Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2003, 11:24 AM CST for Jackson County, Alabama. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 2003, 11:24 AM CST (17:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2003, 11:50 AM CST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jackson County, AL
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 8:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 649 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
824
WFUS54 KHUN 191724
TORHUN
ALC071-191750-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
1119 AM CST WED MAR 19 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
JACKSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ALABAMA
* UNTIL 1150 AM CST
* AT 1113 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
3 STORMS WITH ROTATION THAT COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO. THE STRONGEST
IS 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF PAINT ROCK. ANOTHER STORM WITH ROTATION IS
MOVING OUT OF MARSHALL COUNTY NEAR GRANT...AND WILL BE MOVING INTO
WOODVILLE. A THIRD STORM COULD CLIP FRANCISCO. ALL OF JACKSON
COUNTY IS UNDER A STRONG THREAT OF HAVING A TORNADO AS ALL THE
STORMS MOVE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
* LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS
INCLUDE...PAINT ROCK...WOODVILLE...TRENTON AND SKYLINE.
THIS STORM SHOWS STRONG ROTATION...AND MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY
TIME. DO NOT WAIT...GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW PUT AS MANY WALLS BETWEEN
YOU AND THE OUTSIDE. AS A LAST RESORT...LIE FLAT IN A DITCH...OR
DEPRESSION.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST WEDNESDAY FOR
NORTHEASTERN ALABAMA.
LAT...LON 3457 8593 3464 8635 3489 8633 3494 8624
3499 8630 3496 8577 3477 8583
$$
JDG/JB/ABThe office that day
Everything else NWS Huntsville, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 8:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Limestone, Madison | 25 min |
| Mar 19, 8:40 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Madison | 20 min |
| Mar 19, 8:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman | 25 min |
| Mar 19, 8:58 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Madison | 22 min |
| Mar 19, 9:03 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | DeKalb | 27 min |
| Mar 19, 9:15 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Marshall | 45 min |
| Mar 19, 9:22 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Madison | 38 min |
| Mar 19, 9:54 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Jackson | 36 min |
| Mar 19, 10:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Madison | 29 min |
| Mar 19, 10:38 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Madison | 22 min |
| Mar 19, 10:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Jackson | 37 min |
| Mar 19, 10:59 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Marshall | 31 min |
| Mar 19, 11:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Madison | 22 min |
| Mar 19, 11:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Marshall | 43 min |
| Mar 19, 11:57 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | DeKalb, Marshall | 43 min |
| Mar 19, 12:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | DeKalb, Jackson | 38 min |
| Mar 19, 1:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | DeKalb, Jackson | 31 min |
| Mar 19, 1:41 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | DeKalb, Jackson | 6 hr |
| Mar 19, 1:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb, Jackson | 27 min |
| Mar 19, 2:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | DeKalb | 30 min |
| Mar 19, 2:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | DeKalb | 32 min |
| Mar 19, 3:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb | 19 min |
| Mar 19, 3:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | DeKalb | 31 min |
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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.