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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Huntsville, AL

June 22, 2020DeKalb County, Jackson County, Marshall County, Alabama

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2020, 5:11 PM CDT for DeKalb County, Jackson County, Marshall County, Alabama. It was in force for 34 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 22, 2020, 5:11 PM CDT (22:11 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 2020, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Huntsville, AL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties DeKalb County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Marshall County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 166 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 2020-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 132 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 2020-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 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
132 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-148 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1277 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
96 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 21, 6:04 PM CDT, 23 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 6:04 PM CDT, 23 hours 7 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 3:27 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNFranklin33 min
Jun 22, 3:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNCullman50 min
Jun 22, 3:54 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNLimestone51 min
Jun 22, 4:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNColbert, Franklin, Lawrence45 min
Jun 22, 4:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNLauderdale, Lawrence50 min
Jun 22, 4:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNMarshall29 min
Jun 22, 4:51 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNMorgan24 min
Jun 22, 5:27 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNLimestone, Madison48 min
Jun 22, 5:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNJackson33 min
Jun 22, 6:05 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNFranklin25 min
Jun 22, 6:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNFranklin23 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.