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Tornado Watch 613
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jul 6, 2005, 2:45 PM CDT for 8 counties in Alabama; 16 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2005, 2:45 PM CDT (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2005, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 24 counties
Calhoun County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Randolph County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Bartow County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Polk County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:48 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
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 3:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Clay, Tallapoosa | 23 min |
| Jul 6, 4:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Randolph | 40 min |
| Jul 6, 4:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Heard | 41 min |
| Jul 6, 4:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Chambers, Clay, Randolph, Tallapoosa | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Coweta | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 46 min |
| Jul 6, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FFC | Fayette | 25 min |
| Jul 6, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 23 min |
| Jul 6, 6:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Coosa, Talladega | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton | 37 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WWUS20 KWNS 061942
SEL3
SPC WW 061942
ALZ000-GAZ000-070000-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 613
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
245 PM CDT WED JUL 6 2005
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
NORTHEAST ALABAMA
NORTHWEST GEORGIA
EFFECTIVE THIS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 245 PM UNTIL
700 PM CDT.
TORNADOES...HAIL TO 0.5 INCH IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.
THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 35 STATUTE MILES
NORTH AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES WEST OF ANNISTON ALABAMA
TO 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF ATLANTA GEORGIA. FOR A COMPLETE
DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU3).
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...CONTINUE...WW 611...WW 612...
DISCUSSION...CENTER OF CINDY WILL CONTINUE LIFTING NEWD ACROSS
CENTRAL AL THIS AFTERNOON...ALONG A PSEUDO WARM FRONT EXTENDING NWWD
INTO CENTRAL GA. THIS BOUNDARY MAY LIFT NWD INTO OR NEAR THE ATL
METRO BY THE EARLY EVENING WITHIN REGION OF STRONG SURFACE PRESSURE
FALLS. A WARM AND VERY MOIST BOUNDARY LAYER WILL CONTINUE
SUPPORTING SUPERCELLS AS BOTH LOW AND DEEP LAYER SHEAR REMAINS
IMPRESSIVE. TORNADOES WILL BE A DISTINCT THREAT...ESPECIALLY NEAR
THE SURFACE FRONT AND INVOF CIRCULATION CENTER.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 0.5 INCH. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500.
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 21035.
...EVANS
340,0862 342,0840 332,0840 330,0862SPC 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, 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, 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.