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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 515

June 11, 20034 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 11, 2003, 3:30 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 11, 2003, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 80 counties

Colbert County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Marion County, AL, Allen County, KY, Barren County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Christian County, KY, Graves County, KY, Logan County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Warren County, KY, Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lee County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Union County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Chester County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Giles County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Macon County, TN, Madison County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Perry County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Shelby County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Weakley County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Panola	48 min
Jun 11, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen	42 min
Jun 11, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Macon, Sumner	49 min
Jun 11, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Trousdale	30 min
Jun 11, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lafayette	47 min
Jun 11, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tallahatchie, Yalobusha	38 min
Jun 11, 4:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lafayette	47 min
Jun 11, 4:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Panola	31 min
Jun 11, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Metcalfe	37 min
Jun 11, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Monroe	21 min
Jun 11, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Yalobusha	33 min
Jun 11, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun	40 min
Jun 11, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lee, Union	49 min
Jun 11, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	64 min
Jun 11, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Chickasaw, Pontotoc	49 min
Jun 11, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Prentiss	34 min
Jun 11, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun	24 min
Jun 11, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tallahatchie	39 min
Jun 11, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Grenada	62 min
Jun 11, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Itawamba	48 min
Jun 11, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marion	54 min
Jun 11, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Monroe	33 min
Jun 11, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar	58 min
Jun 11, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tishomingo	18 min
Jun 11, 6:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Bolivar	3 hr
Jun 11, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Sunflower	52 min
Jun 11, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HUN	Franklin	23 min
Jun 11, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Yalobusha	64 min
Jun 11, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Tallahatchie	59 min
Jun 11, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Grenada	44 min
Jun 11, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Grenada	40 min
Jun 11, 7:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Calhoun	4 hr
Jun 11, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Bolivar	63 min
Jun 11, 7:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Chickasaw	4 hr
Jun 11, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw	50 min
Jun 11, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Grenada	59 min
Jun 11, 7:59 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Grenada	3 hr

Discussions around it

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

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 67 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -109 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 913 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 214 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 9:21 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Colbert, Fayette, Franklin, Lamar, Lauderdale, Marion and 1 more	54 min
Jun 11, 10:33 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Autauga, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw and 25 more	87 min
Jun 11, 10:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Colbert, Fayette, Franklin, Lamar, Lauderdale, Lawrence and 4 more	5 hr
Jun 11, 11:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton and 23 more	4 hr
Jun 11, 12:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Colbert, Fayette, Franklin, Lamar, Lauderdale, Lawrence and 4 more	64 min
Jun 11, 3:01 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Colbert, Fayette, Franklin, Lamar, Lauderdale, Lawrence and 3 more	29 min
Jun 11, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Blount, Cherokee, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah, Jackson and 6 more	5 hr
Jun 11, 4:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blount, Cherokee, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah and 11 more	93 min
Jun 10, 7:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyle, Bracken and 54 more	2 hr
Jun 11, 9:57 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bell, Clay, Clinton, Estill, Harlan, Jackson and 11 more	63 min
Jun 11, 10:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Clinton, Estill, Floyd and 23 more	6 hr
Jun 11, 1:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Clinton, Floyd, Harlan and 12 more	92 min
Jun 11, 4:53 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bolivar, Coahoma, DeSoto, Quitman, Tate, Tunica	3 hr
Jun 11, 6:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bolivar, Humphreys, Sunflower, Washington	5 hr
Jun 11, 7:54 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bolivar, Humphreys, Sunflower, Washington	2 hr
Jun 11, 1:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bolivar, Coahoma, Tunica	67 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.