Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 46
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 14, 2003, 4:05 PM CST for 19 counties in Alabama; 5 counties in Florida. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 14, 2003, 4:05 PM CST (22:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2003, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 24 counties
Baldwin County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Lee County, AL, Macon County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Pike County, AL, Russell County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Walton County, FL
Warnings issued inside it
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 4:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Geneva | 38 min |
| Mar 14, 4:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Geneva | 37 min |
| Mar 14, 4:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 44 min |
| Mar 14, 4:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 43 min |
| Mar 14, 4:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 25 min |
| Mar 14, 5:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 60 min |
| Mar 14, 5:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee | 37 min |
| Mar 14, 5:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 53 min |
| Mar 14, 5:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 37 min |
| Mar 14, 5:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale | 60 min |
| Mar 14, 6:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee | 63 min |
| Mar 14, 6:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 61 min |
| Mar 14, 6:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 35 min |
| Mar 14, 6:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 33 min |
| Mar 14, 8:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 53 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 537 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 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 14, 11:58 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 13, 7:48 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson and 5 more | 57 min |
| Mar 14, 1:36 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Glades, Hendry, Highlands, Okeechobee | 114 min |
| Mar 14, 4:54 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Broward, Glades, Hendry, Highlands, Okeechobee, Palm Beach | 66 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.