Tornadoes · United States · Georgia · 2006
F1 tornado, Norman Park, Georgia, January 13, 2006
This F1 tornado ran 9.6 miles across Colquitt County on January 13, 2006, touching down at 4:15 PM EST and reaching 100 yards wide. It killed nobody and injured 1, and did $2.0 million of property damage.
The rating scale
Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.
F040 to 72 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
F173 to 112 mphthis tornado
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
F2113 to 157 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.
F3158 to 206 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
F4207 to 260 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
F5261 to 318 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.
Unrated
The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.
The record
- Rating
- F1
- Date
- January 13, 2006
- Touchdown
- 4:15 PM EST (21:15 UTC)
- Path length
- 9.6 miles (15.4 km)
- Path width
- 100 yards (91 m)
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 1
- Property damage
- $2.0 million
- County
- Colquitt County
- Touchdown point
- 31.250, -83.680
- Lift-off point
- 31.370, -83.580
- Record number
- 30
What the Weather Service recorded
A tornado touched down along Perry Batts Road near Norman Park and traveled northeast. It destroyed two chicken houses at the International Poultry Breeders, killing 5,000 chickens and condemning another 15,000. The tornado sideswiped a restaurant, but snapped off several large pines around the building. One tree fell through the roof. A small shelter on the property was destroyed. Over open fields, several metal sheds were damaged or destroyed, and irrigation pivots were overturned. Five homes were destroyed, eight received heavy damage, and seven sustained moderate damage. Many power poles were toppled. A man suffered scratches to his left arm after part of the ceiling of his mobile home collapsed on him. The tornado lifted over Lanyer Sumner Road near the Colquitt-Cook county line. Damage survey provided by a SKYWARN storm spotter.
From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the tornado touched down, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the tornado touched down at Jan 13, 2:15 PM EST, 2 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 13, 2:15 PM EST, 2 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
215 PM EST FRI JAN 13 2006
.SYNOPSIS...AS OF THIS WRITING OUR ENTIRE CWA IS UNDER TWO SEPARATE
TORNADO WATCHES. SOME DAMAGE REPORTS HAVE RECENTLY ARRIVED AT THIS
OFFICE FROM SOME OF THESE STORMS. THE SQUALL LINE AT 2 PM EXTENDED
FROM OUR NORTHWEST GEORGIA ZONES SOUTHWEST TO THE EASTERN FLORIDA
PANHANDLE. THE COLD FRONT WAS HANGING FARTHER BACK FORM AROUND
BIRMINGHAM SOUTHWEST TO PENSACOLA.
&&
.SHORT TERM...(TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT)...SEVERE WEATHER
THREAT WILL END OVER OUR EASTERN ZONES THIS EVENING WITH THE PASSAGE
OF THE COLD FRONT. WILL TAPER POPS BASED ON RADAR COVERAGE AT ZONE
RELEASE. MOST LIKELY WE BE ABLE TO DROP POPS WESTERN ZONES AND TAPER
EASTERN ZONES FROM CHANCE TO LIKELY. SOME LOW CLOUDS MAY LINGER
SATURDAY MORNING FROM THE WRAP AROUND MOISTURE. OTHERWISE SKIES WILL
BECOME SUNNY BUT WITH THE STRONG COLD AIR ADVECTION...AFTERNOON
TEMPS WILL ONLY REACH THE 50S. WITH THE TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT...
WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO BE IN THE 15 TO 25 MPH RANGE FROM THE
NORTHWEST WHICH WOULD NECESSITATE A LAKE WIND ADVISORY. AS THE
GRADIENT RELAXES SATURDAY NIGHT...THE TEMPS WILL DROP RAPIDLY AFTER
SUNSET WITH SUB-FREEZING TEMPS AT MOST INLAND LOCATIONS BY DAYBREAK
SUNDAY.
