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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Huntsville, AL

May 6, 2003Jackson County, Alabama

NWS Huntsville, AL issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2003, 8:58 AM CDT for Jackson County, Alabama. It was in force for 47 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: May 6, 2003, 8:58 AM CDT (13:58 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2003, 9:45 AM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Huntsville, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Emergency: Tornado emergency

County Jackson County, AL

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:01 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 6, 7:40 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 150 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 862 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

070 
WFUS54 KHUN 061358
TORHUN
ALC071-061445-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
856 AM CDT TUE MAY 6 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO EMERGENCY FOR...
  JACKSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 945 AM CDT

* AT 856 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
TORNADO NEAR SKYLINE...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO 
INCLUDE...ESTILLFORK......SKYLINE...AND STEVENSON.

SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM...SUCH AS A CLOSET...BATHROOM...
BASEMENT...OR HALL WAY. USE BLANKETS...QUILTS...OR PILLOWS TO COVER
YOURSELF.

LAT...LON 3498 8630 3460 8633 3469 8574 3497 8579
$$ 
JDG/RB

The office that day

Everything else NWS Huntsville, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 3:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HUN	Jackson	2 hr
May 6, 4:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	DeKalb	29 min
May 6, 4:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lauderdale	36 min
May 6, 5:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Lauderdale	45 min
May 6, 6:17 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Colbert, Lauderdale	43 min
May 6, 6:59 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Colbert, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone	31 min
May 6, 7:28 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HUN	Lauderdale	92 min
May 6, 7:30 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Limestone, Madison	30 min
May 6, 7:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HUN	Limestone, Madison	107 min
May 6, 7:56 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	HUN	Limestone, Madison	34 min
May 6, 8:17 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Emergency	HUN	Jackson	4 hr
May 6, 8:24 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	HUN	Jackson, Madison	36 min
May 6, 8:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Emergency	HUN	Lauderdale, Limestone, Madison	3 hr
May 6, 8:52 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Franklin, Lawrence	23 min
May 6, 8:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Marshall	36 min
May 6, 9:29 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	DeKalb	31 min
May 6, 9:38 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HUN	DeKalb	2 hr
May 6, 9:54 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	DeKalb	36 min
May 6, 10:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Marshall	18 min
May 6, 10:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HUN	Marshall	3 hr
May 6, 11:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Cullman, Marshall	29 min
May 6, 11:16 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Cullman, Marshall	29 min
May 6, 11:47 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	DeKalb	28 min
May 6, 11:49 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HUN	Colbert, DeKalb, Jackson, Lauderdale, Limestone, Madison	6 hr
May 6, 1:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HUN	Marshall	5 hr

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.