A thunderstorm produced minor lightning damage at a residence in Limestone County, AL.
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A thunderstorm produced minor lightning damage at a residence in Limestone County, AL.
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 Oct 12, 9:17 AM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 1017 AM CDT FRI OCT 12 2012 .UPDATE... FOR PRECIP CHANCES AND TEMPS THIS AFTERNOON. && .DISCUSSION... THE LATEST SURFACE ANALYSIS AND 88-D RETURNS AT 15Z INDICATES THAT THE NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT IS EXTENDING SOUTHEAST FROM SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE TO NORTHEAST ALABAMA. A SHORT WAVE WAS ANALYZED ALONG THE BOUNDARY...MOVING INTO NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA. BASED UPON 88-D TRENDS AND ANALYSIS...HAVE DECIDED TO CONTINUE WITH LIKELY CHANCE POPS FOR SHOWERS AND EMBEDDED STORMS FOR THE MAJORITY OF THE AFTERNOON MAINLY ALONG AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 65. HAVE LOWERED HIGH TEMPS AT LEAST A CATEGORY TO ACCOUNT FOR THE PRECIP AND CLOUDS. TT && .AVIATION... /ISSUED 634 AM CDT FRI OCT 12 2012/ FOR 12Z TAFS...BKN LINE OF SHRA/TSRA CONTINUES TO MOVE SEWD ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING...WELL AHEAD OF A WEAK COLD FRONT OVER THE MIDWEST REGION. PRECIP SHOULD CONTINUE TO MOVE SEWD AND WEAKEN INTO THE LATE MORNING PERIOD...AS THE FRONT BEGINS TO SETTLE INTO THE AREA. MVFR CIGS/VIS ARE POSSIBLE INTO THE EARLY AFTERNOON HRS...ESPECIALLY IN AND NEAR THE HEAVIER RAINFALL. CIGS SHOULD THEN BEGIN TO LIFT ABOVE VFR LEVELS LATE THIS AFTERNOON...AS THE COLD FRONT WEAKENS ACROSS THE REGION. ONLY OTHER CONCERN MAY BE SOME -BR/MVFR VIS...MAINLY NEAR THE KMSL TERMINAL OVERNIGHT/EARLY SAT. 09 && .HUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...NONE. TN...NONE. && FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WEATHER.GOV/HUNTSVILLE.
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 1046 AM CDT FRI OCT 12 2012 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-121800- LAUDERDALE-COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-MADISON-MORGAN- MARSHALL-JACKSON-DEKALB-CULLMAN-MOORE-LINCOLN-FRANKLIN TN- 1046 AM CDT FRI OCT 12 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... A WEAK COLD FRONT OUT OF THE NORTHWEST WILL SETTLE INTO THE OUTLOOK AREA LATER TODAY AND STALL. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ALONG AND AHEAD OF THIS BOUNDARY. A FEW STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF GUSTY WINDS...OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. PATCHY FOG IS POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT...MAINLY IN SHELTERED AND VALLEY AREAS...AND NEAR BODIES OF WATER. VISIBILITIES MAY FALL BELOW ONE MILE AT TIMES IN SOME OF THE THICKER FOG. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...AND AGAIN WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY AS ADDITIONAL COLD FRONTS MOVE ACROSS THE REGION. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. TT
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 83 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:44 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck a home in the Indian Trace neighborhood near Athens and produced minor damage to the residence.
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