An isolated thunderstorm produced lightning and minor damage in Albertville, Alabama.
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An isolated thunderstorm produced lightning and minor damage in Albertville, Alabama.
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 Aug 2, 5:19 AM CST, 2 hours 11 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 619 AM CDT FRI AUG 2 2013 .UPDATE... FOR 12Z TAFS && .DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 353 AM CDT FRI AUG 2 2013/ QUIET CONDITIONS PREVAILED ACROSS THE TENNESSEE VALLEY...AS SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE MID MISSISSIPPI/OHIO VALLEY CONTROLS THE WEATHER. OVERNIGHT LOW TEMPERATURES THUS FAR HAVE COOLED INTO THE MID 60S WITH LIGHT WINDS. RESIDUAL MOISTURE FROM RECENT RAINFALL HAS RESULTED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF LOW CLOUDS/PATCHY FOG ACROSS PARTS OF THE REGION (ESPECIALLY NE ALABAMA/ADJACENT SOUTHERN TENNESSEE...SOUTHWARD TO MARSHALL/CULLMAN COUNTIES) WHERE THE HEAVIEST RECENT RAINFALL OCCURRED. ON A LARGER SCALE...A SEEMINGLY PERSISTENT PATTERN OF UPPER RIDGE WEST/TROUGHING EAST CONTINUED. OVER THE LAST DAY...FEW CHANGES WERE EVIDENT FROM AN ANALYSIS OF RECENT 00Z DATA. AN UPPER RIDGE CENTERED OVER THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES/PLAINS HAS WEAKENED SOMEWHAT WITH 500MB HEIGHTS AROUND 594 DECAMETERS...AS A MIX OF SUBTROPICAL AND NORTHERN STREAM MOISTURE JUST NORTH OF THE RIDGES MOVES EASTWARD TOWARD MEAN TROUGHING ALONG THE EAST COAST. SOME OF THIS MOISTURE HAS RESULTED IN ANOTHER MCS MOVING ACROSS NE/KS. HIGH LEVEL MOISTURE EJECTED BY THAT SYSTEM WAS NEARING THE FORECAST AREA FROM THE NW. AFTER A MISTY/FOGGY START...DRY AND VERY WARM TO HOT CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST TODAY...AS THE ABOVE MENTIONED SURFACE HIGH MOVES TOWARD THE MID ATLANTIC. DESPITE A LIGHT NE FLOW...HIGHS TODAY SHOULD WARM INTO THE UPPER 80S AND LOWER 90S. CLOUDS HOWEVER WILL GRADUALLY INCREASE AS AN UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM (IN PART ASSOCIATED WITH CONVECTION TO OUR NW) NEARS. RAIN CHANCES RETURN AGAIN SATURDAY AFTERNOON AS MORE MOISTURE/INSTABILITY IS REALIZED. HAVE STARTED OFF THIS NEXT ROUND OF CONVECTION AS ISOLATED/10 POPS WITH HIGHER CHANCES SAT NIGHT AND ON SUNDAY. PRECIP WATER AMOUNTS RISE TO AROUND 2 INCHES SAT AFTERNOON AND GENERALLY REMAIN ABOVE 1.5 INCHES INTO THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. EVEN THOUGH RATHER HIGH PRECIP WATER AMOUNTS ARE FORECAST ON SAT...HAVE KEPT POPS SLIM DUE TO LIMITED LIFT. BETTER LIFT AND ANOTHER FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL BRING HIGHER RAIN CHANCES FOR MUCH OF NEXT WEEK. MODEL OUTPUT WISE...THE 00Z NAM/GFS/ECMWF WERE IN REASONABLY GOOD AGREEMENT BRINGING ANOTHER COLD FRONT ACROSS THE AREA BY SUN MORNING. THE GFS/ECMWF IN PARTICULAR WERE ADVERTISING A FEW COMPLEXES MOVING ACROSS THE REGION IN A NW FLOW FROM SUN-MON... WITH THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY NEARBY. THEREFORE HAVE THE HIGHER POPS (40 PERCENT) THEN. AS CAN BE THE CASE IN A NW FLOW...SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE...WITH THE MAIN THREAT FROM GUSTY WINDS. HIGH PRECIP WATER AMOUNTS ALSO MEAN A HEIGHTENED HEAVY RAINFALL POTENTIAL...AND ELECTRICALLY ACTIVE STORMS. THE FRONT SHOULD MOVE NORTH OF THE VALLEY