Thunderstorm Wind, Dekalb
- When
- July 2, 4:25 PM CST to 4:28 PM CST
- Where
- Dekalb County, Mentone
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 34.583, -85.600
A tree was blown down on County Road 89.
Damaging Wind in Alabama, July 2, 2005
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What forecasters said that day
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 2, 1:45 PM CST, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 1:45 PM CST, 2 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 245 PM CDT SAT JUL 2 2005 .DISCUSSION... FRONTAL BOUNDARY STILL LURKING IN VICINITY OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY...ACTING AS A FOCUSING MECHANISM FOR CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT. CONVECTION HAS THUS FAR REMAINED TO THE WEST AND SOUTH OF THE CWFA. WEAK UPPER LEVEL TROF NOTED ON WATER VAPOR IMAGERY CURRENTLY MOVING INTO THE MID MS VALLEY. SLIGHTLY DRIER AIR HAS MANAGED TO FILTER INTO THE AREA...WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE MID TO UPPER 60S IN MANY LOCATIONS. WITH JUST SCATTERED CU DEVELOPMENT...TEMPS HAVE CLIMBED TO AROUND 90 IN MOST LOCATIONS. WILL NOT INCLUDE ANY MENTION OF PRECIP FOR TONIGHT...WITH FRONTAL BOUNDARY GENERALLY JUST SOUTH OF THE FA AND BASED ON CURRENT RADAR. CU WILL DISSIPATE AFTER SUNSET...WITH SKIES MOSTLY CLEAR OVERNIGHT. WEAK UPPER LEVEL TROF WILL CONTINUE TO SWING EASTWARD TOMORROW...AND EXTEND FROM THE OHIO VALLEY DOWN THROUGH THE TN VALLEY. WITH MARGINAL INSTABILITY IN PLACE...THIS FEATURE MAY HELP TO KICK OFF A SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM DURING PEAK HEATING. EXPECT ANY ACTIVITY THAT DOES DEVELOP TO BE ISOLATED...AND SO WILL NOT MENTION ATTM. SKIES WILL AGAIN CLEAR OVERNIGHT SUNDAY AS WEAK UPPER LEVEL RIDGING BEGINS TO BUILD INTO THE AREA. WEAK UPPER LEVEL RIDGE IN PLACE ON THE FOURTH WILL HELP TO INHIBIT ANY CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT. STILL COULD SEE AN ISOLATED SHRA/TSRA DEVELOP...BUT EXPECT COVERAGE TO BE SO ISOLATED THAT IT DOES NOT WARRANT INCLUDING IN ZONES. NAM HINTING AT A WEAK SHORTWAVE MOVING ACROSS THE AREA MONDAY NIGHT...WHICH COULD TRIGGER A SHOWER OR TWO. THEREFORE...HELD ON TO ISOLATED WORDING FOR MONDAY NIGHT. REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST ESSENTIALLY CONSISTS OF SUMMERTIME AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. GFS CONTINUES TO PUSH A FRONT SOUTHWARD TOWARDS THE TENNESSEE VALLEY. DO NOT ANTICIPATE IT WILL BE ABLE TO PUSH QUITE THIS FAR SOUTH...AS GFS STALLS IT AND KEEPS IT TO OUR NW. THEREFORE...MAINTAINED JUST SLIGHT CHANCE POPS THROUGH THE EXTENDED AS WEAK DISTURBANCES MOVE ACROSS. TEMPS SHOULD REMAIN NEAR NORMAL VALUES...WITH HIGHS AROUND 90 AND LOWS AROUND 70. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... HUNTSVILLE 70 91 70 92 / 10 10 10 10 SHOALS 69 92 70 92 / 10 10 10 10 CULLMAN 70 91 70 93 / 10 10 10 10 FAYETTEVILLE 68 89 69 91 / 10 10 10 10 FT PAYNE 68 88 69 90 / 10 10 10 10 && .HUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...NONE. TN...NONE. && 24
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 2, 12:00 PM CST, 4 hours 25 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 100 PM CDT SAT JUL 2 2005 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-031000- COLBERT-CULLMAN-DE KALB-FRANKLIN AL-FRANKLIN TN-JACKSON-LAUDERDALE- LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-LINCOLN-MADISON-MARSHALL-MOORE-MORGAN- 100 PM CDT SAT JUL 2 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PARTS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...(TODAY AND TONIGHT)... THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. A WEAK DIFFUSE FRONTAL BOUNDARY REMAINS DRAPED ACROSS NORTH ALABAMA AND MAY ACT AS THE FOCUS FOR AN ISOLATED SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM THIS AFTERNOON. WHILE MOST LOCATIONS WILL NOT SEE ANY RAINFALL...ANY THUNDERSTORM THAT DEVELOPS COULD BECOME BRIEFLY STRONG...WITH GUSTY WINDS TO AROUND 50 MPH...TORRENTIAL RAINFALL...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. ANY ACTIVITY WILL DIMINISH AFTER SUNSET. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...(SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY)... THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. TYPICAL SUMMERTIME WEATHER WILL CONTINUE FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN SEASONABLE AND THE THREAT FOR MAINLY ISOLATED AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIST EACH DAY...ESPECIALLY FROM TUESDAY ONWARD. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. 09
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 4:01 PM CST, 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 501 PM CDT SAT JUL 2 2005 ALZ010-022230- DE KALB- 501 PM CDT SAT JUL 2 2005 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR DEKALB COUNTY... AT 459 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF IDER...OR 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT PAYNE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. PEA SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 40 MPH...AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO ONE INCH WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH 530 PM. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH INCLUDE... MENTONE. VALLEY HEAD. SEEK SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION. PB
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 59 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:23 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Arizona, July 2 to 5, 2005
- Damaging Wind in Colorado, July 2, 2005
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Minnesota, July 2 to 11, 2005
- Rip Current in Florida, July 2, 2005
- Flash Flood in New York, July 2 to 3, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, July 2, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, July 2, 2005
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, July 2, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, July 2, 2005
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Georgia, July 2, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, July 2 to 3, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Montana, July 2, 2005
More
Every storm in Alabama in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, July 2005
Sources
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: 5466808.