Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2003, 9:15 AM CST for Marshall County, Alabama. It was in force for 45 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, 9:15 AM CST (15:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2003, 10:00 AM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Marshall 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 141 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.
410 WFUS54 KHUN 191515 TORHUN ALC095-191600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 913 AM CST WED MAR 19 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MARSHALL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ALABAMA * UNTIL 1000 AM CST * AT 908 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 1 MILE SOUTH OF ARAB...MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...ARAB THROUGH 925 AM...UNION GROVE BY 930 AM...GUNTERSVILLE DAM BY 940 AM...AND GRANT BY 950 AM. SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM...SUCH AS A CLOSET...BATHROOM... BASEMENT...OR HALL WAY. USE BLANKETS...QUILTS...OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOURSELF. 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 NOON CST WEDNESDAY FOR NORTHEASTERN ALABAMA. LAT...LON 3434 8661 3426 8641 3451 8613 3461 8644 $$ BURKS/GORDON/BLAIR
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, 9:22 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 |
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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.