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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 208

May 2, 20035 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 2, 2003, 1:55 PM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 2, 2003, 1:55 PM CDT (18:55 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2003, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 104 counties

Blount County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Colbert County, AL, Cullman County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marion County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL, Bartow County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Heard County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Murray County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Polk County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, Walker County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Alcorn County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Clay County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Lee County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Union County, MS, Webster County, MS, Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Graham County, NC, Swain County, NC, Bedford County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Chester County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Giles County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Marion County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, McMinn County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Moore County, TN, Polk County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Wayne County, TN

Warnings issued inside it

97 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lauderdale	48 min
May 2, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Monroe	33 min
May 2, 2:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Wayne	29 min
May 2, 2:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	DeKalb	35 min
May 2, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar, Marion	45 min
May 2, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Cullman, Marshall	45 min
May 2, 2:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Jackson	28 min
May 2, 2:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dade	26 min
May 2, 2:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Franklin	11 min
May 2, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount	32 min
May 2, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lawrence, Wayne	42 min
May 2, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	DeKalb	40 min
May 2, 2:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lowndes	29 min
May 2, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lincoln, Marshall	38 min
May 2, 2:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lauderdale	51 min
May 2, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee, Etowah	49 min
May 2, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Cullman, Marshall	31 min
May 2, 2:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Jackson	29 min
May 2, 2:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette	39 min
May 2, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Walker	35 min
May 2, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Franklin	47 min
May 2, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga	30 min
May 2, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount	29 min
May 2, 3:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pickens	42 min
May 2, 3:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marion	26 min
May 2, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Walker	47 min
May 2, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lincoln, Marshall	31 min
May 2, 3:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pickens	43 min
May 2, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Marshall	43 min
May 2, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee	56 min
May 2, 3:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lawrence	40 min
May 2, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	DeKalb	50 min
May 2, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd, Gordon	35 min
May 2, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Colbert, Lauderdale	49 min
May 2, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee, Etowah	46 min
May 2, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Limestone, Madison	60 min
May 2, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga	24 min
May 2, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall	47 min
May 2, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lincoln	26 min
May 2, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Lawrence	48 min
May 2, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Maury	56 min
May 2, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Jackson, Marshall	45 min
May 2, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd	30 min
May 2, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	29 min
May 2, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Morgan	52 min
May 2, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pickens	51 min
May 2, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Cleburne	35 min
May 2, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Cherokee	62 min
May 2, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee	30 min
May 2, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Franklin	39 min
May 2, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	DeKalb	51 min
May 2, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Coffee	33 min
May 2, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton	32 min
May 2, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Cullman	58 min
May 2, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Jackson	44 min
May 2, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Marshall	57 min
May 2, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Hickman, Maury	46 min
May 2, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lincoln	30 min
May 2, 4:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HUN	Cullman, Morgan	39 min
May 2, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cleburne	49 min
May 2, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount, Walker	46 min
May 2, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fulton	46 min
May 2, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Winston	28 min
May 2, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marshall	41 min
May 2, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Cullman	38 min
May 2, 5:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OHX	Giles, Lincoln	37 min
May 2, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	51 min
May 2, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	St. Clair	26 min
May 2, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Etowah	41 min
May 2, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Polk	35 min
May 2, 5:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Walker	24 min
May 2, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	44 min
May 2, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Talladega	26 min
May 2, 5:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Etowah	40 min
May 2, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	DeKalb	39 min
May 2, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Haralson	24 min
May 2, 5:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Jefferson	66 min
May 2, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles	34 min
May 2, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount	33 min
May 2, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall	48 min
May 2, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Cherokee	60 min
May 2, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lincoln	27 min
May 2, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fayette	37 min
May 2, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	St. Clair	43 min
May 2, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cleburne	54 min
May 2, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Shelby	23 min
May 2, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Giles, Lawrence	32 min
May 2, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Hale, Talladega	45 min
May 2, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette	23 min
May 2, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Haralson, Polk	36 min
May 2, 6:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Shelby	65 min
May 2, 6:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Calhoun	23 min
May 2, 6:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Jefferson	18 min
May 2, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay, Randolph	62 min
May 2, 6:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Carroll, Haralson	29 min
May 2, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	23 min
May 2, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cleburne	16 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 134 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -350 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1399 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 248 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 1:43 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blount, Colbert, Cullman, Etowah, Fayette, Franklin and 14 more	92 min
May 2, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 26 more	4 hr
May 2, 4:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 25 more	93 min
May 2, 5:05 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler and 37 more	5 hr
May 2, 5:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Colbert and 23 more	84 min
May 2, 1:23 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Rabun	2 hr
May 2, 1:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Banks, Franklin, Habersham, Hall, Hart, Rabun and 1 more	5 hr
May 2, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Columbia, Glascock, McDuffie, Richmond	5 hr
May 2, 4:43 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baldwin, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Chattahoochee and 36 more	92 min
May 2, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baldwin, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts and 58 more	6 hr
May 2, 6:17 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Columbia, Glascock, Richmond	88 min
May 2, 2:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Amite, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw and 33 more	114 min
May 2, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Choctaw and 21 more	6 hr
May 2, 6:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Choctaw and 21 more	119 min
May 2, 3:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alamance, Anson, Bladen, Cabarrus, Chatham, Cumberland and 23 more	113 min
May 2, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Beaufort, Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Craven, Duplin and 11 more	3 hr
May 2, 8:52 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bledsoe, Campbell, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay and 23 more	113 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.