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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 86

March 26, 200516 counties in Alabama; 34 counties in Florida; 34 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 26, 2005, 9:40 AM CST for 16 counties in Alabama; 34 counties in Florida; 34 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 26, 2005, 9:40 AM CST (15:40 UTC)
Expired: Mar 26, 2005, 4:00 PM CST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 84 counties

Baldwin County, AL, Butler County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Pike County, AL, Washington County, AL, Alachua County, FL, Baker County, FL, Bay County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Clay County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Dixie County, FL, Duval County, FL, Escambia County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Putnam County, FL, Saint Johns County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Union County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baker County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Camden County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Echols County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Grady County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Worth County, GA

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 26, 10:36 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia, Santa Rosa	39 min
Mar 26, 11:03 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Charlton, Ware	57 min
Mar 26, 11:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Okaloosa, Santa Rosa	64 min
Mar 26, 11:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington	41 min
Mar 26, 12:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee	40 min
Mar 26, 12:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington, Crenshaw	49 min
Mar 26, 12:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee	37 min
Mar 26, 1:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pike	39 min
Mar 26, 1:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gulf	40 min
Mar 26, 2:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	36 min
Mar 26, 2:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Dale, Henry	51 min
Mar 26, 2:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Escambia	34 min
Mar 26, 2:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Columbia	47 min
Mar 26, 3:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia	45 min
Mar 26, 3:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Geneva	26 min
Mar 26, 3:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAX	Bacon, Pierce	41 min
Mar 26, 3:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile, Washington	38 min
Mar 26, 3:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke, Wilcox	45 min
Mar 26, 3:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox	37 min
Mar 26, 3:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Coffee, Dale	42 min
Mar 26, 3:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	36 min
Mar 26, 3:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Monroe, Wilcox	33 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

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 128 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: 469 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -122 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 668 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 170 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
Mar 26, 9:07 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Clarke and 20 more	113 min
Mar 26, 1:14 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baldwin, Mobile, Washington	2 hr
Mar 26, 1:45 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke and 21 more	7 hr
Mar 26, 4:51 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Henry, Houston	54 min
Mar 26, 5:54 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Autauga, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw and 20 more	66 min
Mar 26, 5:37 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alachua, Baker, Bay, Bradford, Calhoun, Citrus and 38 more	113 min
Mar 26, 5:20 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alachua, Columbia, Dixie, Gadsden, Gilchrist, Hamilton and 9 more	4 hr
Mar 26, 1:50 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Appling, Bacon, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Bibb, Bleckley and 75 more	115 min

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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.