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Tornado Watch 173

April 8, 200610 counties in Alabama; 19 counties in Florida; 35 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 8, 2006, 9:00 AM CDT for 10 counties in Alabama; 19 counties in Florida; 35 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 8, 2006, 9:00 AM CDT (14:00 UTC)
Expired
Apr 8, 2006, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 64 counties

Barbour County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Pike County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Escambia County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette 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, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Clay County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Grady County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Worth County, GA

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 8, 9:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBEscambia, Santa Rosa35 min
Apr 8, 9:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBEscambia44 min
Apr 8, 9:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXPike41 min
Apr 8, 10:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBCrenshaw25 min
Apr 8, 10:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXPike40 min
Apr 8, 11:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEWalton39 min
Apr 8, 11:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBOkaloosa22 min
Apr 8, 11:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCMarion, Schley, Sumter, Webster34 min
Apr 8, 11:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEQuitman31 min
Apr 8, 11:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEGeneva54 min
Apr 8, 11:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDooly, Macon, Sumter31 min
Apr 8, 12:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPulaski, Wilcox26 min
Apr 8, 12:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBleckley, Dodge36 min
Apr 8, 12:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAECoffee33 min
Apr 8, 1:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCLaurens, Telfair29 min
Apr 8, 1:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEBaker, Mitchell30 min
Apr 8, 1:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEHenry36 min
Apr 8, 2:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAETift, Worth23 min
Apr 8, 2:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAECoffee, Dale, Houston36 min
Apr 8, 2:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEColquitt, Mitchell50 min
Apr 8, 2:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEBerrien, Irwin, Tift30 min
Apr 8, 3:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEGrady25 min
Apr 8, 3:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEGeneva, Houston34 min
Apr 8, 3:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAEColquitt, Cook46 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

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2006-04-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1769 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2006-04-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 168 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
1769 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
496 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
168 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.6
Supercell composite
7.9

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 7, 7:28 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 37 more9 hr
Apr 7, 10:16 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton and 34 more89 min
Apr 7, 11:05 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLauderdale115 min
Apr 8, 2:30 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun and 33 more90 min
Apr 8, 6:42 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCRussell93 min
Apr 8, 8:37 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarbour, Coffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva, Henry and 2 more113 min
Apr 8, 2:00 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGeneva, Henry, Houston2 hr
Apr 8, 11:00 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaker, Columbia, Duval, Nassau, Union2 hr
Apr 8, 12:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 7 more8 hr
Apr 8, 3:22 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 7 more113 min
Apr 8, 3:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 9 more4 hr
Apr 8, 5:59 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia and 16 more91 min
Apr 7, 8:20 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBanks, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee and 25 more10 hr
Apr 8, 2:10 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Barrow, Bibb, Butts, Chattahoochee, Clarke and 51 more6 hr
Apr 8, 2:45 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBanks, Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth, Franklin, Habersham and 8 more60 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.