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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 115, NWS Huntsville, AL

July 1, 2017Cullman County, Morgan County, Alabama

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2017, 3:55 PM CDT for Cullman County, Morgan County, Alabama. It was in force for 17 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
Jul 1, 2017, 3:55 PM CDT (20:55 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 2017, 4:12 PM CDT
In force
17 min
Issued by
NWS Huntsville, AL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.88 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Cullman County, AL, Morgan County, AL

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 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

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 124 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2017-07-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1392 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2017-07-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 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
1392 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
493 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 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 30, 6:37 PM CDT, 21 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 6:37 PM CDT, 21 hours 18 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 1, 2:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchHUNCullman, DeKalb, Jackson, Marshall, Morgan16 hr
Jul 1, 3:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNCullman40 min
Jul 1, 1:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNFranklin27 min
Jul 1, 2:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNFranklin45 min

Nearby

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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.