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Tornado Watch 755

August 29, 20054 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Aug 29, 2005, 10:25 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 29, 2005, 10:25 AM CDT (15:25 UTC)
Expired: Aug 29, 2005, 6:35 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 124 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, Choctaw 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, Geneva County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, Shelby County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Washington 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, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Butts County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Grady County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard 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, Pike 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, Troup County, GA, Upson County, GA, Webster County, GA, Attala County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Perry County, MS, Scott County, MS, Smith County, MS, Stone County, MS, Wayne County, MS, Winston County, MS

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:26 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 29, 10:49 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Hancock, Harrison, Pearl River, Walthall	56 min
Aug 29, 11:00 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia	60 min
Aug 29, 11:03 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	27 min
Aug 29, 11:08 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Lawrence, Lincoln	6 hr
Aug 29, 11:23 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Escambia, Monroe	6 hr
Aug 29, 11:37 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Newton, Scott	38 min
Aug 29, 11:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	65 min
Aug 29, 11:45 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Wayne	60 min
Aug 29, 11:46 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Barbour	29 min
Aug 29, 11:55 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Pearl River, Walthall	65 min
Aug 29, 12:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	36 min
Aug 29, 12:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Newton, Scott	36 min
Aug 29, 12:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River	4 hr
Aug 29, 12:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Barbour	33 min
Aug 29, 12:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar, Marion	63 min
Aug 29, 12:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	32 min
Aug 29, 12:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Clarke, Copiah, Hinds, Jasper, Kemper, Lauderdale and 8 more	6 hr
Aug 29, 12:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Kemper, Neshoba	46 min
Aug 29, 12:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leake	56 min
Aug 29, 12:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Bullock	24 min
Aug 29, 12:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia	39 min
Aug 29, 12:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis, Jones	113 min
Aug 29, 1:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Macon	35 min
Aug 29, 1:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Kemper, Neshoba	50 min
Aug 29, 1:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Leake, Madison	34 min
Aug 29, 1:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Conecuh, Monroe	63 min
Aug 29, 1:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Attala	40 min
Aug 29, 1:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Monroe, Wilcox	63 min
Aug 29, 1:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Conecuh, Escambia	41 min
Aug 29, 2:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lee	27 min
Aug 29, 2:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Attala, Holmes, Noxubee, Winston, Yazoo	6 hr
Aug 29, 2:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Chambers	33 min
Aug 29, 2:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia and 4 more	6 hr
Aug 29, 2:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Coosa	16 min
Aug 29, 2:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pike	42 min
Aug 29, 2:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Talladega	36 min
Aug 29, 2:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar, Marion	3 hr
Aug 29, 2:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	18 min
Aug 29, 2:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Bullock	31 min
Aug 29, 3:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lee	29 min
Aug 29, 3:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Barbour	24 min
Aug 29, 3:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Clay	36 min
Aug 29, 3:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	26 min
Aug 29, 3:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Elmore, Macon, Montgomery	30 min
Aug 29, 3:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Chambers	27 min
Aug 29, 3:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Harris	18 min
Aug 29, 3:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Bullock	31 min
Aug 29, 3:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Macon	57 min
Aug 29, 3:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Carroll, Choctaw, Clay, Grenada, Leflore, Lowndes and 3 more	6 hr
Aug 29, 3:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Bullock	63 min
Aug 29, 4:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Barbour	57 min
Aug 29, 4:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LIX	Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River	4 hr
Aug 29, 4:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Macon	27 min
Aug 29, 5:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Russell	42 min
Aug 29, 5:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pike	36 min
Aug 29, 5:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Taylor	18 min
Aug 29, 5:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Crawford, Upson	24 min
Aug 29, 5:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lee	28 min
Aug 29, 5:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Montgomery	25 min
Aug 29, 5:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Montgomery	16 min
Aug 29, 6:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Lamar, Upson	37 min
Aug 29, 6:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Crawford, Peach	36 min
Aug 29, 6:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pike	34 min
Aug 29, 6:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Lauderdale, Newton	100 min
Aug 29, 6:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Bibb, Monroe	57 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

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 606 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 692 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 217 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 214 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 28, 10:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia and 3 more	119 min
Aug 29, 1:26 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh and 8 more	34 min
Aug 29, 2:00 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 5 more	8 hr
Aug 29, 6:33 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia and 4 more	117 min
Aug 29, 7:41 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barbour, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston and 1 more	94 min
Aug 29, 9:36 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler and 37 more	84 min
Aug 29, 1:04 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler and 38 more	86 min
Aug 29, 3:23 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb and 15 more	37 min
Aug 29, 3:25 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, Colbert, Cullman and 17 more	3 hr
Aug 29, 5:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bibb, Chilton, Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin and 11 more	3 hr
Aug 29, 6:12 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler and 49 more	63 min
Aug 29, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler and 40 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.