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Tornado Watch 608
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jul 5, 2005, 11:40 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama; Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana; 6 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2005, 11:40 PM CDT (04:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2005, 4:37 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Saint Bernard Parish, LA, George County, MS, Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Stone County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:40 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
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 1:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 1:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 2:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Jackson | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 2:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 113 min |
| Jul 6, 2:44 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jackson | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 3:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 3:59 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 4:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 4:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 893 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WWUS20 KWNS 060440
SEL8
SPC WW 060440
ALZ000-LAZ000-MSZ000-CWZ000-061300-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 608
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
1140 PM CDT TUE JUL 5 2005
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
EXTREME SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
EXTREME SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
COASTAL WATERS
EFFECTIVE THIS TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING FROM 1140 PM
UNTIL 800 AM CDT.
TORNADOES...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH...AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.
THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 50 STATUTE MILES
NORTH AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 55 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF GULFPORT
MISSISSIPPI TO 45 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF MOBILE ALABAMA. FOR A
COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE
UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU8).
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.
OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...THIS TORNADO WATCH REPLACES TORNADO
WATCH NUMBER 607. WATCH NUMBER 607 WILL NOT BE IN EFFECT AFTER
1140 PM CDT.
DISCUSSION...TROPICAL STORM CINDY WILL CONTINUE TO DRIFT NWD ACROSS
SE LA THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS. LOCAL WIND PROFILES AND
RADAR/SATELLITE STRUCTURES OF THE STORM SUGGEST THAT THE THREAT FOR
EMBEDDED SUPERCELLS AND AN ISOLATED TORNADO WILL BE FOCUSED IN A
SMALL AREA E OF THE CENTER THROUGH THE MORNING...PRIMARILY ALONG THE
MS/AL COASTS.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXTREME
TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 55 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI
WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 550. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 18035.
...THOMPSON
304,0895 310,0873 294,0873 292,0895SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 7:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Covington, Escambia, Geneva, Houston, Mobile | 118 min |
| Jul 6, 3:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw and 21 more | 58 min |
| Jul 6, 4:40 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 6, 7:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw and 24 more | 57 min |
| Jul 6, 9:14 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke and 16 more | 61 min |
| Jul 6, 11:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Coffee, Conecuh and 15 more | 87 min |
| Jul 6, 12:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Coffee, Dale, Elmore and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 2:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Coffee, Dale, Elmore and 8 more | 65 min |
| Jul 6, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Etowah, Randolph and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 6:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa and 8 more | 34 min |
| Jul 6, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne and 6 more | 6 hr |
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.