Alabama, 2023Excessive Heat and Heat in Alabama, June 25 to 29, 2023
June 25 to 29, 2023 · NWS HUN · 6 events in 4 counties and zones
Temperatures reached the middle 90s with dew points in the middle 70s, leading to heat index values of 105 to 110 degrees in northwest Alabama during the midday through early evening hours.
Every event with a place to put it; 6 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 6
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Temperatures reached the middle 90s with dew points in the middle 70s, leading to heat index values of 105 to 110 degrees in northwest Alabama during the midday through early evening hours.
What forecasters said that day
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 25, 9:06 AM CST, 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 9:06 AM CST, 54 minutes before
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</html>Heat, Colbert
- When
- June 25, 10:00 AM CST to 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Colbert forecast zone
- Reported by
- ASOS
- Coordinates
- 34.700, -87.805 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
The heat index reached 105-110 degrees during the midday through early evening hours.
Heat, Lauderdale
- When
- June 25, 10:00 AM CST to 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Lauderdale forecast zone
- Reported by
- ASOS
- Coordinates
- 34.901, -87.654 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
The heat index reached 105-110 degrees during the midday through early evening hours.
Heat, Franklin
- When
- June 25, 10:00 AM CST to 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Franklin forecast zone
- Reported by
- ASOS
- Coordinates
- 34.442, -87.844 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
The heat index reached 105-110 degrees during the midday through early evening hours.
Heat, Lawrence
- When
- June 25, 10:00 AM CST to 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Lawrence forecast zone
- Reported by
- ASOS
- Coordinates
- 34.522, -87.311 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
The heat index reached 105-110 degrees during the midday through early evening hours.
Excessive Heat, Colbert
- When
- June 29, 1:00 PM CST to 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Colbert forecast zone
- Reported by
- ASOS
- Coordinates
- 34.700, -87.805 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
The heat index reached 110 degrees during the early to mid afternoon hours.
Excessive Heat, Lauderdale
- When
- June 29, 1:00 PM CST to 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Lauderdale forecast zone
- Reported by
- ASOS
- Coordinates
- 34.901, -87.654 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
The heat index reached 110 degrees during the early to mid afternoon hours.
- Heat
- Heat below excessive heat criteria that still caused deaths, injuries or significant impacts.
- Excessive Heat
- Heat at or above the local excessive heat warning criteria, or heat that caused deaths.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Indiana, June 25, 20231 death · 1 injured · $3.5 million · EF2 · 41 events
- Tornadoes and Hail in Arkansas, June 25 to 27, 20232 deaths · 1 injured · EF1 · 56 events
- Excessive Heat and Heat in Texas, June 25 to 29, 20232 deaths · 26 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 25, 2023$530,000 · 1 in hail · 171 events
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Kentucky, June 25, 2023EF2 · 88 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, June 25, 2023$4.6 million · 1 in hail · 18 events
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 25, 2023$1.1 million · 70 kt wind · 22 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 25, 20232 injured · $529,000 · 1 in hail · 15 events
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, June 25, 2023$860,000 · 53 kt wind · 13 events
- Flash Flood and Hail in Indiana, June 25, 2023$166,000 · 3 in hail · 46 events
- Damaging Winds in Arkansas, June 25, 2023$654,000 · 70 kt wind · 14 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, June 25, 2023$681,000 · 2.5 in hail · 13 events
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: 1115490, 1115491, 1115492, 1115493, 1115494, 1115495.