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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Huntsville, AL

June 27, 2025Lauderdale County, Alabama

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 2025, 10:43 AM CDT for 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 27, 2025, 10:43 AM CDT (15:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2025, 1:33 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Huntsville, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Lauderdale County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:51 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 2306 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 841 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 Jun 26, 6:11 PM CDT, 16 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 6:11 PM CDT, 16 hours 32 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
Jun 26, 7:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Jackson	45 min
Jun 27, 10:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lauderdale	47 min
Jun 27, 10:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lauderdale	47 min
Jun 27, 11:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lauderdale	47 min
Jun 27, 11:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Lauderdale, Lawrence	30 min
Jun 27, 12:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lawrence	36 min
Jun 27, 12:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HUN	Colbert, Lauderdale, Lawrence	3 hr
Jun 27, 12:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Limestone	50 min
Jun 27, 12:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lawrence, Limestone, Morgan	28 min
Jun 27, 1:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	HUN	Lauderdale	3 hr
Jun 27, 1:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Madison	44 min
Jun 27, 2:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Jackson	56 min
Jun 27, 3:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Jackson	57 min
Jun 27, 3:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson	2 hr
Jun 27, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson	39 min
Jun 26, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Franklin	52 min
Jun 26, 7:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin	31 min
Jun 27, 1:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lincoln	15 min
Jun 27, 2:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Moore	31 min
Jun 27, 2:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin	38 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.