Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches in 2005
Tornado Watch 132
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 6, 2005, 11:05 AM CDT for 26 counties in Alabama; 4 counties in Florida; 5 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 6, 2005, 11:05 AM CDT (16:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2005, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties
Autauga County, AL, Baldwin County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pike County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Walton County, FL, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:05 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
27 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 11:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison | 29 min |
| Apr 6, 11:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison, Jackson | 62 min |
| Apr 6, 12:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison, Jackson | 34 min |
| Apr 6, 1:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 44 min |
| Apr 6, 1:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jackson | 27 min |
| Apr 6, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jackson | 30 min |
| Apr 6, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jackson | 30 min |
| Apr 6, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 37 min |
| Apr 6, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 47 min |
| Apr 6, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 28 min |
| Apr 6, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jackson | 36 min |
| Apr 6, 4:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 93 min |
| Apr 6, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 47 min |
| Apr 6, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 33 min |
| Apr 6, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 31 min |
| Apr 6, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 29 min |
| Apr 6, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 26 min |
| Apr 6, 5:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Geneva | 3 hr |
| Apr 6, 5:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 2 hr |
| Apr 6, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 45 min |
| Apr 6, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 42 min |
| Apr 6, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 26 min |
| Apr 6, 6:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Jackson | 3 hr |
| Apr 6, 6:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 3 hr |
| Apr 6, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 38 min |
| Apr 6, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee | 37 min |
| Apr 6, 6:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Coffee | 2 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1203 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 7:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Greene, Mobile, Pickens, Sumter, Washington | 6 hr |
| Apr 6, 9:29 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw, Greene, Mobile, Pickens, Sumter, Washington | 2 hr |
| Apr 6, 10:50 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington and 9 more | 55 min |
| Apr 6, 1:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke and 20 more | 84 min |
| Apr 6, 3:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke and 20 more | 92 min |
| Apr 6, 4:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Colbert, Coosa, Cullman and 19 more | 37 min |
| Apr 6, 5:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Chilton, Cullman, Fayette, Greene, Hale and 8 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 6, 6:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke and 21 more | 59 min |
| Apr 6, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 5, 10:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Covington, Franklin and 16 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 6, 2:55 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington and 26 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 6, 5:45 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 36 more | 90 min |
| Apr 6, 7:46 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bolivar, Issaquena, Washington | 119 min |
| Apr 6, 10:40 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Claiborne, Hinds, Holmes and 11 more | 65 min |
| Apr 6, 11:05 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 51 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 6, 1:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto, Lafayette and 12 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 6, 3:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto, Lafayette and 12 more | 87 min |
| Apr 6, 5:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto, Lafayette and 12 more | 91 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.