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Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this flash flood warning at Sep 8, 2026, 1:50 PM CDT for Lauderdale County, Alabama. It was in force for 85 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
- Sep 8, 2026, 1:50 PM CDT (18:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2026, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 85 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 18:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 796 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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.