Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Alabama, May 2003
7 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2003. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of severe thunderstorm watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- May 2, 20032 severe thunderstorm watches
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Colbert and 23 more | 5 hr |
| May 2, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 26 more | 4 hr |
| May 3, 9:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia, Geneva and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 11, 3:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blount, Cullman, Fayette, Jackson, Jefferson, Lamar and 8 more | 5 hr |
| May 11, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Chilton and 20 more | 6 hr |
| May 16, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne and 24 more | 6 hr |
| May 17, 12:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blount, Colbert, Cullman, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence and 6 more | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Blount County4
- Cullman County4
- Lawrence County4
- Limestone County4
- Madison County4
- Marion County4
- Marshall County4
- Morgan County4
- Winston County4
- Colbert County3
- Fayette County3
- Franklin County3
- Jackson County3
- Jefferson County3
- Lamar County3
- Lauderdale County3
- Pickens County3
- Walker County3
- Conecuh County3
- Monroe County3
- Calhoun County2
- Cherokee County2
- Clay County2
- Cleburne County2
- DeKalb County2
- Etowah County2
- Randolph County2
- St. Clair County2
- Shelby County2
- Talladega County2
- Tuscaloosa County2
- Autauga County2
- Barbour County2
- Bibb County2
- Bullock County2
- Butler County2
- Chambers County2
- Chilton County2
- Choctaw County2
- Clarke County2
27 more counties
- Coffee County2
- Coosa County2
- Crenshaw County2
- Dallas County2
- Elmore County2
- Lee County2
- Lowndes County2
- Macon County2
- Marengo County2
- Montgomery County2
- Perry County2
- Pike County2
- Russell County2
- Sumter County2
- Tallapoosa County2
- Wilcox County2
- Washington County2
- Dale County1
- Greene County1
- Hale County1
- Henry County1
- Baldwin County1
- Covington County1
- Escambia County1
- Geneva County1
- Houston County1
- Mobile County1
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.