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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Huntsville, AL

August 26, 2026Lawrence County, Alabama

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this flash flood warning at Aug 26, 2026, 1:54 PM CDT for Lawrence 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
Aug 26, 2026, 1:54 PM CDT (18:54 UTC)
Expired
Aug 26, 2026, 4:25 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Huntsville, AL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Lawrence County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 157 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2026-08-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 374 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2026-08-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 50 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
374 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-113 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1336 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
61 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
Aug 26, 12:51 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNColbert39 min
Aug 26, 1:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNLauderdale39 min
Aug 26, 1:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNLauderdale, Lawrence47 min
Aug 26, 2:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNLawrence, Limestone, Madison, Morgan44 min
Aug 26, 2:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNCullman, Morgan52 min
Aug 26, 2:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNMadison49 min
Aug 26, 3:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNCullman, Marshall48 min
Aug 26, 1:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNLincoln40 min
Aug 26, 2:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNLincoln, Moore47 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.