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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Huntsville, AL

March 13, 2025Franklin County, Lawrence County, Alabama

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 13, 2025, 4:22 PM CDT for Franklin County, Lawrence County, Alabama. It was in force for 53 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 13, 2025, 4:22 PM CDT (21:22 UTC)
Expired: Mar 13, 2025, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Huntsville, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Franklin County, AL, Lawrence County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 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 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 204 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: 33 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -304 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1583 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 163 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 13, 2:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Colbert	49 min
Mar 13, 3:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin	44 min
Mar 13, 3:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Colbert	49 min
Mar 13, 3:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lauderdale	47 min
Mar 13, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Franklin	59 min
Mar 13, 3:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lauderdale	64 min
Mar 13, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	HUN	Franklin	26 min
Mar 13, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone	26 min
Mar 13, 4:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lawrence	43 min
Mar 13, 4:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Limestone	51 min
Mar 13, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Franklin, Lawrence	34 min
Mar 13, 5:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lawrence	46 min
Mar 13, 3:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin	41 min
Mar 13, 5:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin	47 min
Mar 13, 5:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin	45 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.