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Tornado Watch 633

July 10, 200540 counties in Alabama; 16 counties in Florida; 52 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jul 10, 2005, 1:20 PM CDT for 40 counties in Alabama; 16 counties in Florida; 52 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 10, 2005, 1:20 PM CDT (18:20 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 2005, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
10 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 108 counties

Autauga County, AL, Baldwin County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Clay County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Hale County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, Shelby County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Escambia County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Butts County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Grady County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lee County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Schley County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Troup County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Worth County, GA

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 1:30 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBEscambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa60 min
Jul 10, 1:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCJones, Monroe29 min
Jul 10, 1:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLamar, Spalding47 min
Jul 10, 1:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCButts, Monroe49 min
Jul 10, 2:03 PM CDTTornado WarningFFCButts, Monroe31 min
Jul 10, 2:26 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBEscambia, Santa Rosa64 min
Jul 10, 2:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCButts, Henry45 min
Jul 10, 3:29 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBEscambia61 min
Jul 10, 4:35 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBEscambia25 min
Jul 10, 4:38 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBEscambia2 hr
Jul 10, 4:50 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBMXAutauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 33 more6 hr
Jul 10, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBEscambia45 min
Jul 10, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WarningTAETift, Turner30 min
Jul 10, 5:20 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBChoctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Monroe, Wilcox4 hr
Jul 10, 5:28 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBBaldwin, Monroe47 min
Jul 10, 6:02 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBMonroe43 min
Jul 10, 6:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBEscambia2 hr
Jul 10, 7:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBButler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia, Monroe and 1 more4 hr
Jul 10, 10:31 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBMXFayette, Greene, Hale, Jefferson, Lamar, Marion and 4 more6 hr

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2005-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 70 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2005-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 250 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
70 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-157 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
751 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
250 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
196 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, 9:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCButler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale and 5 more6 hr
Jul 10, 3:55 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh and 11 more9 hr
Jul 10, 12:48 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler and 29 more57 min
Jul 10, 5:22 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 49 more113 min
Jul 10, 6:35 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCCharlotte, Citrus, DeSoto, Hardee, Hernando, Hillsborough and 5 more6 hr
Jul 10, 12:08 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia and 11 more67 min
Jul 10, 12:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie and 7 more10 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.