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Tornado Watch 632

July 10, 200513 counties in Florida; 42 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jul 10, 2005, 1:40 PM EDT for 13 counties in Florida; 42 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 10, 2005, 1:40 PM EDT (17:40 UTC)
Expired
Jul 11, 2005, 12:00 AM EDT
In force
10 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 55 counties

Alachua County, FL, Baker County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Clay County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Dixie County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Putnam County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Union County, FL, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Candler County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Cook County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Echols County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Ware County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 2:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJones, Monroe29 min
Jul 10, 5:14 PM EDTTornado WarningJAXSuwannee35 min
Jul 10, 6:15 PM EDTTornado WarningTAETift, Turner30 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 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 157 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2005-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 19 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2005-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 157 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
19 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
586 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
157 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 10:40 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAlachua, Baker, Bay, Bradford, Calhoun, Citrus and 30 more6 hr
Jul 10, 4:55 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBay, Calhoun, Columbia, Dixie, Escambia, Franklin and 18 more9 hr
Jul 10, 7:35 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCCharlotte, Citrus, DeSoto, Hardee, Hernando, Hillsborough and 5 more6 hr
Jul 10, 1:08 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia and 11 more67 min
Jul 10, 1:48 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBay, Calhoun, Escambia, Gadsden, Holmes, Jackson and 8 more57 min
Jul 10, 2:20 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBay, Calhoun, Escambia, Gadsden, Holmes, Jackson and 10 more10 hr
Jul 10, 6:22 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGadsden113 min

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.