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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 5, 2025, 8:00 PM CDT for Lauderdale County, Alabama. It was in force for 30 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 5, 2025, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2025, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
County Lauderdale County, AL
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:00 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 5, 1:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 208 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 291 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1358 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Apr 5, 5:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 5, 5:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Huntsville, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lauderdale | 63 min |
| Apr 5, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale | 65 min |
| Apr 5, 9:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale | 39 min |
| Apr 5, 10:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone | 49 min |
| Apr 5, 10:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Lauderdale, Limestone | 46 min |
| Apr 5, 11:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Limestone, Madison | 61 min |
| Apr 6, 12:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Limestone, Madison, Morgan | 57 min |
| Apr 6, 12:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Jackson, Limestone, Madison, Marshall, Morgan | 56 min |
| Apr 6, 12:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence | 7 hr |
| Apr 6, 1:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb, Jackson, Madison | 56 min |
| Apr 6, 1:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | DeKalb, Jackson, Madison, Marshall | 18 min |
| Apr 6, 1:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman, DeKalb, Jackson, Madison, Marshall, Morgan | 52 min |
| Apr 6, 1:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman | 53 min |
| Apr 6, 1:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb, Jackson | 51 min |
| Apr 6, 2:01 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | DeKalb, Jackson | 18 min |
| Apr 6, 2:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman, DeKalb, Jackson, Marshall | 53 min |
| Apr 6, 2:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman | 50 min |
| Apr 6, 3:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Cullman, DeKalb, Jackson, Madison, Marshall, Morgan | 5 hr |
| Apr 6, 3:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Cullman | 59 min |
| Apr 6, 3:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Morgan | 4 hr |
| Apr 6, 7:57 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | HUN | Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 6, 1:59 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | HUN | Cullman, DeKalb, Jackson, Marshall | 5 hr |
| Apr 6, 2:44 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | HUN | Madison | 4 hr |
| Apr 5, 8:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Lincoln, Moore | 39 min |
| Apr 6, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Franklin, Lincoln, Moore | 59 min |
| Apr 6, 12:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Franklin | 9 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.