.LONG TERM...(SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY)...WEATHER WILL BE QUIET
THROUGH MONDAY WITH JUST A GRADUAL WARM UP. THE NEXT LOW PRESSURE
SYSTEM APPROACHES ON TUESDAY WITH A STRONG COLD FRONT PUSHING
THROUGH THE LOCAL REGION TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY. COULD SEE
ANOTHER SEVERE WEATHER THREAT FOR THIS AREA AND HAVE GONE WITH HIGH
END CHANCE POPS ON TUES DUE TO REASONABLE AMOUNT OF CERTAINTY WITH
TIMING. COOLER AND MUCH DRIER AIRMASS MOVES IN FOR THURSDAY AND
FRIDAY AS SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE SETTLES OVER THE SOUTHEAST.
&&
.MARINE...ADVISORY CRITERIA WILL BE MET THIS EVENING AND CONTINUE
THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT. WINDS AND SEAS DIMINISH ON SUNDAY AS HIGH
PRESSURE BUILDS OVER THE WATERS. WINDS WILL BE RATHER LIGHT TO START
OFF THE WEEK BEFORE THE NEXT SYSTEM MOVES TOWARDS THE AREA ON
TUESDAY.
&&
.AVIATION...BKN TO OVC MVFR CIGS FOR MOST OF THE CWA. THE LINE OF
TSRA WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EWD ACROSS CWA THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. WX
SHOULD END IN MOST AREAS AROUND 00Z TONIGHT...AND CIGS WILL SCATTER
OUT AND BECOME VFR BY 12Z SATURDAY.
&&
.FIRE WEATHER...WILL ISSUE A RED FLAG WARNING FOR ALL OF OUR FLORIDA
ZONES TOMORROW AFTERNOON DUE TO LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RH AS WELL AS
20 FOOT WINDS ABOVE 15 MPH. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR
ALL FLORIDA ZONES ON SUNDAY DUE TO POSSIBLE LONG DURATIONS OF LOW
RH.
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
TALLAHASSEE 41 57 29 62/ 30 00 00 00
PANAMA CITY 42 57 35 62/ 10 00 00 00
DOTHAN 38 53 33 59/ 10 00 00 00
ALBANY 41 52 29 61/ 30 00 00 00
VALDOSTA 41 52 29 62/ 40 00 00 00
CROSS CITY 44 57 28 63/ 60 00 00 00
&&
.TAE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
AL...NONE.
GA...NONE.
FL...SCA ALL LEGS TONIGHT.
RED FLAG WARNING ALL ZONES SATURDAY DUE TO LONG DURATIONS OF
LOW RH AS WELL AS 20 FOOT WINDS ABOVE 15 MPH.
A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL ZONES ON SUNDAY DUE
TO POSSIBLE LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RH.
&&
PUBLIC/MARINE...BARRY
AVIATION/FIRE WX...MCT/HICKSHazardous weather outlook, Jan 13, 9:45 AM EST, 6 hours 30 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 945 AM EST FRI JAN 13 2006 ...SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL ACROSS THE AREA TODAY... ALZ065>069-FLZ007>019-026>029-034-GAZ120>131-142>148-155>161-GMZ750- 755-770-775-141000- BAKER GA-BAY FL-BEN HILL GA-BERRIEN GA-BROOKS GA-CALHOUN GA- CALHOUN FL-CLAY GA-COASTAL WALTON FL-COFFEE AL-COLQUITT GA-COOK GA- DALE AL-DECATUR GA-DIXIE FL-DOUGHERTY GA-EARLY GA-FRANKLIN FL- GADSDEN FL-GENEVA AL-GRADY GA-GULF FL-HENRY AL-HOLMES FL-HOUSTON AL- INLAND WALTON FL-IRWIN GA-JACKSON FL-JEFFERSON FL-LAFAYETTE FL- LANIER GA-LEE GA-LEON FL-LIBERTY FL-LOWNDES GA-MADISON FL-MILLER GA- MITCHELL GA-QUITMAN GA-RANDOLPH GA-SEMINOLE GA-TAYLOR FL-TERRELL GA- THOMAS GA-TIFT GA-TURNER GA-WAKULLA FL-WASHINGTON FL-WORTH GA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ABBEVILLE...ADEL...ALBANY...APALACHICOLA... ASHBURN...BAINBRIDGE...BLAKELY...BLOUNTSTOWN...BONIFAY...CAIRO... CALLAWAY...CAMILLA...CARRABELLE...CHIPLEY...COLQUITT...COTTONWOOD... CRAWFORDVILLE...CROSS