Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 50
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 14, 2005, 1:40 PM EST for 46 counties in Georgia; Beaufort County, Jasper County, South Carolina. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 14, 2005, 1:40 PM EST (18:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2005, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 48 counties
Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Camden County, GA, Candler County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Echols County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Turner County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Beaufort County, SC, Jasper County, SC
Warnings issued inside it
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 2:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Brooks, Lowndes | 159 days |
| Mar 14, 3:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Effingham | 37 min |
| Mar 14, 3:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clinch | 51 min |
| Mar 14, 3:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clinch, Echols | 54 min |
| Mar 14, 3:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Ware | 31 min |
| Mar 14, 4:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Charlton | 52 min |
| Mar 14, 4:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Camden | 57 min |
| Mar 14, 5:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lowndes | 167 days |
| Mar 14, 5:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lanier, Lowndes | 168 days |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 169 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 682 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 1:05 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley and 38 more | 115 min |
| Mar 14, 4:51 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks and 24 more | 114 min |
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.