Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches in 2005
Tornado Watch 630
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jul 10, 2005, 3:55 AM CDT for 17 counties in Alabama; 24 counties in Florida; 27 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 2005, 3:55 AM CDT (08:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2005, 1:16 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 68 counties
Baldwin 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, Escambia County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Pike County, AL, Washington County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Dixie County, FL, Escambia 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, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baker County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun 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, Grady County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Ware County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 10:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Leon | 97 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
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 174 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 9, 9:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale and 5 more | 6 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.