Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches in 2006
Tornado Watch 17
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.
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
25 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 7:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison, Pearl River | 37 min |
| Jan 13, 7:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 48 min |
| Jan 13, 8:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 26 min |
| Jan 13, 8:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 34 min |
| Jan 13, 9:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington | 31 min |
| Jan 13, 9:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington | 29 min |
| Jan 13, 9:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 24 min |
| Jan 13, 9:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 27 min |
| Jan 13, 9:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 26 min |
| Jan 13, 10:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 29 min |
| Jan 13, 10:14 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 16 min |
| Jan 13, 10:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 43 min |
| Jan 13, 10:19 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Crenshaw | 41 min |
| Jan 13, 10:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 33 min |
| Jan 13, 10:45 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 22 min |
| Jan 13, 10:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 23 min |
| Jan 13, 10:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 31 min |
| Jan 13, 11:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 48 min |
| Jan 13, 11:13 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 23 min |
| Jan 13, 11:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Geneva | 50 min |
| Jan 13, 12:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale | 27 min |
| Jan 13, 12:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 23 min |
| Jan 13, 12:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 15 min |
| Jan 13, 12:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Henry | 35 min |
| Jan 13, 1:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Gulf | 31 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.
- 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
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 5:20 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Greene and 8 more | 85 min |
| Jan 13, 12:55 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva and 6 more | 95 min |
| Jan 13, 10:15 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Bay, Calhoun, Columbia, Gadsden, Hamilton and 10 more | 90 min |
| Jan 13, 12:03 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Hamilton, Jefferson and 7 more | 8 hr |
| Jan 13, 3:36 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Duval, Nassau and 3 more | 84 min |
| Jan 13, 3:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Duval, Flagler and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 13, 4:48 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brevard, Broward, Highlands, Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee and 7 more | 117 min |
| Jan 13, 3:08 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Chatham, Effingham, Evans, Jenkins and 5 more | 97 min |
| Jan 13, 5:17 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burke, Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond | 7 hr |
| Jan 12, 11:48 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bolivar, Issaquena, Sharkey, Washington | 6 hr |
| Jan 13, 1:47 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alcorn, Amite, Attala, Benton, Calhoun, Carroll and 56 more | 88 min |
| Jan 13, 2:14 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 43 more | 8 hr |
| Jan 13, 4:00 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Claiborne, Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren | 60 min |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Alabama, 2006Tornado Watches in Florida, 2006Tornado Watches in Mississippi, 2006Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.