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Tornado Watch 1

January 1, 200616 counties in Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida; 17 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 1, 2006, 5:14 PM CST for 16 counties in Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida; 17 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 1, 2006, 5:14 PM CST (23:14 UTC)
Expired: Jan 2, 2006, 12:00 AM CST
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 36 counties

Autauga County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Pike County, AL, Russell County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Chattahoochee County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Harris County, GA, Houston County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Schley County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wilcox County, GA

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 1, 5:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Santa Rosa	56 min
Jan 1, 6:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Okaloosa	29 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 185 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 603 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 215 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 265 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS20 KWNS 012313
SEL1  
SPC WW 012313
ALZ000-FLZ000-GAZ000-CWZ000-020600-

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 1
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
615 PM EST SUN JAN 1 2006

THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF 

       SOUTHEAST ALABAMA
       FLORIDA PANHANDLE
       SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
       COASTAL WATERS

EFFECTIVE THIS SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY MORNING FROM 615 PM UNTIL
100 AM EST.

TORNADOES...HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.

THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 75 STATUTE MILES
EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EVERGREEN ALABAMA
TO 50 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF MACON GEORGIA.  FOR A COMPLETE
DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU1).

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

DISCUSSION...CLUSTER OF STRONG/SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST
AL WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD EASTWARD ALONG AND SOUTH OF SURFACE WARM
FRONT INTO SOUTHWEST GA THIS EVENING.  SHEAR PROFILES ARE EXPECTED
TO SLOWLY INCREASE...PROMOTING A CONTINUED THREAT OF SUPERCELLS WITH
LARGE HAIL AND ISOLATED TORNADOES.

AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 450.
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 25030.


...HART

322,0872 330,0833 305,0830 301,0865

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 1, 1:36 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington and 8 more	84 min

Nearby

Tornado Watches in Georgia, 2006 Tornado Watches in Alabama, 2006 Tornado Watches in Florida, 2006 Every tornado watch in 2006

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.