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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 28, 2016, 5:39 PM CST for Lauderdale County, Alabama. It was in force for 36 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
- Dec 28, 2016, 5:39 PM CST (23:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 28, 2016, 6:15 PM CST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Lauderdale County, AL
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2177 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 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 Dec 28, 4:02 PM CST, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 28, 4:02 PM CST, 1 hour 37 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 28, 11:23 AM CST, 6 hours 16 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 1123 AM CST WED DEC 28 2016 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-290615- LAUDERDALE-COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-MADISON-MORGAN- MARSHALL-JACKSON-DE KALB-CULLMAN-MOORE-LINCOLN-FRANKLIN TN- 1123 AM CST WED DEC 28 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES THE TENNESSEE VALLEY FROM THE WEST. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE...ESPECIALLY OVER NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA. DAMAGING WIND GUSTS OVER 60 MPH...BRIEF TORNADOES... HEAVY RAINFALL...AND SMALL HAIL ARE THE PRIMARY IMPACTS FROM THE STRONGER STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... A THREAT FOR THUNDERSTORMS FROM THIS PARTICULAR SYSTEM SHOULD END DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS ON THURSDAY. AN ADDITIONAL CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS IS FORECAST ON SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT AS ANOTHER FRONTAL SYSTEM APPROACHES THE REGION. THE PRIMARY IMPACT WILL BE GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH AND HEAVY RAINFALL. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING AND INTO THE LATE NIGHT.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Dec 28, 5:11 PM CST, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 28, 3:05 PM CST | Wind Advisory | HUN | DeKalb, Jackson, Madison, Marshall | 30 hr |
| Dec 28, 5:11 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Lauderdale | 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.