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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2003, 9:54 AM CST for Jackson County, Alabama. It was in force for 36 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, 9:54 AM CST (15:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2003, 10:30 AM CST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jackson 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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 165 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.
340 WFUS54 KHUN 191554 TORHUN ALC071-191630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 951 AM CST WED MAR 19 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... JACKSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ALABAMA * UNTIL 1030 AM CST * AT 943 AM CST...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A ROTATING WALL CLOUD BETWEEN GUNTERSVILLE DAM AND UNION GROVE AT 935 AM. DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR AT 952 AM INDICATED A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH OF WOODVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...WOODVILLE... WEST SCOTTSBORO...AND SKYLINE THROUGH 1030 AM. SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM...SUCH AS A CLOSET...BATHROOM... BASEMENT...OR HALL WAY. USE BLANKETS...QUILTS...OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOURSELF. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST WEDNESDAY FOR NORTHEASTERN ALABAMA. LAT...LON 3462 8633 3454 8607 3477 8582 3494 8612 $$ BURKS
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, 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.