A slow moving storm system produced very heavy rainfall and areal flooding in portions of northeast Alabama. Rainfall amounts through the event ranged from two to three inches, with a few areas receiving up to four inches in a 12 to 18 hour time period.
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A slow moving storm system produced very heavy rainfall and areal flooding in portions of northeast Alabama. Rainfall amounts through the event ranged from two to three inches, with a few areas receiving up to four inches in a 12 to 18 hour time period.
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 Apr 28, 1:12 PM CST, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 212 PM CDT SUN APR 28 2013 .DISCUSSION... WENT WITH A BLEND OF GFS/NAM FOR THIS FCST PACKAGE. CDFNT EXTENDS FROM NW AL THRU THE HUN AREA AND INTO PORTIONS OF ERN TN. RADAR TRENDS ACROSS THE CWA WERE SHOWING THAT THE COVERAGE AND INTENSITY OF SHRA/TSRA WERE CONTINUING TO DECREASE/MOVE EAST. THE HEAVIEST RAIN ATTM STRETCHED FROM SRN MARSHALL THRU SERN DEKALB COUNTIES. TEMPS WERE MAINLY IN THE LOW 60S UNDER CLOUDY SKIES. FOR TONIGHT...WILL KEEP LOW POPS MAINLY FOR LOCATIONS EAST OF I65 UNTIL 06Z. AFTER 06Z REMOVED THE CHC OF PCPN ACROSS THE CWA. NO SVR WX IS EXPECTED BUT MAY HAVE SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING OR GUSTY WINDS/SMALL HAIL IN STRONGER STORMS. MONDAY...THE UPPER TROF AXIS...NOW CURRENTLY LOCATED JUST WEST OF THE MS RIVER...WILL BE EAST OF THE TN VALLEY. THIS WILL ALLOW FOR DECREASING CLOUDS AND AFTN HIGHS TO CLIMB INTO THE MID/UPPER 70S. CLEAR SKIES ARE EXPECTED OVERNIGHT WITH LOWS IN THE LOW/MID 50S. TUESDAY...HIGH PRESSURE ACROSS THE AREA WILL KEEP DRY CONDITIONS AND MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES. IT WILL A WARM DAY WITH AFTN HIGHS IN THE LOW 80S. WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY...NAM SHOWS AN UPPER LOW ALONG THE GULF COAST WITH A FAIRLY STRONG CDFNT ACROSS THE MIDWEST. ATTM DO NOT HAVE A LOT OF CONFIDENCE WITH TIMING AND COVERAGE OF PCPN AHEAD OF THE CDFNT AND WITH THE UPPER LOW. WILL KEEP LOW POPS THRU THIS TIMEFRAME. LOW LEVEL WINDS ARE NOT VERY STRONG BUT THERE IS ENOUGH INSTABILITY FOR A FEW STORMS...ATTM NOT EXPECTING ANY SVR WX. BY LATE THURSDAY NIGHT THE CDFNT WILL BEGIN TO MOVE ACROSS THE CWA. FRIDAY...THE CDFNT SHOULD BE OUT OF THE CWA BY LATE AFTN/EARLY EVENING. MUCH COOLER AIR WILL BE BEHIND THE CDFNT WITH HIGHS ONLY IN THE LOW/MID 60S...AFTER ARND 80 DEGREES HIGHS FOR TUESDAY THRU THURSDAY. SATURDAY/SUNDAY...SFC HIGH SHOULD KEEP THIS PERIOD DRY WITH A SLOW WARMING TREND. 07 && .AVIATION... /ISSUED 1254 PM CDT SUN APR 28 2013/ FOR 18Z TAFS...LINE OF HEAVY CONVECTION AHEAD OF A CDFNT HAS NOW PUSHED EAST OF THE KHSV/KMSL TAF SITES. ALTHOUGH...THE WESTERN EDGE OF AN ASSOCIATED RAIN SHIELD IS STILL OVER THE KHSV SITE...WITH -RA AND OCCASIONAL THUNDER LIKELY LINGERING THRU 21Z AT KHSV. MVFR VIS MAY PREVAIL AT KHSV THRU ABOUT 21Z...WITH MVFR CIGS PREVAILING THRU ABOUT 06Z AT KMSL AND 07Z AT KHSV. WITH THAT SAID...MODEL GUIDANCE DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE HANDLING THE LOW CLOUD DECK TOO WELL AND THE TIMING FOR THE TRANSITION TO VFR CIGS IS STILL A LITTLE UNCERTAIN. NEVERTHELESS...THE BACK EDGE OF THE CLOUD SHIELD WAS ERODING RATHER QUICKLY IN SAT IMAGERY AND APPEARS LIKELY TO OCCUR AT KHSV/KMSL BY 07Z. @CODE && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... HUNTSVILLE 54 77 55 83 / 30 10 10 10 SHOALS 52 78 54 84 / 10 10 10 10 VINEMONT 53 76 56 82 / 30 10 10 10 FAYETTEVILLE 53 75 52 81 / 30 10 10 10 ALBERTVILLE 54 75 53 82 / 30 10 10 10 FORT PAYNE 51 76 52 81 / 40 10 10 10 && .HUN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...NONE. TN...NONE. && FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WEATHER.GOV/HUNTSVILLE.
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 333 PM CDT SUN APR 28 2013 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-291000- LAUDERDALE-COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-MADISON-MORGAN- MARSHALL-JACKSON-DEKALB-CULLMAN-MOORE-LINCOLN-FRANKLIN TN- 333 PM CDT SUN APR 28 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT... THE THREAT OF HEAVY RAIN AND A FEW STORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER CULLMAN...MARSHALL AND DEKALB COUNTIES FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON BEFORE DIMINISHING LATER THIS EVENING. PLEASE CONTINUE TO HEED ANY ROAD CLOSURES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FROM WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY AS A STRONG COLD FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE WEST. A FEW STRONG STORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL ARE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER ANY REPORTS OF FLOODING WOULD BE APPRECIATED.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
1034 AM CDT SUN APR 28 2013
TNZ076-096-097-281615-
MOORE TN-LINCOLN TN-FRANKLIN TN-
1034 AM CDT SUN APR 28 2013
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTH CENTRAL MOORE...
SOUTHEASTERN LINCOLN AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES UNTIL 1115 AM CDT...
AT 1030 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF HUNTLAND...OR 9 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF FAYETTEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WINCHESTER...LEXIE CROSSROADS...ESTILL SPRINGS...AND TIMS FORD LAKE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
&&
LAT...LON 3534 8603 3534 8603 3531 8600 3531 8595
3528 8591 3522 8586 3520 8587 3499 8639
3499 8646 3512 8655 3536 8615
TIME...MOT...LOC 1530Z 239DEG 31KT 3509 8642
KDWThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Areal flooding occurred with the intersection of Prestwood and Lankford drive being under water from Big Wills Creek.
The intersection of County road 51 and U.S. Highway 11 was under water with several inches of water over the roads due to flooding from Big Wills Creek in Fort Payne, Alabama.
Heavy rainfall resulted in flooding with several inches of water over the roads along Highway 168 near Summerville road, west of Boaz, Alabama.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alabama in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, April 2013
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: 437400, 437401, 437403.