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Tornado Watch 854
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Nov 15, 2006, 4:00 AM CST for 26 counties in Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 15, 2006, 4:00 AM CST (10:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 15, 2006, 9:58 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 29 counties
Autauga County, AL, Baldwin County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Butler County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:00 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 90%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 50%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 4:40 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 50 min |
| Nov 15, 5:21 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 54 min |
| Nov 15, 5:22 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marengo | 53 min |
| Nov 15, 5:31 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 59 min |
| Nov 15, 5:54 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke | 36 min |
| Nov 15, 6:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe | 61 min |
| Nov 15, 7:12 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 63 min |
| Nov 15, 7:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Monroe | 29 min |
| Nov 15, 8:38 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 52 min |
| Nov 15, 9:34 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 26 min |
| Nov 15, 9:53 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 52 min |
| Nov 15, 9:57 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 3 hr |
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 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 1127 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 1:30 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Mobile, Washington | 2 hr |
| Nov 15, 5:55 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 7 more | 95 min |
| Nov 15, 9:01 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Colbert and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 15, 9:30 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Dallas, Greene, Hale and 8 more | 60 min |
| Nov 15, 9:54 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler and 33 more | 11 hr |
| Nov 15, 12:48 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston and 1 more | 57 min |
| Nov 15, 3:28 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Houston | 92 min |
| Nov 15, 12:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Lafayette, Leon and 4 more | 9 hr |
| Nov 14, 6:46 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bolivar, Washington | 119 min |
| Nov 14, 9:15 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 30 more | 2 hr |
| Nov 14, 10:07 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Wilkinson | 83 min |
| Nov 14, 11:25 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Covington, Forrest and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 14, 11:32 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw and 41 more | 58 min |
| Nov 15, 1:59 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw and 54 more | 8 hr |
| Nov 15, 2:16 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Issaquena, Jefferson | 119 min |
| Nov 15, 2:29 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Coahoma, DeSoto, Lafayette, Lee, Marshall and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Nov 15, 4:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 15, 7:14 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Alcorn, Amite, Attala, Benton, Calhoun and 54 more | 2 hr |
| Nov 15, 12:46 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Lafayette, Marshall, Prentiss, Tippah and 2 more | 119 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.