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Tornado Watch 176
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 8, 2006, 3:45 PM CDT for 15 counties in Florida; 5 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 8, 2006, 3:45 PM CDT (20:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2006, 8:03 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Brooks County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Grady County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Thomas County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 4:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Brooks, Thomas | 26 min |
| Apr 8, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Walton, Washington | 34 min |
| Apr 8, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Lowndes | 30 min |
| Apr 8, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Madison | 24 min |
| Apr 8, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Madison | 20 min |
| Apr 8, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Madison | 20 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 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
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 8:37 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Escambia, Gadsden, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson and 6 more | 113 min |
| Apr 8, 9:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 8, 11:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Columbia, Duval, Nassau, Union | 2 hr |
| Apr 8, 12:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 7 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 8, 2:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 8, 3:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 7 more | 113 min |
| Apr 8, 5:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia and 16 more | 91 min |
| Apr 7, 8:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banks, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee and 25 more | 10 hr |
| Apr 7, 10:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dade | 89 min |
| Apr 8, 2:10 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bibb, Butts, Chattahoochee, Clarke and 51 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 2:45 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banks, Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth, Franklin, Habersham and 8 more | 60 min |
| Apr 8, 6:42 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Chattahoochee, Crawford, Glascock and 13 more | 93 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.