NWS Huntsville ALSV.W 0045May 31, 2026
Severe Thunderstorm Warning: Colbert, Lauderdale and Lawrence, AL
The National Weather Service office in Huntsville issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Colbert, Lauderdale and Lawrence in Alabama, which was in force until 5:30 p.m. local time on May 31. It was the 45th severe thunderstorm warning the NWS office in Huntsville issued in 2026. Alabama had 40 severe thunderstorm warnings in May 2026, against 76 in an average May of 2008-2025 (Alabama's severe thunderstorm warnings by year).
ExpiredWarning
In force for 42 minutes; it has expired. The agency may have replaced it with a new notice.
The notice
- Issued by
- National Weather Service, Huntsville AL
- Area
- Colbert, Lauderdale and Lawrence
- State
- Alabama
- Level
- Warning
- Issued
- 4:48 p.m. CDT, May 31, 2026
- Expires
- 5:30 p.m. CDT, May 31, 2026
- CAP severity, certainty, urgency
- Severe, Observed, Immediate
- VTEC event
- KHUN SV.W 0045
- Official source
- National Weather Service: the notice at its source
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama since 2008Every warning type in Alabama
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The notice as issued
SVRHUN The National Weather Service in Huntsville Alabama has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Central Lauderdale County in northwestern Alabama... East central Colbert County in northwestern Alabama... North central Lawrence County in northwestern Alabama... * Until 530 PM CDT. * At 448 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Underwood-Petersville, or 9 miles north of Florence, moving southeast at 25 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. * Locations impacted include... Florence, Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, Tuscumbia, Killen, St. Florian, Underwood-Petersville, Green Hill, Northwest Alabama Regional Airport, and Oakland.
What the agency told people to do
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. Large hail, damaging wind, and continuous cloud to ground lightning are occurring with this storm. Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning.
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The record around this notice
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama since 2008621 a year
- Every warning type in Alabama
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning: what it means, and the states that get the most20,005 a year
- NWS notices, May 20262,688 in the month
- The latest from the National Weather Service
- Warning, watch or advisory: the three NWS levels