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Tornado Watch 17

January 13, 200633 counties in Alabama; 10 counties in Florida; 7 counties in Mississippi

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 13, 2006, 7:11 AM CST for 33 counties in Alabama; 10 counties in Florida; 7 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jan 13, 2006, 7:11 AM CST (13:11 UTC)
Expired
Jan 13, 2006, 2:00 PM CST
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 50 counties

Autauga County, AL, Baldwin County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bullock 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, 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, Pike County, AL, Russell County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Escambia County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS, Wayne County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 13, 7:38 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIXHancock, Harrison, Pearl River37 min
Jan 13, 7:57 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBWashington48 min
Jan 13, 8:19 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBWilcox26 min
Jan 13, 8:56 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin34 min
Jan 13, 9:14 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBButler, Conecuh, Covington31 min
Jan 13, 9:16 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBButler, Conecuh, Covington29 min
Jan 13, 9:28 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBEscambia24 min
Jan 13, 9:48 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin27 min
Jan 13, 9:49 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBConecuh26 min
Jan 13, 10:01 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBSanta Rosa29 min
Jan 13, 10:14 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBButler, Crenshaw16 min
Jan 13, 10:17 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin43 min
Jan 13, 10:19 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBButler, Conecuh, Crenshaw41 min
Jan 13, 10:27 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBOkaloosa, Santa Rosa33 min
Jan 13, 10:45 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBOkaloosa22 min
Jan 13, 10:52 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBEscambia, Santa Rosa23 min
Jan 13, 10:59 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBCovington31 min
Jan 13, 11:12 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBOkaloosa, Santa Rosa48 min
Jan 13, 11:13 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBCovington23 min
Jan 13, 11:25 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAECoffee, Geneva50 min
Jan 13, 12:03 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEDale27 min
Jan 13, 12:07 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXBarbour23 min
Jan 13, 12:30 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXBarbour15 min
Jan 13, 12:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEHenry35 min
Jan 13, 1:29 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEBay, Gulf31 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 183 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 2006-01-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 2006-01-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 433 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2292 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
433 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
525 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
Jan 13, 5:20 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Greene and 8 more85 min
Jan 13, 12:55 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarbour, Bullock, Coffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva and 6 more95 min
Jan 13, 10:15 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaker, Bay, Calhoun, Columbia, Gadsden, Hamilton and 10 more90 min
Jan 13, 12:03 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCColumbia, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Hamilton, Jefferson and 7 more8 hr
Jan 13, 3:36 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Duval, Nassau and 3 more84 min
Jan 13, 3:45 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAlachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Duval, Flagler and 6 more7 hr
Jan 13, 4:48 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrevard, Broward, Highlands, Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee and 7 more117 min
Jan 13, 3:08 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBryan, Bulloch, Chatham, Effingham, Evans, Jenkins and 5 more97 min
Jan 13, 5:17 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBurke, Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond7 hr
Jan 12, 11:48 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBolivar, Issaquena, Sharkey, Washington6 hr
Jan 13, 1:47 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlcorn, Amite, Attala, Benton, Calhoun, Carroll and 56 more88 min
Jan 13, 2:14 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 43 more8 hr
Jan 13, 4:00 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Claiborne, Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren60 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.