ON TUESDAY. GIVEN HIGHER MOISTURE LEVELS...MORE CLOUDS THAN SUN AND CONTINUED RAIN CHANCES...HAVE TEMPERED DAILY HIGH TEMPERATURES DOWNWARD INTO THE UPPER 80S/LOWER 90S...RATHER THAN MID 90S THE GFS WAS SUGGESTING. RSB && .AVIATION... FOR 12Z TAFS...PATCHY FOG WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE REGION OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS...SLOWLY CLEARING BY ABOUT 14Z. SOME OF THE SMALLER TERMINALS ACROSS THE REGION WILL CONTINUE TO SEE VIS BELOW 2SM WHILE KHSV AND KMSL MAY ONLY SEE BRIEF DIPS TO MVFR. WITH JUST FEW/SCT HIGH CLOUDS STREAMING ACROSS THE REGION TODAY...VFR CONDITIONS WILL THEN PERSIST THRU THE END OF THE PERIOD. SLIGHTLY MORE CLOUD COVER IS EXPECTED OVERNIGHT AND SHOULD HELP REDUCE THE FOG POTENTIAL FOR TOMORROW MORNING. CCC && .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 406 AM CDT FRI AUG 2 2013 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-022000- LAUDERDALE-COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-MADISON-MORGAN- MARSHALL-JACKSON-DEKALB-CULLMAN-MOORE-LINCOLN-FRANKLIN TN- 406 AM CDT FRI AUG 2 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. PATCHY FOG IS POSSIBLE THROUGH MID MORNING...ESPECIALLY IN SHELTERED AND VALLEY LOCATIONS...AND NEAR BODIES OF WATER. THE GREATEST POTENTIAL FOR FOG WILL EXIST OVER CULLMAN...MARSHALL...AND JACKSON COUNTIES. VISIBILITIES MAY FALL BELOW ONE HALF MILE AT TIMES. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR SUDDEN CHANGES IN VISIBILITY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY... CLUSTERS OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN TO THE REGION LATE IN THE WEEKEND THROUGH MID WEEK AS A NORTHWEST FLOW PATTERN ALOFT INTERACTS WITH A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONTAL BOUNDARY. THE MAIN HAZARDS WILL BE GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 446 AM CDT FRI AUG 2 2013 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-021400- LAUDERDALE-COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-MADISON-MORGAN- MARSHALL-JACKSON-DEKALB-CULLMAN-MOORE-LINCOLN-FRANKLIN TN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FLORENCE...MUSCLE SHOALS...RUSSELLVILLE... MOULTON...ATHENS...HUNTSVILLE...DECATUR...GUNTERSVILLE... SCOTTSBORO...FORT PAYNE...CULLMAN...LYNCHBURG...FAYETTEVILLE... WINCHESTER 446 AM CDT FRI AUG 2 2013 ...PATCHY FOG ACROSS NORTH ALABAMA AND SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE... RECENT RAINFALL ACROSS THE TENNESSEE VALLEY HAS CAUSED PATCHY FOG ACROSS THE AREA THAT COULD LEAD TO REDUCED VISIBILITIES THROUGH MID MORNING. LOCATIONS IN SHELTERED VALLEYS...NEAR AREA WATERWAYS...OR WHICH RECEIVED HEAVY RAINFALL RECENTLY WILL BE THE MOST SUSCEPTIBLE TO FOG DEVELOPMENT. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO DRIVE WITH EXTREME CAUTION...AND BE PREPARED FOR SUDDEN DROPS IN VISIBILITIES TO AS LOW AS ONE HALF MILE. USE LOW BEAMS...REDUCE DRIVING SPEED...AND ALLOW FOR PLENTY OF ROOM BETWEEN YOU AND OTHER CARS. CCC
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 75 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:30 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
An isolated thunderstorm produced a lightning strike that produced minor fire damage to a residence in Albertville, Alabama.
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