Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches in 2005
Tornado Watch 215
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 30, 2005, 5:05 AM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 30, 2005, 5:05 AM CDT (10:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2005, 12:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 71 counties
Autauga County, AL, Baldwin County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Bartow County, GA, Butts County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Troup County, GA, Upson County, GA, Jefferson Parish, LA, Lafourche Parish, LA, Orleans Parish, LA, Plaquemines Parish, LA, Saint Bernard Parish, LA, Saint Charles Parish, LA, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Stone County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:05 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
58 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 5:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee, Cleburne | 39 min |
| Apr 30, 5:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Polk | 52 min |
| Apr 30, 5:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 35 min |
| Apr 30, 5:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 48 min |
| Apr 30, 5:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow, Gordon | 43 min |
| Apr 30, 5:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry | 56 min |
| Apr 30, 5:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa | 50 min |
| Apr 30, 5:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 60 min |
| Apr 30, 5:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Haralson | 39 min |
| Apr 30, 5:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay | 51 min |
| Apr 30, 5:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 65 min |
| Apr 30, 5:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Stone | 34 min |
| Apr 30, 5:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Paulding | 46 min |
| Apr 30, 5:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 43 min |
| Apr 30, 5:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 43 min |
| Apr 30, 5:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 48 min |
| Apr 30, 5:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cobb | 48 min |
| Apr 30, 6:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe, Wilcox | 57 min |
| Apr 30, 6:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 38 min |
| Apr 30, 6:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 67 min |
| Apr 30, 6:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore | 63 min |
| Apr 30, 6:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa | 14 min |
| Apr 30, 6:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Stone | 28 min |
| Apr 30, 6:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers | 66 min |
| Apr 30, 6:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Dallas | 33 min |
| Apr 30, 6:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh | 60 min |
| Apr 30, 6:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 39 min |
| Apr 30, 6:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 34 min |
| Apr 30, 6:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 49 min |
| Apr 30, 6:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Lowndes | 47 min |
| Apr 30, 6:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee | 67 min |
| Apr 30, 6:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard, Troup | 55 min |
| Apr 30, 6:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 18 min |
| Apr 30, 7:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 59 min |
| Apr 30, 7:02 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 43 min |
| Apr 30, 7:11 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 49 min |
| Apr 30, 7:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers | 17 min |
| Apr 30, 7:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 56 min |
| Apr 30, 7:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee | 38 min |
| Apr 30, 7:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pike | 51 min |
| Apr 30, 7:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock, Macon | 45 min |
| Apr 30, 7:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 42 min |
| Apr 30, 7:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jackson | 33 min |
| Apr 30, 7:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 47 min |
| Apr 30, 7:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale | 39 min |
| Apr 30, 7:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 63 min |
| Apr 30, 8:03 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock | 12 min |
| Apr 30, 8:12 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 37 min |
| Apr 30, 8:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 91 min |
| Apr 30, 8:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 31 min |
| Apr 30, 8:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 45 min |
| Apr 30, 8:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Russell | 34 min |
| Apr 30, 8:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Muscogee | 32 min |
| Apr 30, 9:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 56 min |
| Apr 30, 9:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 115 min |
| Apr 30, 9:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 54 min |
| Apr 30, 10:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 39 min |
| Apr 30, 11:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 3 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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 352 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1315 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 8:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne and 26 more | 97 min |
| Apr 29, 9:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson, Lamar and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 30, 1:39 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson, Lamar and 9 more | 96 min |
| Apr 30, 2:40 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Choctaw, Cullman and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 30, 4:42 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler and 43 more | 93 min |
| Apr 30, 6:41 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers and 29 more | 94 min |
| Apr 30, 7:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 6 hr |
| Apr 30, 11:02 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Covington, Escambia, Mobile | 58 min |
| Apr 30, 11:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Columbia, Hamilton, Jefferson, Lafayette, Madison and 2 more | 27 min |
| Apr 30, 12:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baker, Bay, Calhoun, Columbia, Franklin, Gadsden and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 30, 8:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Columbia, Lincoln, Richmond | 6 hr |
| Apr 29, 10:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 30, 1:08 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Avoyelles, Concordia, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Livingston and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 29, 9:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Marshall | 97 min |
| Apr 30, 2:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Marshall | 95 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.