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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Huntsville, AL

May 8, 2025Colbert County, Lauderdale County, Alabama

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2025, 6:02 PM CDT for Colbert County, Lauderdale County, Alabama. It was in force for 29 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: May 8, 2025, 6:02 PM CDT (23:02 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2025, 6:31 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Huntsville, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

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 23:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 8, 2:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 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-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: 684 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 596 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.6

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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 May 8, 3:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 3:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 8, 5:37 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 8, 5:46 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 8, 5:48 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Huntsville AL
548 PM CDT Thu May 8 2025

ALZ006-008-009-082330-
Marshall AL-Madison AL-Jackson AL-
548 PM CDT Thu May 8 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHERN MARSHALL...SOUTHWESTERN
JACKSON AND SOUTHEASTERN MADISON COUNTIES THROUGH 630 PM CDT...

At 548 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7
miles northeast of Arab, moving northeast at 15 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts 40 mph or greater and penny size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
         possible.

Locations impacted include...
Woodville, Grant, Union Grove, Columbus City, and Guntersville.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 1000 PM CDT for
north central and northeastern Alabama.

&&

LAT...LON 3431 8641 3439 8654 3468 8628 3448 8604
TIME...MOT...LOC 2248Z 229DEG 14KT 3441 8642

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

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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 7, 10:55 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	HUN	Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more	9 hr
May 8, 5:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lauderdale	53 min
May 8, 5:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Marshall	42 min
May 8, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Jackson, Marshall	32 min
May 8, 6:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Morgan	45 min
May 8, 6:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Marshall	49 min
May 8, 6:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lauderdale	45 min
May 8, 6:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	DeKalb	40 min
May 8, 6:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Marshall	50 min
May 8, 5:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lincoln	44 min
May 8, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lincoln, Moore	62 min
May 8, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lincoln, Moore	55 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.