Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 42
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 5, 2005, 1:25 PM EST for 38 counties in Georgia; 6 counties in North Carolina; 37 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 2005, 1:25 PM EST (18:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 2005, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 81 counties
Bleckley County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Candler County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Screven County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Columbus County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Pender County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Beaufort County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Horry County, SC, Jasper County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:27 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
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 2:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 30 min |
| Mar 5, 2:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richland | 25 min |
| Mar 5, 2:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 81 min |
| Mar 5, 2:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Clarendon, Orangeburg, Sumter | 77 min |
| Mar 5, 3:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 28 min |
| Mar 5, 3:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester | 119 min |
| Mar 5, 3:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 96 min |
| Mar 5, 3:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Williamsburg | 83 min |
| Mar 5, 3:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | New Hanover, Pender | 34 min |
| Mar 5, 5:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Horry | 89 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 1892 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 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 5, 11:48 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burke, Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond | 2 hr |
| Mar 5, 3:11 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bleckley, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Chatham and 29 more | 94 min |
| Mar 5, 4:46 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bleckley, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Chatham and 29 more | 59 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Carolina, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 2005Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2005
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.