Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 41
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 13, 2003, 10:10 AM CST for 43 counties in Alabama; 4 counties in Georgia; 12 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 13, 2003, 10:10 AM CST (16:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 2003, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 59 counties
Autauga County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Butler County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Cullman County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Marion County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Winston County, AL, Bartow County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Polk County, GA, Clarke County, MS, Forrest County, MS, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Perry County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:14 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.
Warnings issued inside it
33 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 11:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Pickens | 54 min |
| Mar 13, 11:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 66 min |
| Mar 13, 11:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 56 min |
| Mar 13, 12:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper, Newton | 60 min |
| Mar 13, 12:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 61 min |
| Mar 13, 12:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale | 42 min |
| Mar 13, 12:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Perry, Tuscaloosa | 63 min |
| Mar 13, 12:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Sumter | 46 min |
| Mar 13, 1:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 40 min |
| Mar 13, 1:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 43 min |
| Mar 13, 1:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 29 min |
| Mar 13, 1:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 44 min |
| Mar 13, 1:46 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Clarke | 119 min |
| Mar 13, 1:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 28 min |
| Mar 13, 1:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 50 min |
| Mar 13, 2:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa, Talladega | 25 min |
| Mar 13, 2:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay | 67 min |
| Mar 13, 2:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 34 min |
| Mar 13, 2:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Perry | 25 min |
| Mar 13, 2:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene | 52 min |
| Mar 13, 2:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene, Wayne | 38 min |
| Mar 13, 2:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore | 51 min |
| Mar 13, 2:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe | 31 min |
| Mar 13, 3:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 41 min |
| Mar 13, 3:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 25 min |
| Mar 13, 3:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 50 min |
| Mar 13, 3:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 44 min |
| Mar 13, 3:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe | 29 min |
| Mar 13, 3:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 33 min |
| Mar 13, 3:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe | 30 min |
| Mar 13, 3:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 45 min |
| Mar 13, 3:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George | 44 min |
| Mar 13, 4:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 45 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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 428 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 783 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 1:58 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Covington, Escambia, Geneva, Houston | 3 hr |
| Mar 13, 9:39 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Calhoun and 40 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 13, 12:59 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Calhoun, Chilton and 30 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 13, 2:15 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler and 35 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 13, 3:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 13, 5:33 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Covington | 87 min |
| Mar 13, 5:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barbour, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston, Russell | 5 hr |
| Mar 13, 8:39 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill and 68 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 13, 8:55 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch, Camden and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 13, 12:55 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fannin, Gilmer, Habersham, Murray, Rabun, Stephens and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 13, 8:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 49 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 13, 10:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Hancock, Harrison | 5 hr |
| Mar 13, 11:29 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw and 39 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 13, 1:26 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hancock | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Alabama, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Mississippi, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 2003Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2003
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.