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Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Huntsville, AL

June 17, 2025Colbert County, Lauderdale County, Alabama

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 17, 2025, 8:05 PM CDT for Colbert County, Lauderdale 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
Jun 17, 2025, 8:05 PM CDT (01:05 UTC)
Expired
Jun 17, 2025, 11:01 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Huntsville, AL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Colbert County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:06 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 180 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2025-06-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 454 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2025-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
454 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
720 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 7:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNColbert50 min
Jun 17, 11:01 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningHUNColbert, Lauderdale3 hr
Jun 18, 1:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNMadison66 min
Jun 18, 1:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNJackson27 min
Jun 18, 2:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNDeKalb, Jackson45 min
Jun 18, 2:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNMarshall44 min
Jun 18, 2:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNDeKalb48 min
Jun 18, 3:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNDeKalb48 min
Jun 18, 3:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNColbert, Franklin49 min
Jun 18, 4:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNLawrence44 min
Jun 18, 4:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNMadison, Morgan42 min
Jun 18, 5:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHUNColbert, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison40 min
Jun 18, 5:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNLimestone, Morgan50 min
Jun 18, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHUNLawrence, Limestone, Madison35 min
Jun 18, 6:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNLincoln30 min

Nearby

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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.