Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 46
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 7, 2005, 8:50 PM EST for 84 counties in Georgia; Aiken County, South Carolina. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 2005, 8:50 PM EST (01:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2005, 4:00 AM EST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 85 counties
Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baker County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Butts County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Candler County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Harris County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Long County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Pike County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Schley County, GA, Screven County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Troup County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA, Aiken County, SC
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 9:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Troup | 44 min |
| Mar 7, 9:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Early, Miller | 165 days |
| Mar 7, 9:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether | 46 min |
| Mar 8, 2:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston, Peach | 20 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
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 238 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
- 170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 262 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 7:03 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brooks, Decatur, Echols, Grady, Lowndes, Seminole and 1 more | 117 min |
| Mar 7, 8:11 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Butts, Calhoun, Carroll, Chattahoochee, Clay and 38 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 7, 9:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brooks, Clinch, Decatur, Echols, Grady, Lanier and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 7, 11:02 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brooks, Clinch, Echols, Grady, Lanier, Lowndes and 1 more | 88 min |
| Mar 7, 11:21 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill and 54 more | 84 min |
| Mar 8, 2:58 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 40 more | 62 min |
| Mar 8, 8:22 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berkeley, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Darlington, Dillon, Dorchester and 8 more | 23 min |
| Mar 8, 8:35 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Darlington, Dillon, Florence and 7 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South 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.