Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 468
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 2, 2003, 9:40 PM CDT for 40 counties in Alabama; Floyd County, Haralson County, Polk County, Georgia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 2003, 9:40 PM CDT (02:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2003, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 43 counties
Autauga County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Cullman County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Marion County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Winston County, AL, Floyd County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Polk County, GA
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:40 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
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 49 min |
| Jun 2, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene | 48 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 239 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1648 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 9:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Chilton, Choctaw, Coosa, Dallas and 17 more | 116 min |
| Jun 3, 1:36 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun, Chambers and 21 more | 114 min |
| Jun 3, 11:05 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch and 31 more | 115 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Alabama, 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.