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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Huntsville, AL

May 9, 20247 counties in Alabama

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this flash flood warning at May 9, 2024, 8:53 AM CDT for 7 counties in 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: May 9, 2024, 8:53 AM CDT (13:53 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2024, 12:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Huntsville, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Cullman County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Morgan County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 154 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1618 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 619 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 178 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 210 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.6
Supercell composite: 10.4

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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 May 9, 6:47 AM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 9, 6:47 AM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 9, 7:33 AM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 9, 7:37 AM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 9, 8:28 AM CDT, 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 9, 8:29 AM CDT, 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 9, 8:37 AM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 9, 8:47 AM CDT, 6 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 7:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lauderdale	22 min
May 8, 7:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lauderdale	27 min
May 8, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Jackson, Madison	45 min
May 8, 7:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lauderdale	42 min
May 8, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone	39 min
May 8, 7:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lawrence	38 min
May 8, 7:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson	67 min
May 8, 7:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Lauderdale, Limestone	31 min
May 8, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Lawrence	30 min
May 8, 7:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson	38 min
May 8, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lawrence, Limestone, Morgan	50 min
May 8, 8:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone	41 min
May 8, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Jackson	51 min
May 8, 8:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Limestone, Madison	35 min
May 8, 8:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Lawrence, Limestone	28 min
May 8, 8:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Madison	49 min
May 8, 8:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	HUN	Limestone	31 min
May 8, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson	56 min
May 8, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	HUN	DeKalb	16 min
May 8, 8:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Limestone, Madison	31 min
May 8, 8:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Jackson	29 min
May 8, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	HUN	Lauderdale, Limestone	57 min
May 8, 8:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson	39 min
May 8, 8:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Limestone, Madison	38 min
May 8, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	DeKalb	22 min
May 8, 9:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	DeKalb	12 min
May 8, 9:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Jackson, Madison	54 min
May 8, 9:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	HUN	Jackson, Madison	48 min
May 8, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson	45 min
May 8, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Madison	41 min
May 8, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Limestone	52 min
May 8, 9:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Jackson	22 min
May 8, 9:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Limestone, Madison	51 min
May 8, 10:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Jackson	43 min
May 8, 10:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson	17 min
May 8, 10:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Madison	41 min
May 8, 10:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson	48 min
May 8, 10:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HUN	Jackson, Limestone, Madison	3 hr
May 8, 11:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	HUN	Jackson, Madison	43 min
May 8, 11:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	HUN	DeKalb	20 min
May 8, 11:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson	40 min
May 9, 12:08 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	DeKalb	32 min
May 9, 12:20 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson	3 hr
May 9, 3:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Madison	49 min
May 9, 3:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Limestone	42 min
May 9, 3:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	DeKalb	39 min
May 9, 4:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Jackson, Madison	46 min
May 9, 4:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Madison	44 min
May 9, 4:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Jackson	49 min
May 9, 5:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson	26 min
May 9, 5:32 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	HUN	Madison	9 hr
May 9, 6:06 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HUN	Madison	6 hr
May 9, 6:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Colbert, Lawrence	41 min
May 9, 6:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence	41 min
May 9, 7:00 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HUN	Colbert, Lauderdale	3 hr
May 9, 7:15 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	HUN	Madison	22 hr
May 9, 7:19 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	HUN	Jackson, Madison, Marshall	54 hr
May 9, 7:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Cullman, Jackson, Madison, Morgan	42 min
May 9, 7:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Jackson	23 min
May 9, 7:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Cullman	41 min
May 9, 8:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Cullman, DeKalb, Jackson, Marshall, Morgan	26 min
May 9, 8:08 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson	27 min
May 9, 8:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Marshall	20 min
May 9, 8:34 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson	116 min
May 9, 3:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	HUN	Madison	10 hr
May 8, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lincoln	31 min
May 8, 7:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Lincoln, Moore	38 min
May 8, 7:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	HUN	Lincoln	33 min
May 8, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Franklin, Lincoln, Moore	47 min
May 8, 10:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Franklin, Lincoln, Moore	44 min
May 8, 10:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HUN	Franklin, Lincoln, Moore	3 hr
May 8, 11:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Moore	52 min
May 9, 3:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lincoln, Moore	44 min
May 9, 4:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin	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.