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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Huntsville, AL

March 14, 2024Franklin County, Alabama

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 2024, 7:07 PM CDT for Franklin County, Alabama. It was in force for 23 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: Mar 14, 2024, 7:07 PM CDT (00:07 UTC)
Expired: Mar 14, 2024, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Huntsville, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Franklin County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 171 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: 450 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1587 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.2

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 14, 6:34 PM CDT, 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 6:34 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 14, 7:02 PM CDT, 5 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
Mar 14, 7:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin	43 min
Mar 14, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Franklin	32 min
Mar 14, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Lauderdale	26 min
Mar 14, 8:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lauderdale	46 min
Mar 14, 8:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin	46 min
Mar 14, 9:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Colbert	30 min
Mar 14, 9:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Madison	24 min
Mar 14, 9:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lauderdale	44 min
Mar 14, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lauderdale	37 min
Mar 14, 10:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin, Lawrence	45 min
Mar 14, 10:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Limestone	35 min
Mar 14, 10:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence	26 min
Mar 14, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Madison	32 min
Mar 14, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lawrence, Morgan	31 min
Mar 14, 10:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Lawrence	28 min
Mar 14, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lawrence, Limestone, Morgan	31 min
Mar 14, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lawrence, Limestone	16 min
Mar 14, 11:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Madison	37 min
Mar 14, 11:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Limestone, Madison, Morgan	36 min
Mar 14, 11:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Jackson, Madison	24 min
Mar 15, 12:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Jackson, Madison	26 min
Mar 15, 12:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Jackson	16 min
Mar 15, 1:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Jackson	30 min
Mar 15, 4:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison	43 min
Mar 15, 4:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Morgan	45 min
Mar 15, 5:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Cullman, Jackson, Madison, Marshall, Morgan	44 min
Mar 15, 5:53 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Jackson	21 min
Mar 15, 6:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Cullman, DeKalb, Jackson, Madison, Marshall, Morgan	53 min
Mar 15, 6:52 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	DeKalb	23 min
Mar 15, 6:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	DeKalb	31 min
Mar 15, 7:32 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	HUN	Madison	15 hr
Mar 15, 8:51 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	HUN	Madison	25 hr
Mar 15, 8:57 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	HUN	Jackson, Madison, Marshall	14 hr
Mar 14, 11:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin	48 min
Mar 14, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lincoln, Moore	31 min
Mar 14, 11:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin	24 min
Mar 15, 12:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Moore	29 min
Mar 15, 12:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin	45 min
Mar 15, 4:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Franklin, Moore	25 min
Mar 15, 4:39 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Franklin	36 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.