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Tornado Watch 611

July 6, 200514 counties in Alabama; Holmes County, Florida; 26 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jul 6, 2005, 12:30 PM CDT for 14 counties in Alabama; Holmes County, Florida; 26 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 6, 2005, 12:30 PM CDT (17:30 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 2005, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 41 counties

Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Lee County, AL, Macon County, AL, Pike County, AL, Russell County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Holmes County, FL, Baker County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Harris County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Pike County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Schley County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Troup County, GA, Upson County, GA, Webster County, GA

Warnings issued inside it

32 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 1:51 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXAutauga, Elmore24 min
Jul 6, 1:54 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXElmore, Macon36 min
Jul 6, 2:15 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXCoosa, Elmore30 min
Jul 6, 2:23 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBMXElmore2 hr
Jul 6, 2:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMacon, Tallapoosa9 min
Jul 6, 2:30 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXMacon, Tallapoosa15 min
Jul 6, 2:30 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXCoosa, Elmore, Tallapoosa15 min
Jul 6, 2:46 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXTallapoosa29 min
Jul 6, 3:13 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXTallapoosa32 min
Jul 6, 3:14 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXRussell16 min
Jul 6, 3:15 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXTallapoosa30 min
Jul 6, 3:22 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXAutauga, Chilton, Coosa, Elmore28 min
Jul 6, 3:26 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXLee19 min
Jul 6, 3:34 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXChambers26 min
Jul 6, 3:37 PM CDTTornado WarningFFCHarris, Muscogee38 min
Jul 6, 3:38 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXRussell22 min
Jul 6, 3:43 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXLee27 min
Jul 6, 3:43 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXClay, Tallapoosa23 min
Jul 6, 3:55 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXChambers35 min
Jul 6, 4:02 PM CDTTornado WarningFFCTroup28 min
Jul 6, 4:14 PM CDTTornado WarningFFCHarris31 min
Jul 6, 4:20 PM CDTTornado WarningFFCStewart15 min
Jul 6, 4:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBMXChambers, Clay, Randolph, Tallapoosa4 hr
Jul 6, 4:43 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXRussell17 min
Jul 6, 4:46 PM CDTTornado WarningFFCMeriwether44 min
Jul 6, 4:57 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXTallapoosa33 min
Jul 6, 5:26 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXRussell33 min
Jul 6, 5:29 PM CDTTornado WarningFFCMeriwether23 min
Jul 6, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXCoosa, Elmore30 min
Jul 6, 5:52 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXLee29 min
Jul 6, 5:53 PM CDTTornado WarningFFCHarris22 min
Jul 6, 6:26 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXCoosa, Elmore, Tallapoosa34 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 147 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2005-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 198 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2005-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 6 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
198 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1168 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 7:47 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaldwin, Covington, Escambia, Geneva, Houston, Mobile118 min
Jul 5, 11:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Mobile5 hr
Jul 6, 3:47 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw and 21 more58 min
Jul 6, 4:40 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke and 16 more5 hr
Jul 6, 7:48 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw and 24 more57 min
Jul 6, 9:14 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke and 16 more61 min
Jul 6, 11:48 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Coffee, Conecuh and 15 more87 min
Jul 6, 2:10 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarbour, Bullock, Chambers, Coffee, Dale, Elmore and 8 more65 min
Jul 6, 2:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCalhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Etowah, Randolph and 2 more4 hr
Jul 6, 6:11 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCalhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa and 8 more34 min
Jul 6, 6:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBullock, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne and 6 more6 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.