CITY...CUTHBERT...DALEVILLE...DAWSON... DE FUNIAK SPRINGS...DONALSONVILLE...DOWNTOWN DOTHAN...ELBA... ENTERPRISE...FITZGERALD...FORT GAINES...FORT RUCKER...GENEVA... GEORGETOWN...HEADLAND...LAKELAND...LEESBURG...MADISON...MARIANNA... MAYO...MONTICELLO...MORGAN...MOULTRIE...NASHVILLE...NEWTON... OCILLA...OZARK...PANAMA CITY...PANAMA CITY BEACH...PELHAM...PERRY... PORT ST. JOE...PUTNEY...QUITMAN...SANTA ROSA BEACH...ST. MARKS... STEINHATCHEE...SYLVESTER...TALLAHASSEE...THOMASVILLE...TIFTON... VALDOSTA AND VERNON 945 AM EST FRI JAN 13 2006 THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA...THE FLORIDA BIG BEND AND EASTERN PANHANDLE...AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY AND THIS EVENING. THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS PUT MUCH OF THE REGION IN A SLIGHT TO MODERATE RISK AREA FOR ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE FROM AROUND NOON...THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA TODAY...BRINGING SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL BE STRONG TO SEVERE...WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. RESIDENTS ACROSS THE REGION SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER TODAY. THE FRONT AND ASSOCIATED CONVECTION WILL MOVE EAST TONIGHT. THEN HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD IN WITH GUSTY WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. WINDS WILL REMAIN GUSTY THROUGHOUT THE DAY ON SATURDAY AND COMBINED WITH COOLER TEMPERATURES...WILL LIKELY PRODUCE WIND CHILLS OF 25 DEGREES OR LOWER SATURDAY NIGHT. WINDS WILL DIMINISH BY SUNDAY MORNING AND TEMPERATURES WILL ALSO BEGIN TO WARM. ANOTHER SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO MAKE ITS WAY INTO THE AREA ON TUESDAY. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... WITH THE APPROACHING SEVERE WEATHER...SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED LATER TODAY. .RIP CURRENTS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY ALONG THE FLORIDA BIG BEND AND PANHANDLE BEACHES. A RIP CURRENT IS A STRONG NARROW CURRENT OF WATER FLOWING FROM THE BEACH THROUGH THE SURF ZONE. IT CAN RAPIDLY CARRY A SWIMMER INTO DEEPER WATER. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE VIA OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/TLH/ OR LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATIONS. 7-TREXLER
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jan 13, 2:25 PM EST, 1 hour 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
225 PM EST FRI JAN 13 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1255 PM TSTM WND DMG ENTERPRISE 31.31N 85.85W
01/13/2006 COFFEE AL EMERGENCY MNGR
TREES DOWN.
0125 PM TSTM WND DMG LEVEL PLAINS 31.30N 85.78W
01/13/2006 DALE AL LAW ENFORCEMENT
WIND DAMAGE TO CHICKEN HOUSE. POWER LINES DOWN ON STATE
HWY 84.
0155 PM TSTM WND DMG TUMBLETON 31.41N 85.26W
01/13/2006 HENRY AL LAW ENFORCEMENT
DAMAGE TO A BARN. TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN.
0210 PM TSTM WND DMG 8 S FORT GAINES 31.49N 85.05W
01/13/2006 EARLY GA LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREE DAMAGED A CAR ON THE COUNTY LINE.
0210 PM TSTM WND DMG 9 NW BLAKELY 31.47N 85.04W
01/13/2006 EARLY GA LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREE DAMAGED A CAR ON THE COUNTY LINE.
