Scattered severe thunderstorms erupted during the late afternoon hours. The atmosphere was conducive to downburst winds which occurred at a few locations in north Alabama.
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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.
The episode as NWS HUN wrote it up.
Scattered severe thunderstorms erupted during the late afternoon hours. The atmosphere was conducive to downburst winds which occurred at a few locations in north Alabama. Many of the thunderstorms also produced frequent lightning strikes.
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 Jun 23, 12:25 PM CST, 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 125 PM CDT MON JUN 23 2008 .UPDATE...FOR 18Z TAFS/AVIATION AND CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT. && .AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS WILL GENERALLY PREVAIL AT BOTH KMSL AND KHSV THROUGH TONIGHT. LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FAST APPROACHING NW AL WILL IMPACT KMSL BETWEEN 1830-1900Z IF IT HOLDS TOGETHER. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN COULD TAKE VSBY DOWN TO IFR DURING THIS TIME. WILL MONITOR AND UPDATE TAF AS NEEDED. OTHERWISE...ISOLD HIT-OR-MISS CONVECTION WILL PERSIST THROUGH SUNSET THIS EVENING. && .DISCUSSION...SMALL LINE OF STORMS CONTINUING TO BUILD AND MOVE RAPIDLY SOUTHEAST FROM SW TN. THIS IN RESPONSE TO NOSE OF H5 SPEED MAX AND 315K THETA-E RIDGE AXIS. WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR OVER THE NEXT COUPLE HOURS. MDPI/WINDEX FROM NAM BUFR IS AROUND 0.90 WITH FRZ LVL AROUND 13KFT. DEEPER CONVECTION COULD SUPPORT BRIEF GUSTY WINDS AND EVEN SMALL HAIL. AIRMASS AHEAD OF THIS CONVECTIVE LINE IS UNSTABLE WITH TEMPS IN THE UPR 80S AND DEWPTS AROUND 60F. WITH LACK OF LOW LVL SUPPORT AND UPR LVL FORCING WEAKENING AS THIS COMPLEX MOVES SOUTHEAST...EXPECT OVERALL TREND TO WEAKEN BY 19Z. HOWEVER... ADDITIONAL REDEVELOPMENT CAN BE EXPECTED ELSEWHERE. && .HUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...NONE. TN...NONE. && DJN.83
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 108 PM CDT MON JUN 23 2008 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-240300- LAUDERDALE-COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-MADISON-MORGAN- MARSHALL-JACKSON-DE KALB-CULLMAN-MOORE-LINCOLN-FRANKLIN TN- 108 PM CDT MON JUN 23 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON... THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT AREAS...MAINLY WEST OF I-65...THIS AFTERNOON. SOME STORMS WILL BE STRONG...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...BRIEF WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS RETURNS THURSDAY AND CONTINUES THROUGH SUNDAY. WHILE WIDESPREAD OR ORGANIZED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME...A FEW STRONG STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. DJN
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 105 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:04 UTC.
14 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds blew down a tree on Mulberry Lane.
Thunderstorm winds blew a tree onto a vehicle at 7th and Russell Street.
Thunderstorm winds tore siding off of a fire station building.
Thunderstorm winds downed a tree onto a light pole in the city park.
Thunderstorm winds downed phone lines on Moody Lane.
Thunderstorm winds downed a tree at a residence on North Pike Road.
Thunderstorm winds downed three small trees onto a home.
Thunderstorm winds downed a tree onto the railroad near Old Lee Highway just east of Cherokee.
Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees onto power lines and downed a telephone pole.
Thunderstorm winds downed a tree which blocked the turn lane at the intersection of Sparkman Drive and Executive Drive.
Thunderstorm winds downed two trees at the intersection of Bob Wallace and Memorial Parkway.
Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees and power lines onto Matthews Street resulting in a power outage.
Emergency management surveyed an area of thunderstorm wind damage. Thunderstorm winds peeled a metal roof off of a home. Trees were blown down about 1/4 mile further down County Road 9. The top of a very large hardwood tree was snapped off.
Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees onto power lines along Cherry Tree Road.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alabama in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, June 2008
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: 97670, 97671, 97672, 97894, 97673, 97674, 97893, 97675, 97676, 97677, 97678, 97679, 97680, 97681.