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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2003, 1:14 PM CST for DeKalb County, Jackson County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 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, 1:14 PM CST (19:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2003, 1:45 PM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties DeKalb County, AL, Jackson County, AL
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:13 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, 11:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 246 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 573 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 530 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 779 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
676 WFUS54 KHUN 191914 TORHUN ALC049-071-191945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 107 PM CST WED MAR 19 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DEKALB COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ALABAMA EASTERN JACKSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ALABAMA * UNTIL 145 PM CST * AT 1252 PM CST...THE JACKSON COUNTY EMA REPORTED A TORNADO OVER DUTTON...AT 109 PM RADAR SHOWS STRONG ROTATION FROM A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM OVER PISGAH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. ANOTHER POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS JUST NORTHEAST OF BUCKS POCKET STATE PARK...WHILE A THIRD POSSIBLE TORNADO IS OVER THE ETOWAH COUNTY AND DEKALB COUNTY LINE OR 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KILPATRICK. * LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...ROSALIE...IDER...SYLVANIA ...POWELL...DAWSON THROUGH 145 PM. MOTORISTS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE. AS A LAST RESORT...LIE FLAT IN A DITCH...OR DEPRESSION. COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. HIGHWAY OVERPASSES ARE NOT SAFE A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CST WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEAST ALABAMA. LAT...LON 3420 8614 3422 8592 3485 8538 3502 8581 $$ JDG/JB
The 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, 11:24 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Jackson | 26 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, 1:41 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.