:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman, Morgan | 23 min |
| Jun 10, 12:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Madison | 16 min |
| Jun 10, 12:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Cullman | 36 min |
| Jun 10, 12:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Jackson | 29 min |
| Jun 10, 1:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | DeKalb | 30 min |
| Jun 10, 1:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Jackson | 42 min |
| Jun 10, 1:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb | 49 min |
| Jun 10, 1:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Jackson | 40 min |
| Jun 10, 2:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Jackson | 21 min |
| Jun 10, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Jackson | 15 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.