Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 10
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jan 13, 2005, 7:15 AM CST for 18 counties in Alabama; 32 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 13, 2005, 7:15 AM CST (13:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 13, 2005, 1:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 50 counties
Blount County, AL, Colbert County, AL, Cullman County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marion County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Morgan County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL, Bedford County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Clay County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Davidson County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Giles County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Macon County, TN, Marion County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, Moore County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Smith County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, White County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:16 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
36 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 7:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Jackson, Madison | 39 days |
| Jan 13, 7:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lauderdale | 39 days |
| Jan 13, 7:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin | 39 days |
| Jan 13, 7:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 48 min |
| Jan 13, 7:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 31 min |
| Jan 13, 8:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Davidson, Humphreys, Robertson | 39 days |
| Jan 13, 8:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 59 min |
| Jan 13, 8:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Benton, Dickson, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys, Maury and 1 more | 39 days |
| Jan 13, 8:23 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette | 52 min |
| Jan 13, 8:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 50 min |
| Jan 13, 8:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lawrence, Limestone, Madison | 39 days |
| Jan 13, 8:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cheatham, Robertson, Sumner | 39 days |
| Jan 13, 8:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson, Maury, Williamson | 39 days |
| Jan 13, 8:56 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Limestone | 34 min |
| Jan 13, 8:57 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 63 min |
| Jan 13, 9:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marshall, Rutherford, Wilson | 39 days |
| Jan 13, 9:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Franklin, Lincoln | 39 days |
| Jan 13, 9:15 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | DeKalb, Madison | 99 days |
| Jan 13, 9:17 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Madison, Marshall | 229 days |
| Jan 13, 9:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Walker | 66 min |
| Jan 13, 9:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lauderdale, Morgan | 39 days |
| Jan 13, 9:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Bedford, Sumner | 39 days |
| Jan 13, 9:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 62 min |
| Jan 13, 9:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lauderdale | 39 days |
| Jan 13, 9:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Macon, Trousdale | 39 days |
| Jan 13, 9:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, DeKalb, Rutherford, Smith | 39 days |
| Jan 13, 9:43 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin | 255 days |
| Jan 13, 9:44 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Lauderdale, Madison | 255 days |
| Jan 13, 9:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Cannon, Van Buren | 39 days |
| Jan 13, 9:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman, Limestone, Marshall | 39 days |
| Jan 13, 9:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Grundy | 39 days |
| Jan 13, 9:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Cumberland | 39 days |
| Jan 13, 10:10 AM CST | Tornado Warning | HUN | Colbert, Franklin | 255 days |
| Jan 13, 10:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Grundy | 39 days |
| Jan 13, 10:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Bledsoe, Marion, Sequatchie | 39 days |
| Jan 13, 11:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Jackson, Madison | 39 days |
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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 891 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 301 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 5:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Choctaw, Clarke, Greene, Hale, Marengo and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 13, 7:03 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Jefferson, Lamar and 7 more | 87 min |
| Jan 13, 9:53 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, DeKalb, Etowah and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Jan 13, 10:12 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler and 31 more | 63 min |
| Jan 13, 10:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler and 29 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 13, 1:13 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Jan 12, 9:28 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lake | 32 min |
| Jan 13, 11:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Claiborne and 26 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Alabama, 2005Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2005
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.