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Tornado Watch 22

January 14, 20065 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 14, 2006, 2:46 AM EST for 5 states. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 14, 2006, 2:46 AM EST (07:46 UTC)
Expired: Jan 14, 2006, 7:27 AM EST
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 53 counties

Kent County, DE, New Castle County, DE, Sussex County, DE, Anne Arundel County, MD, Baltimore County, MD, Calvert County, MD, Caroline County, MD, Cecil County, MD, City of Baltimore, MD, Dorchester County, MD, Harford County, MD, Kent County, MD, Queen Anne's County, MD, Saint Mary's County, MD, Somerset County, MD, Talbot County, MD, Wicomico County, MD, Worcester County, MD, Atlantic County, NJ, Bergen County, NJ, Burlington County, NJ, Camden County, NJ, Cape May County, NJ, Cumberland County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Gloucester County, NJ, Hudson County, NJ, Hunterdon County, NJ, Mercer County, NJ, Middlesex County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Morris County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Salem County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Bronx County, NY, Kings County, NY, New York County, NY, Queens County, NY, Richmond County, NY, Berks County, PA, Bucks County, PA, Chester County, PA, Delaware County, PA, Lehigh County, PA, Monroe County, PA, Montgomery County, PA, Northampton County, PA, Philadelphia County, PA

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:45 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 14, 4:01 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Wicomico	29 min
Jan 14, 4:06 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Sussex	54 min
Jan 14, 4:14 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Somerset, Worcester	61 min
Jan 14, 4:58 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Sussex	47 min
Jan 14, 5:19 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cape May	41 min
Jan 14, 5:28 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Lehigh, Northampton	47 min
Jan 14, 5:53 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Warren	52 min
Jan 14, 6:18 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Sussex	42 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

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 9 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 808 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 230 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 250 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 140745
SEL2  
SPC WW 140745
DEZ000-MDZ000-NJZ000-NYZ000-PAZ000-CWZ000-141400-

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 22
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
245 AM EST SAT JAN 14 2006

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

       DELAWARE
       EASTERN MARYLAND
       NEW JERSEY
       EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK
       EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA
       COASTAL WATERS

EFFECTIVE THIS SATURDAY MORNING FROM 245 AM UNTIL 900 AM EST.

TORNADOES...HAIL TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.

THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 40 STATUTE MILES
EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF NEWARK NEW
JERSEY TO 55 MILES SOUTH OF PATUXENT RIVER MARYLAND.  FOR A
COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE
UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU2).

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.

OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 21...

DISCUSSION...LINEAR CONVECTIVE SYSTEM DEVELOPING NNE FROM THE NRN
NECK OF VA EXPECTED TO CONTINUE DEVELOPING/MOVING NNE ACROSS THE
DELMARVA PENINSULA AND INTO NJ/THE DELAWARE VLY LATER THIS MORNING
AS 90 KT MID LEVEL SPEED MAX NOW OVER NC SWEEPS NWD.  SHEAR PROFILES
WILL BE SUPPORTIVE OF SMALL SCALE LEWPS/BOWS WITH LOCALIZED HIGH
WIND AND POSSIBLY ISOLATED TORNADOES.

AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 1 INCH. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 350.
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 21045.


...CORFIDI

410,0734 372,0754 372,0770 410,0751

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 14, 2:19 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Kent, New Castle, Sussex	86 min
Jan 14, 6:30 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth and 6 more	90 min
Jan 13, 9:00 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brunswick, Greensville, Isle of Wight, Mecklenburg, Southampton, Sussex and 6 more	2 hr
Jan 13, 11:45 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Accomack, Amelia, Brunswick, Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie and 39 more	6 hr
Jan 14, 3:31 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Northampton, York, City of Chesapeake, City of Hampton, City of Norfolk, City of Poquoson and 1 more	89 min

Nearby

Tornado Watches in New Jersey, 2006 Tornado Watches in Maryland, 2006 Tornado Watches in Pennsylvania, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.