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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 16, 2023, 2:32 PM CST for Lauderdale County, Alabama. It was in force for 28 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
- Feb 16, 2023, 2:32 PM CST (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2023, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
County Lauderdale County, AL
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:36 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 12:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 546 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 411 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 528 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Feb 16, 12:10 PM CST, 2 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 16, 12:10 PM CST, 2 hours 22 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Huntsville, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 10:17 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Madison | 28 min |
| Feb 15, 10:43 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Jackson | 32 min |
| Feb 15, 11:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Jackson | 23 min |
| Feb 16, 12:53 PM CST | River Flood Warning | HUN | Jackson, Madison, Marshall | 72 hr |
| Feb 16, 12:55 PM CST | River Flood Warning | HUN | Madison | 30 hr |
| Feb 16, 3:00 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Lauderdale | 45 min |
| Feb 16, 3:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lauderdale | 13 min |
| Feb 16, 3:29 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Lauderdale | 46 min |
| Feb 16, 4:10 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Colbert, Lauderdale | 50 min |
| Feb 16, 4:55 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Limestone | 35 min |
| Feb 16, 5:26 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lauderdale | 4 hr |
| Feb 16, 5:32 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Limestone | 43 min |
| Feb 16, 5:49 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Cullman | 41 min |
| Feb 16, 5:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Franklin, Lawrence | 3 hr |
| Feb 16, 5:10 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Moore | 50 min |
| Feb 16, 5:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lincoln | 46 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.