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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Huntsville, AL

January 1, 2022Madison County, Alabama

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jan 1, 2022, 9:42 PM CST for Madison County, Alabama. It was in force for 3 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
Jan 1, 2022, 9:42 PM CST (03:42 UTC)
Expired
Jan 2, 2022, 12:45 AM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Huntsville, AL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Madison County, AL

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 152 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2022-01-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2022-01-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -302 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
702 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
89 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-302 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-54 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 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 Jan 1, 8:48 PM CST, 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 1, 8:48 PM CST, 54 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 1, 9:05 PM CST, 37 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 1, 6:43 PM CST, 2 hours 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
643 PM CST SAT JAN 1 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0625 PM     TSTM WND DMG     HAZEL GREEN             34.92N 86.57W
01/01/2022                   MADISON            AL   PUBLIC

            TREE DOWN IN HAZEL GREEN VIA SOCIAL MEDIA.

&&

MA
Local storm report, Jan 1, 6:51 PM CST, 2 hours 51 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
651 PM CST SAT JAN 1 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0625 PM     TSTM WND DMG     HAZEL GREEN             34.92N 86.57W
01/01/2022                   MADISON            AL   EMERGENCY MNGR

            MULTIPLE REPORTS OF STORM DAMAGE IN HAZEL
            GREEN INCLUDING TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
            ALONG WITH STRUCTURAL DAMAGE.

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Local storm report, Jan 1, 7:02 PM CST, 2 hours 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
702 PM CST SAT JAN 1 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0625 PM     TSTM WND DMG     2 NNW HAZEL GREEN       34.95N 86.58W
01/01/2022                   MADISON            AL   EMERGENCY MNGR

            REPORTS OF MULTIPLE STRUCTURES DAMAGED NEAR
            THE INTERSECTION OF JANE AND CHARITY LANE IN
            NEW MARKET.

&&

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Local storm report, Jan 1, 7:55 PM CST, 1 hour 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
755 PM CST SAT JAN 1 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0625 PM     TSTM WND DMG     3 N HAZEL GREEN         34.97N 86.57W
01/01/2022                   MADISON            AL   EMERGENCY MNGR

            MAJOR DAMAGE REPORTED AT THE HIBBETTS AND
            VERIZON IN HAZEL GREEN.

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Local storm report, Jan 1, 8:13 PM CST, 1 hour 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
813 PM CST SAT JAN 1 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0800 PM     TSTM WND DMG     4 NNE SKYLINE           34.85N 86.10W
01/01/2022                   JACKSON            AL   EMERGENCY MNGR

            POWERLINES DOWN AND TREE ON FIRE IN THE 900
            BLOCK OF CR-144 IN HYTOP.

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Special weather statement, Jan 1, 9:00 PM CST, 42 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 1, 6:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHUNLimestone, Madison45 min
Jan 1, 6:28 PM CSTTornado WarningHUNMadison32 min
Jan 1, 6:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHUNLawrence, Limestone, Madison, Marshall, Morgan50 min
Jan 1, 7:20 PM CSTTornado WarningHUNLimestone, Madison, Morgan25 min
Jan 1, 7:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHUNJackson, Madison50 min
Jan 1, 8:17 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningHUNColbert, Lauderdale90 min
Jan 1, 8:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHUNDeKalb, Jackson50 min
Jan 1, 8:29 PM CSTTornado WarningHUNJackson31 min
Jan 1, 8:38 PM CSTTornado WarningHUNDeKalb, Jackson26 min
Jan 1, 9:00 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementHUNJackson45 min
Jan 1, 9:03 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningHUNMadison3 hr
Jan 1, 10:21 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementHUNJackson, Morgan39 min
Jan 1, 10:40 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningHUNJackson, Madison, Morgan2 hr
Jan 1, 11:29 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementHUNDeKalb31 min
Jan 2, 12:02 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningHUNMadison5 hr
Jan 2, 12:19 AM CSTSpecial Weather StatementHUNDeKalb, Marshall41 min
Jan 2, 12:22 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningHUNJackson, Madison3 hr
Jan 2, 1:11 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningHUNDeKalb3 hr
Jan 2, 3:27 AM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryHUNColbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more24 hr
Jan 2, 4:55 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningHUNMadison17 hr
Jan 2, 5:15 AM CSTAreal Flood WarningHUNMadison3 hr
Jan 2, 11:40 AM CSTAreal Flood WarningHUNDeKalb5 hr
Jan 2, 2:54 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningHUNJackson, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Morgan12 hr
Jan 1, 6:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHUNFranklin18 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.