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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2003, 1:26 PM CDT for Jackson County, Madison County, Alabama. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 2003, 1:26 PM CDT (18:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2003, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Jackson County, AL, Madison County, AL
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 154 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1266 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, 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 this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 2, 11:03 AM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 2, 11:03 AM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 2, 1:00 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
ALZ001>010-016-030215- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 100 PM CDT FRI MAY 2 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH ALABAMA. .DAY ONE...(TODAY AND TONIGHT)... A FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL APPROACH THE REGION FROM THE WEST LATE THIS AFTERNOON. AHEAD OF THIS FRONT...A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. A FEW STORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LEVELS WITH THE PRIMARY THREATS BEING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE OPTIMUM TIME FOR SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS NORTHERN ALABAMA WILL BE BETWEEN NOW AND 9 PM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...(SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY)... ANOTHER VIGOROUS...BUT SLOW MOVING...SYSTEM WILL AFFECT THE REGION IN THE SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY TIME FRAME. CURRENT INDICATIONS ARE THAT THIS SYSTEM MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL MAY BE NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. CBD
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 2, 11:35 AM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
1135 AM CDT FRI MAY 02 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0347 PM GREEN HILL AL 0.75 IN HAIL
05/01/03 LAUDERDALE DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY LAUDERDALE COUNTY EMA
0359 PM CENTER STAR AL WIND DAMAGE
05/01/03 LAUDERDALE LAUDERDALE EMA REPORTED A
TREE DOWNED UTILITY POLE
AND POWER LINES NEAR THE
ANTIOCH CHURCH AND SET A
NEARBY FIELD ON FIRE.
0430 PM RED BAY AL WIND DAMAGE
05/01/03 FRANKLIN EMA OFFICIALS REPORTED
TREES DOWN IN THE RED BAY
AND OAKGROVE AREAS.
0458 PM ZIP CITY AL WIND DAMAGE
05/01/03 LAUDERDALE LAUDERDALE COUNTY EMA
OFFICIALS REPORTED TREES
DOWN IN ZIP CITY AREA.
0513 PM HILLSBORO AL WIND DAMAGE
05/01/03 LAWRENCE DAMAGE TO TRAILER HOME
NORTH OF HILLSBORO OON CR
400.
0530 PM HUNTSVILLE AL WIND DAMAGE
05/01/03 MADISON MADISON EMA OFFICIAL
REPORTED LARGE TREE LIMB
DOWN IN DOWNTOWN
HUNTSVILLE AT THE
INTERSECTION AT FRANKLIN
AND NEEL WHICH COMPLETELY
BLOCKED THE ROADWAY.The office that day
Everything else NWS Huntsville, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 1:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Jackson | 28 min |
| May 2, 1:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lauderdale | 48 min |
| May 2, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb | 35 min |
| May 2, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman, Marshall | 45 min |
| May 2, 2:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Jackson | 28 min |
| May 2, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb | 40 min |
| May 2, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lauderdale | 51 min |
| May 2, 2:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman, Marshall | 31 min |
| May 2, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Jackson | 29 min |
| May 2, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin | 47 min |
| May 2, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Marshall | 43 min |
| May 2, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lawrence | 40 min |
| May 2, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb | 50 min |
| May 2, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lauderdale | 49 min |
| May 2, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Limestone, Madison | 60 min |
| May 2, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lawrence | 48 min |
| May 2, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Jackson, Marshall | 45 min |
| May 2, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Morgan | 52 min |
| May 2, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Franklin | 39 min |
| May 2, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb | 51 min |
| May 2, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman | 58 min |
| May 2, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Jackson | 44 min |
| May 2, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Marshall | 57 min |
| May 2, 4:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Cullman, Morgan | 39 min |
| May 2, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman | 38 min |
| May 2, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb | 39 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.