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Special Weather Statement, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this special weather statement at Jun 13, 2021, 11:52 AM CDT for Franklin County, Alabama. It was in force for 53 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 13, 2021, 11:52 AM CDT (16:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2021, 12:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
County Franklin County, AL
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 3480 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 972 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
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The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 12, 6:53 PM CDT, 16 hours 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 6:53 PM CDT, 16 hours 59 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Huntsville AL 245 PM CDT Sat Jun 12 2021 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-131100- Lauderdale-Colbert-Franklin AL-Lawrence-Limestone-Madison-Morgan- Marshall-Jackson-DeKalb-Cullman-Moore-Lincoln-Franklin TN- 245 PM CDT Sat Jun 12 2021 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for north Alabama and portions of southern middle Tennessee. .DAY ONE...Tonight... A few strong to marginally severe storms will be possible into the early evening with locally damaging wind gusts possible. These storms will also produce heavy rainfall with localized flash flooding possible. Patchy dense fog may develop later tonight, especially in areas that received heavy rainfall today. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday... A few strong to marginally severe thunderstorms are possible again on Sunday. Some of these thunderstorms may be capable of producing damaging wind gusts. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Activation of storm spotters and emergency management personnel is not anticipated at this time.
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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.