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Special Weather Statement, NWS Huntsville, AL

August 7, 2026DeKalb County, Alabama

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2026, 2:25 PM CDT for DeKalb County, Alabama. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 7, 2026, 2:25 PM CDT (19:25 UTC)
Expired: Aug 7, 2026, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Huntsville, AL
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 50

County DeKalb County, AL

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 170 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1525 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 616 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 7, 3:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Marshall	52 min
Aug 7, 3:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	DeKalb	50 min
Aug 7, 3:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Limestone	49 min
Aug 7, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	DeKalb, Jackson	58 min
Aug 7, 3:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HUN	Lawrence, Limestone, Morgan	2 hr
Aug 7, 3:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Limestone	53 min
Aug 7, 3:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Jackson	48 min
Aug 7, 4:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Marshall	46 min
Aug 7, 4:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Madison	45 min
Aug 7, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Limestone, Madison, Marshall, Morgan	56 min
Aug 7, 5:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Morgan	46 min
Aug 7, 6:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lawrence	49 min
Aug 7, 6:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HUN	Colbert, Lauderdale	117 min
Aug 7, 4:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	HUN	Lincoln	47 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.