12 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jul 4, 1:40 PM CST, 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 240 PM CDT SUN JUL 4 2004 .DISCUSSION... REGIONAL RADARS SHOWING A LINE OF STRONG/SEVERE STORMS EXTENDING FROM MARTIN TN TO CORINTH MS TO NEW ALBANY MS. THIS LINE OF STORMS IS FEEDING OF MID 70S DWPTS AND SBCAPES BETWEEN 3-4 KJ/KG. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY AND PROFILER DATA ALSO SHOWS A DISTINCT S/W TROUGH APPROACHING THE MS RIVER WITH A 40-50 KT MID LEVEL SPEED MAX PUSHING ACROSS SRN MO. ALTHOUGH THE LOW LEVEL MASS CONVERGENCE IS FAIRLY WEAK AND THE LINE HAS SHOWN SOME WEAKENING TREND OVER THE LAST 30 MINS...THE FORCING ALONG THE COLD POOL SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT TO SUSTAIN THE CONVECTIVE LINE FOR A WHILE LONGER. ON ITS CURRENT COURSE...THE STORMS WILL CLEAR THE REGION BEFORE SUNSET AND WILL TAPER POPS ACCORDINGLY. WITH CLEARING SKIES...HIGH DWPTS AND POTENTIAL FOR WET GROUNDS (IF LINE HOLDS TOGETHER)...WILL MENTION FOG FOR OVERNIGHT. U/L HEIGHTS WILL RISE ACROSS THE SERN QUARTER OF THE NATION OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS AND THIS WILL HELP TO LIMIT PRECIP CHCS TO THE ISOLD CATEGORY. TEMPS WILL ALSO RISE TO ABOVE CLIMO VALUES FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A WHILE...AND COMBINED WITH DWPTS IN THE LOWER 70S...WILL PRODUCE HI VALUES NEAR 100 MON/TUE AFTNS. LONGER TERM (WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY)...THE PRIMARY STORM TRACK WILL RETURN TO THE NORTHERN TIER OF THE CONUS OVER THIS PERIOD AS A LOW AMPLITUDE RIDGE POSITIONS ITSELF FROM NRN MEXICO TO THE SERN US COAST. THE GFS CONTINUES TO INDICATE A FROPA IN THE WED/WED NIGHT TIME FRAME...BUT THE LAST ECMWF AND 12KM ETA STALLS THIS FEATURE NORTH OF THE TN VLY. GIVEN THE UPPER FLOW PATTERN...AM INCLINED TO TREND TOWARD THE ECMWF.ETA12 SOLUTION. HOWEVER...THE FAIRLY LOW AMPLITUDE NATURE OF THE UPPER RIDGE SHOULD HELP KEEP TEMPS FROM GETTING TOO FAR OUT OF CONTROL LATE THIS WEEK AND WILL TREND TOWARD THE MID RANGE OF THE ENSEMBLE OUTPUT (I.E. AROUND 90F FOR HIGHS MOST OF THE WEEK). WILL ALSO CONTINUE WITH THE HIGHEST POPS FOR WED INTO EARLY THU WITH PASSAGE OF WEAK S/W TROUGH...AND THEN CARRY ISOLD DIURNAL POPS FOR REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... HUNTSVILLE 73 92 73 92 / 50 20 10 20 SHOALS 73 93 74 91 / 40 20 10 20 CULLMAN 72 93 73 92 / 50 20 10 20 FAYETTEVILLE 72 92 73 91 / 50 20 10 20 FT PAYNE 70 92 71 91 / 50 20 10 20 && .HUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 4 PM FOR LAWRENCE...LAUDERDALE ...COLBERT AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES. TN...NONE. && 15
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 100 PM CDT SUN JUL 4 2004 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-051000- COLBERT-CULLMAN-DE KALB-FRANKLIN AL-FRANKLIN TN-JACKSON-LAUDERDALE- LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-LINCOLN-MADISON-MARSHALL-MOORE-MORGAN- 100 PM CDT SUN JUL 4 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PARTS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...(THROUGH TONIGHT)... A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI AND WESTERN TENNESSEE WILL MOVE EAST THIS AFTERNOON. IT IS EXPECTED TO CLIP THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF ALABAMA BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON...AND CONTINUE NEAR THE TENNESSEE ALABAMA STATE LINE THROUGH EARLY EVENING. THE BEST TIME FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE BETWEEN 2 AND 7 PM. THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH THIS COMPLEX AS WELL. COMBINED WITH RECENT RAINFALL...ISOLATED CASES OF FLASH FLOODING CANNOT BE RULED OUT... ESPECIALLY ACROSS NORTHWEST ALABAMA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...(MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY)... THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. DRY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED FOR EARLY NEXT WEEK. AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WILL CLIMB INTO THE LOWER 90S BOTH MONDAY AND TUESDAY... WITH EXPECTED HEAT INDICES EXCEEDING 100 DEGREES. A MORE TYPICAL SUMMERTIME PATTERN WILL DEVELOP BY THE MIDDLE AND LATTER PORTIONS OF THE WORK WEEK...WITH ISOLATED AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING THUNDERSTORMS A POSSIBILITY EACH DAY. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL MAY BE REQUIRED LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. BCC
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 116 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:14 UTC.
12 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A few trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
Several trees and power lines were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
A large tree and several large limbs and power lines were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
A few power lines were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
A few trees and power lines were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
A large tree and power lines were down due to thunderstorm winds.
Several trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
A large tree was blown down by thunderstorm winds.
A large tree and a few power lines and large limbs blown down by thunderstorm winds.
A few trees were blown down due to thunderstorm winds.
A large tree was blown down by thunderstorm winds.
Two large trees and large limbs blown down by thunderstorm winds.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alabama in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, July 2004
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5412884, 5412885, 5412886, 5412887, 5412888, 5412889, 5412890, 5412891, 5412955, 5412956, 5412957, 5412958.