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Special Weather Statement, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this special weather statement at Jun 30, 2014, 12:08 PM CDT for Marshall 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 30, 2014, 12:08 PM CDT (17:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2014, 12:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
County Marshall County, AL
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 1656 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 848 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
890
WWUS84 KHUN 301708
SPSHUN
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
1208 PM CDT MON JUN 30 2014
ALZ008-301745-
MARSHALL AL-
1208 PM CDT MON JUN 30 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL MARSHALL COUNTY UNTIL
1245 PM CDT...
AT 1207 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
GUNTERSVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ALBERTVILLE...BOAZ...GUNTERSVILLE...ARAB...UNION GROVE...LAKE
GUNTERSVILLE ST PARK...HIGH POINT...HUSTLEVILLE...MCVILLE AND HYATT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL BE CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN SMALL TREE
LIMBS...ALONG WITH OTHER SMALL UNSECURED ITEMS. SEEK SAFE SHELTER
UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.
&&
LAT...LON 3436 8650 3450 8636 3436 8611 3421 8611
3418 8614 3418 8619 3414 8625
TIME...MOT...LOC 1707Z 310DEG 13KT 3438 8637
$$
RSBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Huntsville, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 10:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | DeKalb | 44 min |
| Jun 30, 4:23 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Jackson | 37 min |
| Jun 30, 4:59 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Jackson | 46 min |
| Jun 30, 12:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Jackson | 46 min |
| Jun 30, 1:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Jackson | 41 min |
| Jun 30, 2:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Jackson | 43 min |
| Jun 30, 2:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | DeKalb | 33 min |
| Jun 30, 2:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | DeKalb | 29 min |
| Jun 30, 12:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Lincoln, Moore | 49 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.