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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this flash flood warning at Sep 14, 2024, 6:08 AM CDT for Colbert County, Lauderdale County, Lawrence 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
- Sep 14, 2024, 6:08 AM CDT (11:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 14, 2024, 9:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Colbert County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Lawrence County, AL
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:10 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 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 774 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 706 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
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 Sep 13, 6:37 PM CDT, 11 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 13, 6:37 PM CDT, 11 hours 31 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Huntsville, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 7:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Cullman | 38 min |
| Sep 13, 8:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Cullman | 2 hr |
| Sep 13, 11:05 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | HUN | Cullman, Lawrence, Morgan | 5 hr |
| Sep 14, 7:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Cullman, Morgan | 3 hr |
| Sep 14, 7:37 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | HUN | Colbert, Cullman, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 14, 10:24 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | HUN | Lawrence | 3 days |
| Sep 14, 6:48 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lauderdale, Lawrence | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Alabama, 2024Every flash flood warning in 2024
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.