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Special Weather Statement, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this special weather statement at May 9, 2024, 7:37 AM CDT for Jackson 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 2024, 7:37 AM CDT (12:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2024, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Hail
- 0.25 in
- Wind
- 40
County Jackson County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1320 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
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NWS Huntsville, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at May 9, 6:47 AM CDT, 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 9, 6:47 AM CDT, 50 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 9, 3:51 AM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
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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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HUN | Jackson, Madison | 43 min |
| May 8, 11:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | 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, 7:49 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, 8:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Cullman, DeKalb, Jackson, Limestone, Madison, Marshall and 1 more | 3 hr |
| 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 | 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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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.