Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 2003, 4:08 PM CST for Coffee County, Geneva County, Alabama. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 14, 2003, 4:08 PM CST (22:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2003, 4:45 PM CST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Coffee County, AL, Geneva County, AL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 4:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 964 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KTAE 142207 SVRTLH ALC031-061-142245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 405 PM CST FRI MAR 14 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... COFFEE COUNTY IN ALABAMA GENEVA COUNTY IN ALABAMA * UNTIL 445 PM CST * AT 405 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 5 MILES NORTH OF GANER...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OPP...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SAMSON...KINSTON BY 410 PM CST... ALBERTON BY 415 PM CST... SELLERSVILLE...INO BY 420 PM CST... FAIRVIEW BY 425 PM CST... GOODMAN...COFFEE SPRINGS BY 430 PM CST... CENTRAL CITY...CHANCELLOR BY 440 PM CST... THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS LARGE HAIL...WITH BRIEF TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS AND GUSTY WINDS ALSO POSSIBLE. LAT...LON 3123 8620 3103 8611 3105 8578 3157 8593 $$ 17-GOULD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 4:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Geneva | 38 min |
| Mar 14, 5:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee | 37 min |
| Mar 14, 5:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning 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.