&&
WOOLSpecial weather statement, Jan 13, 2:46 PM EST, 1 hour 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 246 PM EST FRI JAN 13 2006 GAZ143-156-132015- DECATUR-MILLER- 246 PM EST FRI JAN 13 2006 ...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS IN EFFECT FOR DECATUR AND MILLER COUNTIES... AT 245 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF COLQUITT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. SMALL HAIL...AND WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS. 12-WATSON
Special weather statement, Jan 13, 3:12 PM EST, 1 hour 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 312 PM EST FRI JAN 13 2006 FLZ015-026-132115- FRANKLIN-LIBERTY- 312 PM EST FRI JAN 13 2006 ...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS IN EFFECT FOR FRANKLIN AND LIBERTY COUNTIES... AT 306 PM EST(206 PM CST)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM...24 MILES NORTHWEST OF CARRABELLE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH...SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS...AND IS MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. 7-TREXLER
Local storm report, Jan 13, 3:19 PM EST, 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
319 PM EST FRI JAN 13 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1255 PM TSTM WND DMG ENTERPRISE 31.31N 85.85W
01/13/2006 COFFEE AL EMERGENCY MNGR
TREES DOWN.
0125 PM TSTM WND DMG LEVEL PLAINS 31.30N 85.78W
01/13/2006 DALE AL LAW ENFORCEMENT
WIND DAMAGE TO CHICKEN HOUSE. POWER LINES DOWN ON STATE
HWY 84.
0133 PM LIGHTNING GLENDALE 30.86N 86.11W
01/13/2006 WALTON FL LAW ENFORCEMENT
*** 1 FATAL *** LIGHTNING STRUCK AND KILLED A MAN.
0155 PM TSTM WND DMG TUMBLETON 31.41N 85.26W
01/13/2006 HENRY AL LAW ENFORCEMENT
TWO HOMES DAMAGED AND SEVERAL BUILDINGS DAMAGED. DAMAGE
TO A BARN ON CO RTE 45. TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN.
0155 PM TORNADO TUMBLETON 31.41N 85.26W
01/13/2006 HENRY AL EMERGENCY MNGR
EYEWITNESS REPORT OF TORNADO FROM GENERAL PUBLIC.
0210 PM TSTM WND DMG 8 S FORT GAINES 31.49N 85.05W
01/13/2006 EARLY GA LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREE DAMAGED A CAR ON THE COUNTY LINE.
0210 PM TSTM WND DMG 9 NW BLAKELY 31.47N 85.04W
01/13/2006 EARLY GA LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREE DAMAGED A CAR ON THE COUNTY LINE.
&&
WOOLSpecial weather statement, Jan 13, 3:39 PM EST, 36 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 339 PM EST FRI JAN 13 2006 FLZ017-027-132145- LEON-WAKULLA- 339 PM EST FRI JAN 13 2006 ...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS IN EFFECT FOR LEON AND WAKULLA COUNTIES... AT 335 PM EST(235 PM CST)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...JUST ENTERING WESTERN WAKULLA AND LEON COUNTIES. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT THE CRAWFORDVILLE AND TALLAHASSEE AREAS. THE AREA WILL MOVE EAST AT 40 MPH. THE STORMS WILL AFFECT THE AREA OVER THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS. THE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH AND GUSTS TO 40 MPH...SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS. SOME AREAS WILL SEE NEARLY CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. 7-TREXLER
