Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 28, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2003, 9:29 AM CDT for DeKalb 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
- May 6, 2003, 9:29 AM CDT (14:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2003, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County DeKalb County, AL
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 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
- 386 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 521 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KHUN 061429 TORHUN ALC049-061500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 927 AM CDT TUE MAY 6 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DEKALB COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ALABAMA * UNTIL 1000 AM CDT * AT 926 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER IDER...OR 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT PAYNE MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...HAMMONDVILLE......IDER...MENTONE AND SEQUOYAH CAVERNS. THIS STORM SHOWS STRONG ROTATION...AND MAY PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. IT HAS PRODUCED FUNNEL CLOUDS NORTH OF SCOTTSBORO OVER THE PAST HOUR. DO NOT WAIT...GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW PUT AS MANY WALLS BETWEEN YOU AND THE OUTSIDE. LAT...LON 3437 8565 3465 8576 3485 8559 3457 8553 $$ 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 | HUN | Limestone, Madison | 34 min |
| May 6, 8:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Jackson | 4 hr |
| May 6, 8:24 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Jackson, Madison | 36 min |
| May 6, 8:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | 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, 8:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Jackson | 47 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 |
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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.