Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches in 2005
Tornado Watch 610
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jul 6, 2005, 4:40 AM CDT for 22 counties in Alabama; 6 counties in Florida. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2005, 4:40 AM CDT (09:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2005, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties
Baldwin County, AL, Barbour 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, Dale County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Pike County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:39 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
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 4:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 25 min |
| Jul 6, 4:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile, Washington | 93 min |
| Jul 6, 5:24 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 5:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 5:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 5:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Monroe, Washington | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 6:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 32 min |
| Jul 6, 6:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile, Washington | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 6:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 6:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 25 min |
| Jul 6, 7:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia, Monroe | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 7:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Monroe, Washington | 17 hr |
| Jul 6, 7:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Monroe, Washington | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 8:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo, Sumter | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 8:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Monroe, Washington | 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 270 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
SPC 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 5, 11:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Mobile | 5 hr |
| Jul 6, 3:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw and 21 more | 58 min |
| 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.