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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 112

March 31, 200552 counties in Alabama; 12 counties in Georgia; 20 counties in Mississippi

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 31, 2005, 1:15 AM CST for 52 counties in Alabama; 12 counties in Georgia; 20 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 31, 2005, 1:15 AM CST (07:15 UTC)
Expired: Mar 31, 2005, 8:00 AM CST
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 84 counties

Autauga County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell 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, Carroll County, GA, Clay County, GA, Early County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Polk County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Troup County, GA, Chickasaw County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Clay County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Greene County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Perry County, MS, Wayne County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:15 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 31, 1:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Kemper, Lauderdale	56 min
Mar 31, 1:21 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Macon	24 min
Mar 31, 1:35 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Sumter	41 min
Mar 31, 1:40 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	35 min
Mar 31, 1:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Jones	75 min
Mar 31, 2:11 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Lee	2 hr
Mar 31, 2:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	23 min
Mar 31, 2:26 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake, Neshoba	64 min
Mar 31, 2:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene, Sumter	46 min
Mar 31, 2:32 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	43 min
Mar 31, 2:37 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	23 min
Mar 31, 2:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	47 min
Mar 31, 3:01 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Elmore	119 min
Mar 31, 3:08 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Tuscaloosa	52 min
Mar 31, 3:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marengo	64 min
Mar 31, 3:18 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Lauderdale, Newton	3 hr
Mar 31, 3:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Jones	64 min
Mar 31, 4:05 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Smith	55 min
Mar 31, 4:41 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Clarke, Jasper, Jones	3 hr
Mar 31, 4:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Dallas, Perry	45 min
Mar 31, 4:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton	44 min
Mar 31, 6:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga, Chilton	45 min
Mar 31, 6:33 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta, Heard, Meriwether, Troup	27 min
Mar 31, 7:04 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Forrest	3 hr
Mar 31, 7:17 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Harris, Heard, Meriwether, Troup	3 hr
Mar 31, 7:26 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Choctaw	94 min
Mar 31, 7:42 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Jones	2 hr
Mar 31, 7:48 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Clarke, Washington, Wilcox	117 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 76 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: 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

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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, 9:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Blount, Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson and 10 more	6 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, 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 30, 11:44 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattahoochee, Chattooga, Cherokee and 36 more	91 min
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

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.