Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 48
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 8, 2005, 8:35 AM EST for 44 counties in North Carolina; 13 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 8, 2005, 8:35 AM EST (13:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2005, 1:00 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 57 counties
Alamance County, NC, Anson County, NC, Beaufort County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Craven County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Dare County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Greene County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Orange County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pender County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Wake County, NC, Washington County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Calhoun County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Florence County, SC, Horry County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lee County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:35 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
25 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 8:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw | 22 min |
| Mar 8, 8:52 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Orange | 23 min |
| Mar 8, 8:53 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Lee, Moore | 100 min |
| Mar 8, 9:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Hoke, Scotland | 98 min |
| Mar 8, 9:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 42 min |
| Mar 8, 9:23 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin | 37 min |
| Mar 8, 9:26 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett | 49 min |
| Mar 8, 9:27 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 33 min |
| Mar 8, 9:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen, Columbus, Robeson | 52 min |
| Mar 8, 9:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen, Columbus, Robeson | 52 min |
| Mar 8, 9:44 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Sampson | 49 min |
| Mar 8, 10:04 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Nash | 26 min |
| Mar 8, 10:06 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender | 54 min |
| Mar 8, 10:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 52 min |
| Mar 8, 10:13 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wilson | 32 min |
| Mar 8, 10:25 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe | 35 min |
| Mar 8, 10:27 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wayne | 33 min |
| Mar 8, 10:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven, Jones, Onslow | 45 min |
| Mar 8, 10:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender | 20 min |
| Mar 8, 11:07 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pitt | 23 min |
| Mar 8, 11:09 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Washington | 51 min |
| Mar 8, 11:19 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Carteret | 56 min |
| Mar 8, 11:25 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Hyde, Pamlico, Tyrrell | 65 min |
| Mar 8, 11:27 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Craven, Jones, Onslow | 33 min |
| Mar 8, 11:58 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare, Hyde | 62 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
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 556 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 318 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 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 8, 8:22 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Chatham and 43 more | 23 min |
| Mar 8, 11:24 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 14 more | 96 min |
| Mar 7, 8:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aiken | 7 hr |
| Mar 8, 2:58 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston and 9 more | 62 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.