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Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 8, 2022, 4:39 PM CDT for Colbert County, Franklin County, Alabama. It was in force for 5 hr. 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 8, 2022, 4:39 PM CDT (21:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2022, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Colbert County, AL, Franklin County, AL
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:40 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 1215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 513 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Jun 8, 3:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 3:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 3:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Huntsville AL 338 PM CDT Wed Jun 8 2022 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-091115- Lauderdale-Colbert-Franklin AL-Lawrence-Limestone-Madison-Morgan- Marshall-Jackson-DeKalb-Cullman-Moore-Lincoln-Franklin TN- 338 PM CDT Wed Jun 8 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for north central Alabama, northeast Alabama, northwest Alabama and southern middle Tennessee. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Showers and thunderstorms will redevelop across the region this afternoon and evening. Due to recent heavy rainfall and very wet soils in many areas, heavy rainfall from these thunderstorms may lead to flash flooding in some locations. Areas most prone to flash flooding will be in low-lying areas with poor drainage and in urban locations. Also, marginally severe hail and damaging winds could occur in the strongest thunderstorm activity. Thunderstorms should come to an end from northwest to southeast during the overnight period. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. Another broad complex of showers and thunderstorms may impact the region on Friday into Friday night. Strong wind gusts may occur with these thunderstorms. Hot weather will develop across the region next week, with heat index values reaching 100 to 105 degrees on Monday and Tuesday afternoons. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 2:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Huntsville AL
207 PM CDT Wed Jun 8 2022
ALZ004-007-016-081930-
Lawrence AL-Morgan AL-Cullman AL-
207 PM CDT Wed Jun 8 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern
Cullman, southwestern Morgan and southeastern Lawrence Counties
through 230 PM CDT...
At 206 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Moreland, moving northeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Eastern Bankhead National Forest.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
&&
LAT...LON 3430 8711 3430 8735 3445 8711 3426 8698
3423 8711
TIME...MOT...LOC 1906Z 243DEG 26KT 3423 8730
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
KTWThe office that day
Everything else NWS Huntsville, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 11:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin | 3 hr |
| Jun 7, 11:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Franklin | 49 min |
| Jun 8, 12:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Franklin, Lawrence | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 4:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Cullman | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 2:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Lawrence | 23 min |
| Jun 8, 4:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Franklin | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 4:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Jackson | 29 min |
| Jun 8, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin | 24 min |
| Jun 8, 5:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Jackson | 40 min |
| Jun 8, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence | 31 min |
| Jun 8, 5:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | DeKalb | 45 min |
| Jun 8, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence | 53 min |
| Jun 8, 6:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Morgan | 48 min |
| Jun 8, 6:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Franklin, Lawrence | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman, Marshall, Morgan | 24 min |
| Jun 8, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Franklin, Lawrence | 32 min |
| Jun 8, 6:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Cullman, Morgan | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 6:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Cullman, Marshall, Morgan | 44 min |
| Jun 8, 6:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Moore | 52 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.