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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Huntsville, AL

March 9, 2026Franklin County, Alabama

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this flash flood warning at Mar 9, 2026, 5:11 PM CDT for Franklin 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
Mar 9, 2026, 5:11 PM CDT (22:11 UTC)
Expired
Mar 9, 2026, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Huntsville, AL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Franklin County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 219 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2026-03-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2026-03-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 96 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1204 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
90 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 8, 10:05 PM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryHUNColbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more12 hr
Mar 9, 4:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNLauderdale, Limestone39 min
Mar 9, 4:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNFranklin44 min
Mar 9, 4:36 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNLimestone, Madison39 min
Mar 9, 4:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHUNColbert, Franklin, Lawrence52 min
Mar 9, 5:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNLimestone, Madison45 min
Mar 9, 5:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNMadison45 min
Mar 9, 5:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNWinston41 min
Mar 9, 5:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHUNJackson, Madison, Marshall27 min
Mar 9, 6:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNJackson, Madison39 min
Mar 9, 6:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNDeKalb40 min
Mar 9, 6:47 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNMarshall43 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.