Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches in 2007
Tornado Watch 10
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jan 7, 2007, 12:26 PM CST for 44 counties in Alabama; 15 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 7, 2007, 12:26 PM CST (18:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 7, 2007, 6:55 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 59 counties
Autauga County, AL, Baldwin County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Butler County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Cullman County, AL, Dallas County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Perry County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Clarke County, MS, Forrest County, MS, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jones County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:29 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
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 1:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 29 min |
| Jan 7, 1:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 34 min |
| Jan 7, 3:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 17 min |
| Jan 7, 3:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Elmore | 25 min |
| Jan 7, 3:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 23 min |
| Jan 7, 3:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Elmore | 19 min |
| Jan 7, 3:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Clay | 31 min |
| Jan 7, 3:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 23 min |
| Jan 7, 3:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe, Wilcox | 35 min |
| Jan 7, 4:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 15 min |
| Jan 7, 4:53 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Autauga, Bullock, Elmore, Fayette, Jefferson, Lamar and 8 more | 233 days |
| Jan 7, 5:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 28 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 446 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 317 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 11:31 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler and 39 more | 2 hr |
| Jan 7, 2:51 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler and 36 more | 84 min |
| Jan 7, 3:12 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Coffee, Covington, Dale and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 7, 5:34 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barrow, Clarke, DeKalb, Elbert, Forsyth, Fulton and 13 more | 86 min |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Alabama, 2007Tornado Watches in Mississippi, 2007Every tornado watch in 2007
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.