Excessive heat prompted three people to be hospitalized from heat related illnesses Sunday afternoon. Temperatures climbed to values between 90 and 95 degrees Fahrenheit, while heat index values climbed to between 95 and 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Excessive heat prompted three people to be hospitalized from heat related illnesses Sunday afternoon. Temperatures climbed to values between 90 and 95 degrees Fahrenheit, while heat index values climbed to between 95 and 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
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 8, 8:20 AM CST, 4 hours 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 920 AM CDT SUN JUN 8 2008 .DISCUSSION... ANOTHER HOT DAY IS IN STORE...BUT HOPEFUL SIGNS ARE ON THE HORIZON THAT WE WILL AT LEAST NOT SEE ANYTHING THIS HOT FOR A WHILE AFTER TODAY. CURRENTLY SKIES ARE SUNNY OR CLOSE TO IT AREAWIDE. THE USUAL PANCAKE CU SHOULD DEVELOP IN A FEW HOURS...AND COULD INCLUDE SOME VERTICAL EXTENT DUE TO TERRAIN ENHANCEMENT. THERE WAS SOME HINT OF A N-S ORIENTED WEAK SFC BOUNDARY ACROSS NORTH ALABAMA...BUT IT IS INCREASINGLY HARD TO FIND AND MAY ULTIMATELY NOT PLAY ANY ROLE AT ALL IN THE AFTERNOON CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT. WE WILL JUST HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE. 9 AM TEMPS ARE RUNNING A COUPLE DEGREES WARMER THAN THIS SAME TIME YESTERDAY...WHICH MEANS THE GRIDDED TEMPS ARE PROBABLY RIGHT ON TARGET. THE ZONE FORECAST WILL BE UPDATED TO REMOVE MORNING WIND WORDING...OTHERWISE NO CHANGES ARE PLANNED. BY THE WAY...THE FIRST SEVEN DAYS OF JUNE AVERAGED 81.1 DEGREES... WHICH IS THE THIRD WARMEST START TO JUNE ON RECORD AT HUNTSVILLE. MOST OF THIS IS DUE TO THE MORNING LOWS THOUGH AND NOT THE HIGHS. BUT IT COULD BE EVEN WORSE...IN RICHMOND VIRGINIA THIS MORNING AT 10 AM EDT...THE TEMPERATURE WAS ALREADY 94 DEGREES. && .PREV DISCUSSION... THROUGH MONDAY...ISOLD CONVECTIVE THREAT WILL RELY HEAVILY ON TERRAIN FOR INITIAL LIFTING. THIS WAS THE CASE WITH PLATEAU/MTN CONVECTION IN E TN ON SATURDAY. THERE IS A SUBTLE CONVERGENCE ZONE NOTED IN DIFFERENTIAL WIND DIRECTIONS FROM NORTH AL (E-SE) TO SOUTH AL (S-SW). IT IS DIFFICULT TO SAY HOW APPARENT THIS BOUNDARY WILL BE LATER TODAY AFTER DAYTIME HEATING/MIXING. THE 4KM/12KM WRF MODELS SHOW THIS BOUNDARY BECOMING MORE APPARENT BY LATER TONIGHT INTO MONDAY...ALIGNING ITSELF FROM NNW-SSE ACROSS NRN AND EASTERN AL INTO S GA...FAVORING OUR EASTERN COUNTIES. THUS...HAVE MAINTAINED ISOLD TSRA THIS AFTERNOON IN OUR PLATEAU/MTN AREAS...ALTHOUGH THE 4KM WRF IS FORECASTING SPOTTY QPF EVEN FURTHER W-SW. AS ELUDED TO LAST NIGHT...THE THERMODYNAMIC PROFILE WILL BE QUITE FAVORABLE FOR DOWNBURST ACTIVITY...WITH WINDEX VALUES WELL OVER 60 AND MDPI AOA 1.0 EACH AFTERNOON. THE UPPER RIDGE BREAKS DOWN MORE SIGNIFICANTLY ON TUESDAY AS A TROF ADVANCES THROUGH THE MS VALLEY. THIS IS A BIT AGGRESSIVE AS COMPARED TO PREVIOUS RUNS WHICH BROUGHT THE EASTERLY WAVES NOW ENTERING THE BAHAMAS DEEPER INTO THE SE U.S. IN EITHER CASE...STREAMLINE CONVERGENCE WILL INCREASE WITH MOISTURE TRANSPORT VECTORS FROM THE GULF IN LOW TO MID LEVELS. THIS IS POINTING TO AT LEAST SCT CONVECTION TUESDAY...AND A CORRESPONDING SLIGHT COOLING OF MAX TEMPS FROM WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN. THESE STORMS MAY PROVIDE LOCAL...BUT HEAVY DOWNPOURS GIVEN GRADUAL MOISTENING OF THE COLUMN TO NEAR TROPICAL LEVELS OF PWAT ( 1.75 INCHES). GOING FORECAST HANDLES SITUATION FAIRLY WELL LATER THIS WEEK. WE MAY BE ABLE TO INCREASE POPS AGAIN BY THU INTO FRI AS SEVERAL WEAK WAVES ENTER THE REGION FROM THE GOM...ALONG WITH DEEPENING TROPICAL MOISTURE TRANSPORT...BUT WILL AWAIT FURTHER RUN TO RUN SUPPORT. && .HUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...NONE. TN...NONE. && DISCUSSION...JE/23 PREV DISCUSSION...KULA
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 100 PM CDT SUN JUN 8 2008 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-091000- LAUDERDALE-COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-MADISON-MORGAN- MARSHALL-JACKSON-DE KALB-CULLMAN-MOORE-LINCOLN-FRANKLIN TN- 100 PM CDT SUN JUN 8 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...THROUGH TONIGHT... THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. ISOLATED AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY MAINLY EAST OF INTERSTATE 65. A STRONG STORM IS POSSIBLE WITH BRIEF GUSTY WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. ISOLATED AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AGAIN MONDAY ACROSS THE ENTIRE CENTRAL TENNESSEE VALLEY. THESE STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE FOR BRIEF PERIODS OF TIME...PRODUCING STRONG WIND GUSTS AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS. A DECAYING COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE REGION ON MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...BRINGING A SLIGHTLY ENHANCED CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. WITH ABUNDANT GULF MOISTURE IN PLACE...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE. LINGERING WEAK BOUNDARIES AND UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES WILL KEEP A SMALL CHANCE OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE FORECAST ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...ESPECIALLY IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL INCREASE AGAIN ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AS A STRONGER UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM AND COLD FRONT SLOWLY MOVE THROUGH THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THIS SYSTEM...HEAVY RAINFALL WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. JE
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 excessive heat. Local standard time, as filed.
The Huntsville Times reported that the HEMSI unit transported three persons to Huntsville hospital for heat related illnesses on Sunday afternoon.
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