A strong dust devil produced some minor damage in Madison County, Alabama.
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The episode as NWS HUN wrote it up.
A strong dust devil produced some minor damage in Madison County, 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 May 7, 1:45 PM CST, 1 hour earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 245 PM CDT THU MAY 7 2015 .DISCUSSION... UNSEASONABLY WARM AND DRY WX CONDITIONS PREVAIL ACROSS THE CNTRL TN VALLEY THIS THU AFTERNOON...WITH A FEW MORE CLOUDS DEVELOPING ACROSS THE WRN HALF OF THE AREA. SOME CONVECTION HAS DEVELOPED ALONG A WEAK LOW LEVEL CONVERGENT BOUNDARY ACROSS WRN TN INTO NE MS...ALTHOUGH THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD REMAIN OUT OF NW AL INTO THE EVENING HRS. ANY LINGERING CLOUDS SHOULD THEN QUICKLY DIMINISH WITH THE ONSET OF THE EVENING HRS...WITH OVERNIGHT TEMPS FALLING MORE INTO THE SEASONAL MID/UPPER 50S RANGE FOR MOST AREAS. THE FLOW PATTERN OUT OF THE SW BEGINS TO TURN A BIT MORE ACTIVE ON FRI ACROSS THE LOWER MS VALLEY AS THE UPPER RIDGE PATTERN OVER THE NRN GULF BEGINS TO DRIFT EWD. RAIN CHANCES STILL LOOK TO REMAIN PRETTY MUCH NIL OVER THE LOCAL AREA WHERE THE INFLUENCE OF THE UPPER RIDGE WILL HAVE A BIT MORE OF AN EFFECT. THE PROB THOUGH MAY INCREASE FOR SOME OF THIS ACTIVITY OUT W TO FILTER INTO THE WRN HALF OF THE AREA GOING INTO FRI IF THE ENERGY TRANSPORT IS SHEARED A BIT MORE W VERSUS NW. RAIN CHANCES WILL GRADUALLY INCREASE HEADING INTO THE WEEKEND PERIOD AS THE INFLOW STRENGTHENS ACROSS THE WRN/CNTRL GULF COAST REGIONS AHEAD OF A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY MOVING EWD OUT OF THE CNTRL PLAINS STATES. EVEN WITH SOME INCREASING CLOUD COVER...OVERALL TEMPS THIS WEEKEND LOOK TO REMAIN UNSEASONABLY WARM...OR AROUND 5 TO PERHAPS 10 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. CHANCES FOR SHOWERS/TSTMS WILL CONTINUE TO CLIMB GOING INTO THE NEW WORK WEEK...AS A STRONGER COLD FRONT OUT OF THE SRN PLAINS PUSHES EWD INTO THE LOWER MS/TN VALLEY REGIONS. ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT...HEAVY RAINFALL AND A FEW STRONG STORMS MAY DEVELOP WITHIN SOME OF THE PREDOM SCT CONVECTION. THE SFC BOUNDARY THEN LOOKS TO CLEAR THE AREA TO THE E TUE EVENING...WITH PRECIP TAPERING OFF BEHIND THE EXITING FRONT. SLIGHTLY COOLER AIR MAY THEN BRIEFLY MOVE INTO THE REGION ON WED...BEFORE THE WX PATTERN TURNS ACTIVE AGAIN AFTER MID WEEK. 09 && .AVIATION... /ISSUED 1229 PM CDT THU MAY 7 2015/ FOR 18Z TAFS... VFR CONDS WILL PREVAIL THRU THE TAF PERIOD. SKIES SHOULD CLEAR OVERNIGHT TONIGHT BEFORE CLOUDS REDEVELOP TOMORROW AFTN, WITH A SLIGHT INCREASE IN COVERAGE OF FAIR WX CU ESPECIALLY OVER NW AL BY THE END OF THE TAF PERIOD TOMORROW. OTHERWISE, WINDS WILL REMAIN LIGHT AND OUT OF THE E/SE. 12 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... HUNTSVILLE 60 87 63 88 / 0 10 10 20 SHOALS 60 87 63 87 / 0 10 10 20 VINEMONT 58 87 61 86 / 0 10 10 20 FAYETTEVILLE 57 85 60 85 / 0 10 10 20 ALBERTVILLE 56 87 60 85 / 0 10 10 10 FORT PAYNE 55 86 60 84 / 0 10 0 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 201 PM CDT THU MAY 7 2015 ALZ001>010-016-TNZ076-096-097-081100- LAUDERDALE-COLBERT-FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE-LIMESTONE-MADISON-MORGAN- MARSHALL-JACKSON-DEKALB-CULLMAN-MOORE-LINCOLN-FRANKLIN TN- 201 PM CDT THU MAY 7 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHWEST ALABAMA SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES INCREASE LATE MONDAY AND AGAIN TUESDAY AS A WEAK COLD FRONT PUSHES ACROSS THE AREA. GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE DURING THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. 12
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 dust devil. Local standard time, as filed.
Local media reported that a strong dust devil developed near Toney, Alabama, and produced some moderate damage to a small barn. Some of the two by fours that were ten feet long from the small barn were blown over 50 feet and the tin roof from the barn was blown over 300 feet into the air.
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