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Tornado Watch 120
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 1, 2005, 2:05 AM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 1, 2005, 2:05 AM CST (08:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 2005, 7:00 AM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 27 counties
Baldwin County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Washington County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Walton County, FL, Orleans Parish, LA, Saint Bernard Parish, LA, Saint Tammany Parish, LA, Washington Parish, LA, Forrest County, MS, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Marion County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS, Walthall County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:08 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
18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 2:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 39 min |
| Apr 1, 2:25 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 4 hr |
| Apr 1, 2:32 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 4 hr |
| Apr 1, 2:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 46 min |
| Apr 1, 3:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Covington, Forrest, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Lamar, Marion | 6 hr |
| Apr 1, 3:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone | 37 min |
| Apr 1, 3:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Saint Tammany | 101 min |
| Apr 1, 3:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 36 min |
| Apr 1, 4:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 67 min |
| Apr 1, 4:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 31 min |
| Apr 1, 4:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 37 min |
| Apr 1, 4:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 75 min |
| Apr 1, 5:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 41 min |
| Apr 1, 5:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 41 min |
| Apr 1, 5:29 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 4 hr |
| Apr 1, 6:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 53 min |
| Apr 1, 6:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 3 hr |
| Apr 1, 6:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 30 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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 1854 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 456 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 7.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 1:29 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Clarke, Escambia, Mobile, Washington | 2 hr |
| Apr 1, 11:16 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Limestone | 2 hr |
| Apr 1, 11:20 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Choctaw, Cullman, Dallas and 18 more | 115 min |
| Apr 1, 11:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Colbert, Cullman and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 1, 3:00 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Cullman, Dallas, Greene and 13 more | 90 min |
| Apr 1, 3:19 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Mobile, Monroe and 2 more | 116 min |
| Apr 1, 4:55 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Butler, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne and 12 more | 65 min |
| Apr 1, 7:44 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bay, Bradford, Calhoun, Columbia and 16 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 1, 10:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Calhoun, Clay, Columbia and 17 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 1, 1:16 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie and 10 more | 119 min |
| Apr 1, 5:23 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Calhoun, Clay, Columbia and 17 more | 67 min |
| Mar 31, 6:49 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Beauregard, Bienville, Bossier, Caddo and 16 more | 56 min |
| Mar 31, 7:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Claiborne, De Soto and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 31, 8:25 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis, Vermilion | 65 min |
| Mar 31, 8:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 31, 8:59 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ascension, Catahoula, Concordia, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville and 8 more | 61 min |
| Mar 31, 9:27 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Claiborne, De Soto and 15 more | 63 min |
| Mar 31, 10:53 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Avoyelles, Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Catahoula and 29 more | 67 min |
| Mar 31, 11:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Avoyelles, Bienville, Caldwell, Catahoula, Claiborne, Concordia and 27 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 1, 12:25 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis and 3 more | 95 min |
| Apr 1, 4:14 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Saint Helena, Tangipahoa, Washington | 2 hr |
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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.