Special weather statement, Jan 13, 3:59 PM EST, 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 359 PM EST FRI JAN 13 2006 GAZ120>126-142>144-155-140200- BAKER-CALHOUN-CLAY-DOUGHERTY-EARLY-LEE-MILLER-QUITMAN-RANDOLPH- SEMINOLE-TERRELL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALBANY...BLAKELY...COLQUITT...CUTHBERT... DAWSON...DONALSONVILLE...FORT GAINES...GEORGETOWN...LEESBURG... MORGAN...NEWTON 359 PM EST FRI JAN 13 2006 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 18 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN GEORGIA. BAKER...CALHOUN...CLAY...DOUGHERTY...EARLY...LEE...MILLER... QUITMAN...RANDOLPH...SEMINOLE AND TERRELL FLZ015>019-026>029-034-GAZ127>131-145>148-156>161-140200- BEN HILL-BERRIEN-BROOKS-COLQUITT-COOK-DECATUR-DIXIE-FRANKLIN-GADSDEN- GRADY-IRWIN-JEFFERSON-LAFAYETTE-LANIER-LEON-LIBERTY-LOWNDES-MADISON- MITCHELL-TAYLOR-THOMAS-TIFT-TURNER-WAKULLA-WORTH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ADEL...APALACHICOLA...ASHBURN... BAINBRIDGE...BRISTOL...CAIRO...CAMILLA...CRAWFORDVILLE... CROSS CITY...FITZGERALD...LAKELAND...MADISON...MAYO...MONTICELLO... MOULTRIE...NASHVILLE...OCILLA...PERRY...QUINCY...QUITMAN... SYLVESTER...TALLAHASSEE...THOMASVILLE...TIFTON...VALDOSTA 359 PM EST FRI JAN 13 2006 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 18 CONTINUES UNTIL 9 PM EST FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES. IN GEORGIA...BEN HILL...BERRIEN...BROOKS...COLQUITT...COOK... DECATUR...GRADY...IRWIN...LANIER...LOWNDES...MITCHELL... THOMAS...TIFT...TURNER...WORTH. IN FLORIDA...DIXIE...FRANKLIN...GADSDEN...JEFFERSON...LAFAYETTE... LEON...LIBERTY...MADISON...TAYLOR AND WAKULLA. WOOL
The air that afternoon
The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), 12:00Z
9.3 hours before the tornado, 120 km from the path. January 13, 2006.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -179 J/kg
- Surface CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 782 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
- 0-3 km lapse rate
- 3.3 K/km
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), 00:00Z
2.7 hours after it, 120 km from the path. January 14, 2006.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 451 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Surface CAPE
- 962 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 759 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
- 0-3 km lapse rate
- 5.8 K/km
The surface observations
Tifton (TMA), 19 km from the path, in the two hours either side.
| Time (UTC) | Temp (°F) | Dew point (°F) | Wind | Gust (kt) | Pressure (mb) | Weather |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC |
From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.
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The other tornadoes of January 13, 2006
14 more were confirmed in the United States that day.
| Date | Time | Rating | Where | Path (mi) | Width (yd) | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 13 | 4:20 AM CST | F1 | Concordia Parish, LA | 2.0 | 100 | 1 | $450,000 | |
| January 13 | 10:01 AM CST | F1 | Conecuh, AL | 1.0 | 880 | 1 | $500,000 | |
| January 13 | 10:41 AM CST | F0 | Okaloosa, FL | 4.0 | 50 | 13 | $2.0 million | |
| January 13 | 10:56 AM CST | F1 | Santa Rosa, FL | 0.8 | 75 | $500,000 | ||
| January 13 | 12:00 PM CST | F0 | Dale, AL | 1.0 | 50 | $500,000 | ||
| January 13 | 12:20 PM CST | F0 | Barbour, AL | 8.5 | 100 | 1 | $250,000 | |
| January 13 | 12:45 PM CST | F0 | Henry, AL | 0.2 | 50 | $100,000 | ||
| January 13 | 5:18 PM EST | F0 | Lexington, SC | 0.2 | 40 | |||
| January 13 | 8:00 PM EST | F0 | Bamberg, SC | 0.1 | 40 | |||
| January 13 | 8:06 PM EST | F1 | Gaston, NC | 0.5 | 100 | $350,000 | ||
| January 13 | 8:25 PM EST | F0 | Orangeburg, SC | 0.3 | 50 | |||
| January 13 | 8:30 PM EST | F0 | Camden, GA | 0.1 | 0 | $200,000 | ||
| January 13 | 9:02 PM EST | F0 | Orangeburg, SC | 0.3 | 50 | $10,000 | ||
| January 13 | 9:35 PM EST | F1 | Clarendon, SC | 6.0 | 440 | 18 | $500,000 |
What this means
Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.
Sources
NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.