Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Watches in 2005
Tornado Watch 626
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jul 8, 2005, 9:55 PM EDT for 17 counties in Florida. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2005, 9:55 PM EDT (01:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2005, 6:41 AM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Broward County, FL, Charlotte County, FL, Collier County, FL, DeSoto County, FL, Glades County, FL, Hardee County, FL, Hendry County, FL, Highlands County, FL, Lee County, FL, Manatee County, FL, Martin County, FL, Miami-Dade County, FL, Monroe County, FL, Okeechobee County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL, Saint Lucie County, FL, Sarasota County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:58 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
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 9:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward, Collier, Hendry, Palm Beach | 62 min |
| Jul 8, 10:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Glades, Hendry, Palm Beach | 64 min |
| Jul 8, 11:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward | 37 min |
| Jul 8, 11:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Glades, Hendry, Palm Beach | 32 min |
| Jul 9, 12:11 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Hardee | 38 min |
| Jul 9, 5:00 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | Highlands | 16 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
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 1720 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 817 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 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 8, 8:25 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Broward, Collier, Hendry, Lee, Miami-Dade, Monroe | 2 hr |
| Jul 9, 6:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Citrus, Collier, DeSoto and 27 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 9, 11:50 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee and 8 more | 115 min |
| Jul 9, 3:05 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Charlotte, Citrus, Collier, DeSoto, Dixie and 21 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 9, 6:13 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Charlotte, Citrus, Collier, Columbia, DeSoto and 27 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
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.