Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 111
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 30, 2005, 9:50 PM CST for 16 counties in Alabama; Itawamba County, Monroe County, Mississippi; 16 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 2005, 9:50 PM CST (03:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2005, 4:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties
Blount County, AL, Colbert County, AL, Cullman County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marion County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL, Itawamba County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Bedford County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Giles County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Marion County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, Moore County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:53 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
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 9:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 47 min |
| Mar 30, 9:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lauderdale | 61 min |
| Mar 30, 10:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 54 min |
| Mar 30, 10:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Franklin | 48 min |
| Mar 30, 10:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman | 43 min |
| Mar 30, 10:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Giles, Lawrence | 48 min |
| Mar 30, 10:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Marshall | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 11:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marshall, Rutherford | 34 min |
| Mar 30, 11:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Walker | 48 min |
| Mar 31, 12:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Coffee, Warren | 24 min |
| Mar 31, 12:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Warren, White | 30 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 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -297 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 7:56 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Franklin, Lamar, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone and 2 more | 94 min |
| Mar 30, 8:55 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Butler, Chilton, Conecuh and 11 more | 95 min |
| Mar 30, 9:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Butler, Calhoun, Chilton, Clarke and 22 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 30, 10:11 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw, Greene, Pickens, Sumter | 94 min |
| Mar 31, 12:53 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Chilton and 21 more | 97 min |
| Mar 31, 1:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler and 46 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 31, 2:08 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence and 4 more | 97 min |
| Mar 31, 5:34 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun, Chambers and 34 more | 116 min |
| Mar 31, 6:53 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun and 35 more | 67 min |
| Mar 31, 7:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington and 12 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 31, 10:32 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington and 7 more | 88 min |
| Mar 31, 2:15 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Geneva, Houston | 2 hr |
| Mar 31, 11:40 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Amite, Hancock, Harrison, Pearl River, Pike, Stone and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 31, 12:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Amite, George, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:27 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Amite, George, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River and 4 more | 93 min |
| Mar 31, 5:28 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Amite, Forrest, Franklin, George, Greene and 13 more | 62 min |
| Mar 31, 5:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Covington, Forrest, Franklin, George and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 30, 11:44 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bradley, Hamilton, McMinn, Meigs, Polk, Rhea | 91 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.