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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Huntsville, AL

April 10, 2025Cullman County, Marshall County, Morgan County, Alabama

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 10, 2025, 6:41 PM CDT for Cullman County, Marshall County, Morgan County, Alabama. It was in force for 22 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: Apr 10, 2025, 6:41 PM CDT (23:41 UTC)
Expired: Apr 10, 2025, 7:03 PM CDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Huntsville, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Cullman County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Morgan County, AL

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:40 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
Apr 10, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 227 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1911 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Apr 10, 5:46 PM CDT, 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 10, 5:46 PM CDT, 55 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 10, 5:58 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 10, 6:08 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 10, 6:15 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 10, 6:16 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 10, 6:32 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 10, 6:35 PM CDT, 6 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
Apr 10, 2:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Jackson	53 min
Apr 10, 3:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Madison	37 min
Apr 10, 4:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Morgan	44 min
Apr 10, 4:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lawrence	27 min
Apr 10, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Morgan	13 min
Apr 10, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Jackson	5 min
Apr 10, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson, Madison, Marshall	48 min
Apr 10, 5:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Morgan	27 min
Apr 10, 5:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Limestone	34 min
Apr 10, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Limestone, Madison, Marshall, Morgan	58 min
Apr 10, 5:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lawrence	41 min
Apr 10, 5:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Limestone	22 min
Apr 10, 5:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Jackson	47 min
Apr 10, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lawrence, Morgan	15 min
Apr 10, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Marshall	42 min
Apr 10, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Jackson	52 min
Apr 10, 5:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Colbert	32 min
Apr 10, 6:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Limestone	52 min
Apr 10, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	HUN	DeKalb	30 min
Apr 10, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Cullman, Lawrence, Morgan	42 min
Apr 10, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	HUN	DeKalb, Marshall	35 min
Apr 10, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson, Madison, Marshall, Morgan	48 min
Apr 10, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Marshall, Morgan	17 min
Apr 10, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson, Madison	41 min
Apr 10, 2:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Moore	40 min
Apr 10, 2:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin	45 min
Apr 10, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Franklin	18 min
Apr 10, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Franklin	8 min
Apr 10, 3:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin	46 min
Apr 10, 4:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Marion	46 min
Apr 10, 5:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Franklin	45 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.