Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2003, 8:40 AM CST for Madison County, Alabama. It was in force for 20 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, 8:40 AM CST (14:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2003, 9:00 AM CST
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Madison County, AL
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, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 136 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.
638 WFUS54 KHUN 191440 TORHUN ALC089-191500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 837 AM CST WED MAR 19 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN MADISON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 900 AM CST * AT 833 AM CST...MADISON FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR I565 AND WALL TRIANA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...NORTHWEST HUNTSVILLE...MADISON AND OAKWOOD COLLEGE THROUGH 9 AM. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO IN WEST HUNTSVILLE TO MADISON THROUGH 9 AM. GET INSIDE AND SEEK SHLETER NOW A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST WEDNESDAY FOR NORTHEASTERN ALABAMA. LAT...LON 3499 8678 3469 8678 3485 8642 3500 8650 $$
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, 8:50 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, 1:14 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 |
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.