Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 510
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 11, 2003, 11:30 AM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 2003, 11:30 AM EDT (15:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2003, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 65 counties
Bell County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Clay County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Estill County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Anderson County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Knox County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Marion County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Moore County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Union County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, White County, TN, Lee County, VA, Logan County, WV, Mingo County, WV
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 12:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Magoffin | 32 min |
| Jun 11, 12:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Magoffin | 47 min |
| Jun 11, 12:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Franklin, Lincoln, Moore | 40 min |
| Jun 11, 1:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Magoffin | 4 hr |
| Jun 11, 1:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt | 31 min |
| Jun 11, 1:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Floyd, Martin | 4 hr |
| Jun 11, 1:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Clay, Jackson, Owsley | 4 hr |
| Jun 11, 1:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Perry | 42 min |
| Jun 11, 1:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knott | 36 min |
| Jun 11, 1:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Grundy | 50 min |
| Jun 11, 2:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Franklin | 29 min |
| Jun 11, 2:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Scott | 37 min |
| Jun 11, 2:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | McCreary, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Overton | 30 min |
| Jun 11, 2:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pike | 41 min |
| Jun 11, 2:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Van Buren, Warren | 40 min |
| Jun 11, 2:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Johnson | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 2:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mingo | 27 min |
| Jun 11, 2:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Marion, Sequatchie | 38 min |
| Jun 11, 2:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Overton, Pickett | 44 min |
| Jun 11, 2:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Pike | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 2:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bledsoe | 52 min |
| Jun 11, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Fentress | 51 min |
| Jun 11, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Rhea | 43 min |
| Jun 11, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Roane | 55 min |
| Jun 11, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Scott | 39 min |
| Jun 11, 4:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | McCreary, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Coffee, Moore | 55 min |
| Jun 11, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Campbell | 44 min |
| Jun 11, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Grainger | 27 min |
| Jun 11, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Scott | 24 min |
| Jun 11, 4:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Magoffin | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | DeKalb, Smith | 50 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 1603 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 757 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 8:57 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyle, Bracken and 54 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 11, 10:57 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Clay, Clinton, Estill, Harlan, Jackson and 11 more | 63 min |
| Jun 11, 2:13 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Clinton, Floyd, Harlan and 12 more | 92 min |
| Jun 11, 4:01 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Caldwell, Calloway, Christian and 10 more | 29 min |
| Jun 11, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Clinton, Cumberland, Harlan, Knox, McCreary and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 11, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Barren, Calloway, Christian, Graves, Logan and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 11, 5:57 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Clinton, Cumberland, Logan, McCreary, Monroe and 2 more | 93 min |
| Jun 11, 5:53 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lauderdale, Shelby, Tipton | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 10:21 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chester, Decatur, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood and 7 more | 54 min |
| Jun 11, 11:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester and 33 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 11, 1:26 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester and 31 more | 64 min |
| Jun 11, 3:05 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albemarle, Alleghany, Amherst, Appomattox, Augusta, Bath and 49 more | 25 min |
| Jun 11, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alleghany, Amherst, Augusta, Bath, Bedford, Bland and 42 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 11, 7:07 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Amherst, Augusta, Bath, Bedford, Bland, Botetourt and 35 more | 53 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.