Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Watches in 2005
Tornado Watch 629
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jul 9, 2005, 9:40 PM CDT for 11 counties in Alabama; 36 counties in Florida; 33 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 2005, 9:40 PM CDT (02:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2005, 3:51 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 80 counties
Butler County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Pike County, AL, Alachua County, FL, Baker County, FL, Bay County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Citrus County, FL, Clay County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Dixie County, FL, Duval County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Lake County, FL, Leon County, FL, Levy County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Marion County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Putnam County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Sumter County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Union County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baker County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Camden County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Echols County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Grady County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 9:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Madison | 51 min |
| Jul 9, 10:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Brooks | 36 min |
| Jul 9, 10:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Thomas | 44 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 553 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 583 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 7.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 3:55 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh and 11 more | 9 hr |
| Jul 10, 12:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler and 29 more | 57 min |
| Jul 10, 1:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler and 34 more | 10 hr |
| Jul 10, 5:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 49 more | 113 min |
| Jul 10, 6:35 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Charlotte, Citrus, DeSoto, Hardee, Hernando, Hillsborough and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 10, 12:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia and 11 more | 67 min |
| Jul 10, 12:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie and 7 more | 10 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.