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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Huntsville, AL

June 7, 2026Jackson County, Limestone County, Madison County, Alabama; Franklin County, Lincoln County, Tennessee

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 7, 2026, 11:27 AM CDT for Jackson County, Limestone County, Madison County, Alabama; Franklin County, Lincoln County, Tennessee. It was in force for 7 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
Jun 7, 2026, 11:27 AM CDT (16:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 2026, 6:21 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Huntsville, AL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Jackson County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Franklin County, TN, Lincoln County, TN

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 134 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 2026-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 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 2026-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 55 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
962 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Jun 7, 10:26 AM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 10:26 AM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 11:25 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningHUNColbert, Lauderdale, Limestone3 hr
Jun 7, 12:47 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHUNDeKalb, Jackson, Marshall5 hr
Jun 7, 1:12 PM CDTFlood WatchHUNCullman, DeKalb, Jackson, Lauderdale, Limestone, Madison and 2 more31 hr
Jun 7, 1:44 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningHUNJackson, Madison, Marshall68 hr
Jun 7, 1:47 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningHUNMadison30 hr
Jun 7, 2:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHUNColbert, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone3 hr
Jun 7, 3:06 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning EmergencyCatastrophic damage threatHUNJackson, Madison3 hr
Jun 7, 5:06 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningHUNColbert, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone4 hr
Jun 7, 5:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementHUNCullman, Marshall91 min
Jun 7, 6:00 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningHUNDeKalb, Jackson, Limestone, Madison, Marshall, Morgan4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Alabama, 2026Flash Flood Warnings in Tennessee, 2026Every flash flood warning in 2026

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.