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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Huntsville, AL

June 21, 2014DeKalb County, Alabama

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2014, 3:53 PM CDT for DeKalb County, Alabama. It was in force for 37 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 21, 2014, 3:53 PM CDT (20:53 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 2014, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Huntsville, AL
Area
Storm-based polygon

County DeKalb County, AL

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 171 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2014-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 602 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2014-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
602 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1186 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 20, 6:30 PM CDT, 21 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 6:30 PM CDT, 21 hours 23 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Huntsville, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 11:08 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNJackson37 min
Jun 21, 2:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNDeKalb27 min
Jun 21, 3:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNDeKalb44 min
Jun 21, 4:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNLauderdale50 min
Jun 21, 5:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNLawrence31 min
Jun 21, 6:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNLawrence30 min
Jun 21, 5:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNFranklin24 min
Jun 21, 5:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNFranklin29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2014Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2014

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.