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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Huntsville, AL

July 9, 2026Lauderdale County, Alabama

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jul 9, 2026, 6:39 PM CDT for Lauderdale County, Alabama. It was in force for 111 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
Jul 9, 2026, 6:39 PM CDT (23:39 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 2026, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
111 min
Issued by
NWS Huntsville, AL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Lauderdale County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 167 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 2026-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 425 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2026-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 110 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
425 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
807 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.1

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Huntsville, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 1:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNMarshall52 min
Jul 9, 2:03 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNCullman27 min
Jul 9, 2:05 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNLauderdale40 min
Jul 9, 2:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNCullman25 min
Jul 9, 2:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNLawrence45 min
Jul 9, 2:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNDeKalb42 min
Jul 9, 3:18 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNLimestone27 min
Jul 9, 3:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNLimestone32 min
Jul 9, 4:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHUNLimestone, Madison56 min
Jul 9, 4:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNFranklin33 min
Jul 9, 4:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNMadison33 min
Jul 9, 5:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNJackson31 min
Jul 9, 5:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNDeKalb27 min
Jul 9, 6:01 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNLauderdale29 min
Jul 9, 6:23 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNDeKalb37 min
Jul 9, 6:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNLauderdale27 min
Jul 9, 4:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNLincoln34 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.