Afternoon thunderstorms produced isolated wind damage at a historic Civil War era cemetary in Limestone County and a brief flash flood in Florence in Lauderdale County.
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Afternoon thunderstorms produced isolated wind damage at a historic Civil War era cemetary in Limestone County and a brief flash flood in Florence in Lauderdale County.
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 11, 1:49 PM CST, 51 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 249 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2014 .DISCUSSION... THE 19Z SURFACE ANALYSIS INDICATED THAT A SURFACE TROUGH WAS MOVING THROUGH NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND WEST TENNESSEE AND WAS CLOSING IN ON THE FORECAST AREA. SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG AND AHEAD OF THIS WEAK BOUNDARY MAINLY ALONG AND WEST OF INTERSTATE 65. TEMPS WERE MAINLY IN THE UPPER 70S UNDER BROKEN/OVERCAST CLOUD COVER. FOR TONIGHT...WILL KEEP IN AT LEAST A SLIGHT CHANCE POP FOR THE FORECAST AREA DUE TO THE TROUGH MOVING THROUGH THE FORECAST AREA AND CONTINUED WIDELY SCATTERED SHRA EXPECTED. HAVE RAISED OVERNIGHT LOWS SLIGHTLY DUE TO EXPECTED BROKEN CLOUD COVER OVERNIGHT AS THE SHORT WAVE AND SURFACE TROUGH MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. THE SHORT TERM MODELS MOVE IN A WEAK AND SHORT LIVED RIDGE AXIS INTO THE LOWER OHIO AND TENNESSEE VALLEY REGION TO START OUT THURSDAY. AM HESITANT TO DROP THE MENTION OF PRECIP ON THURSDAY DUE TO EXPECTED AFTERNOON INSTABILITY...HEATING AND STILL DECENT PWAT VALUES CLOSE TO 1.50 INCHES ACROSS THE REGION. WILL KEEP IN A SLIGHT CHANCE POP FOR THE AREA. THE MODELS NEXT MOVE A COLD FRONT THROUGH THE GREAT LAKES REGION... EXTENDING SOUTHWEST THROUGH MISSOURI AND INTO ARKANSAS BY THURSDAY AFTERNOON. AN ASSOCIATED UPPER TROUGH AT 500 MILLIBARS IS EXPECTED TO FOLLOW THE SURFACE COLD FRONT SOUTHEAST INTO THE REGION. THE MODELS PROGRESSIVELY SHIFT THE COLD FRONT SOUTHEAST INTO MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND CLOSE TO THE FORECAST AREA BY AFTER 06Z FRIDAY. WILL CONTINUE WITH HIGHER END CHANCE POPS FOR THE AREA BY FRIDAY TO ACCOUNT FOR THE BOUNDARY MOVING THROUGH THE REGION. THE GFS AND ECMWF MODELS MOVE THE COLD FRONT SOUTH OF THE FORECAST AREA BY 00Z SATURDAY...WITH PRECIP LINGERING INTO FRIDAY EVENING. A SURFACE RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE IS PROGGED BY THE MODELS TO BUILD EAST-SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY AND INTO THE AREA BETWEEN FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY. WILL KEEP IN LOW POPS FOR SATURDAY DUE TO THE CONTINUED PROXIMITY OF THE UPPER TROUGH AND FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA. EXPECT SHRA/TSRA TO BE MAINLY AFTERNOON IN VARIETY. THE MODELS THEN BUILD IN A RIDGE ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND INTO THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. EXPECT THAT ONLY WIDELY SCATTERED/ISOLATED SHRA/TSRA WILL OCCUR DURING THIS TIME PERIOD AND HAVE MADE SOME SLIGHT CHANGES TO REFLECT THIS IN THE FORECAST IN THE EXTENDED FORECAST PERIODS. TEMPS WILL ALSO BE SLOWLY RISING THROUGH THE EXTENDED TIME FRAME INTO THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. EXPECT TEMPS TO FINALLY MAKE IT INTO THE LOWER 90S BY MONDAY THROUGH NEXT WEDNESDAY...AS THE UPPER RIDGE REMAINS ACROSS THE AREA. TT && .AVIATION... /ISSUED 1252 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2014/ FOR 18Z TAFS... SCATTERED SHOWERS/STORMS IN THE VICINITY OF THE TERMINALS WILL LINGER THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING, WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF BRIEF MVFR CONDS POSSIBLE WITH DIRECT IMPACTS FROM ANY CONVECTION. OTHERWISE, PARTIAL CLEARING TONIGHT WILL LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF PATCHY FOG, SO MVFR CONDS WERE ADDED AS PREVAILING AFTER 8Z, WITH A TEMPO OF IFR CONDS POSSIBLE AROUND DAYBREAK. OTHERWISE, FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE TAF PERIOD AFTER 13Z TOMORROW, ISOLATED SHOWERS/STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE, BUT COVERAGE WILL BE TOO LOW TO FORMALLY MENTION WITH THIS ISSUANCE. 12 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... HUNTSVILLE 65 85 68 85 / 20 20 20 50 SHOALS 64 86 69 86 / 20 20 20 50 VINEMONT 64 85 68 84 / 20 20 20 50 FAYETTEVILLE 63 84 65 85 / 30 20 20 50 ALBERTVILLE 63 84 65 82 / 30 20 20 50 FORT PAYNE 62 84 66 85 / 30 20 20 50 && .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 1248 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2014 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-121030- LAUDERDALE-COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-MADISON-MORGAN- MARSHALL-JACKSON-DEKALB-CULLMAN-MOORE-LINCOLN-FRANKLIN TN- 1248 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING AS A WEAK BOUNDARY PUSHES ACROSS THE AREA FROM THE WEST. GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM CHANCES TAPER OFF THURSDAY...BEFORE A BETTER CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS RETURN FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE MAIN THREATS. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL LINGER SUNDAY AND MONDAY. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... FORMAL ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. 12
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
1112 AM CDT WED JUN 11 2014
ALZ001-111700-
LAUDERDALE AL-
1112 AM CDT WED JUN 11 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL LAUDERDALE COUNTY UNTIL
1200 PM CDT...
AT 1111 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7
MILES WEST OF UNDERWOOD-PETERSVILLE...OR 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF
SHEFFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
FLORENCE...KILLEN...LEXINGTON...ST. FLORIAN...
UNDERWOOD-PETERSVILLE...ST. JOSEPH...OAKLAND...CLOVERDALE...KINGTOWN
AND ZIP CITY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL BE CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN SMALL TREE
LIMBS...ALONG WITH OTHER SMALL UNSECURED ITEMS. SEEK SAFE SHELTER
UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.
&&
LAT...LON 3501 8769 3500 8721 3497 8721 3482 8756
3482 8759 3479 8764 3478 8770 3473 8779
3474 8782 3488 8792
TIME...MOT...LOC 1611Z 235DEG 19KT 3483 8783
12The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 83 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:39 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong thunderstorm winds downed a tree at the Antioch cemetery on Alabama 127 near Elkmont, Alabama.
Flash flooding was reported along Gresham road in Florence, Alabama, with three feet of water over the road.
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