Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 302
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 20, 2005, 3:10 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 20, 2005, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 20, 2005, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 110 counties
Autauga County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Clay 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, 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, Russell County, AL, Shelby County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Madison County, FL, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Grady County, GA, Harris County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Schley County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Troup County, GA, Turner County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Worth County, GA, Calhoun County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Clay County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Scott County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 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
44 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee, Muscogee | 39 min |
| May 20, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 46 min |
| May 20, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 78 min |
| May 20, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Stewart | 22 min |
| May 20, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 32 min |
| May 20, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Tuscaloosa | 43 min |
| May 20, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Marion, Schley | 26 min |
| May 20, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 52 min |
| May 20, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 37 min |
| May 20, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clay, Lowndes | 37 min |
| May 20, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Pickens | 33 min |
| May 20, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 33 min |
| May 20, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale | 24 min |
| May 20, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Neshoba, Winston | 40 min |
| May 20, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale | 47 min |
| May 20, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 19 min |
| May 20, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Leake, Madison | 63 min |
| May 20, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 30 min |
| May 20, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Henry | 39 min |
| May 20, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Geneva | 38 min |
| May 20, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Lowndes, Montgomery | 35 min |
| May 20, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 45 min |
| May 20, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale, Neshoba, Newton | 60 min |
| May 20, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 47 min |
| May 20, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Clay, Early | 41 min |
| May 20, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale, Houston | 40 min |
| May 20, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lee | 50 min |
| May 20, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Lauderdale | 61 min |
| May 20, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Geneva | 45 min |
| May 20, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Tift | 40 min |
| May 20, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock | 24 min |
| May 20, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo, Sumter | 46 min |
| May 20, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dougherty | 45 min |
| May 20, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Early, Miller | 33 min |
| May 20, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 48 min |
| May 20, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Houston | 25 min |
| May 20, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien | 40 min |
| May 20, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Early, Miller | 51 min |
| May 20, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Henry | 37 min |
| May 20, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Berrien, Cook | 46 min |
| May 20, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 44 min |
| May 20, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 25 min |
| May 20, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee | 34 min |
| May 20, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Seminole | 40 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 1086 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1017 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 4:18 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jackson | 57 min |
| May 20, 7:42 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | DeKalb, Jackson, Limestone, Madison | 93 min |
| May 20, 8:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne and 24 more | 7 hr |
| May 20, 12:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler and 52 more | 65 min |
| May 20, 6:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler and 40 more | 91 min |
| May 20, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Hart | 7 hr |
| May 20, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Catoosa, Cherokee, Dade, Dawson and 20 more | 8 hr |
| May 20, 4:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Bleckley, Burke, Candler, Columbia, Emanuel and 18 more | 53 min |
| May 20, 12:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Chatham, Effingham and 11 more | 29 min |
| May 20, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appling, Bacon, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler and 15 more | 7 hr |
| May 20, 1:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Bacon, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler and 14 more | 62 min |
| May 20, 3:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Bacon, Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham and 10 more | 95 min |
| May 20, 4:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Grenada, Hinds, Holmes and 14 more | 114 min |
| May 20, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Attala, Carroll, Claiborne, Copiah, Covington and 19 more | 8 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.