Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 65
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 22, 2005, 9:15 AM CST for 29 counties in Alabama; 35 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 2005, 9:15 AM CST (15:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2005, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 64 counties
Autauga County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lee County, AL, Macon County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Bibb County, GA, Butts County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Schley County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Troup County, GA, Upson County, GA, Webster County, GA
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:18 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
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 9:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby, Talladega | 44 min |
| Mar 22, 9:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga | 43 min |
| Mar 22, 9:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 54 min |
| Mar 22, 9:41 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga | 34 min |
| Mar 22, 9:54 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour, Russell | 36 min |
| Mar 22, 10:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 24 min |
| Mar 22, 10:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 26 min |
| Mar 22, 11:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb | 24 min |
| Mar 22, 11:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Meriwether, Pike | 30 min |
| Mar 22, 12:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 22 min |
| Mar 22, 12:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee | 32 min |
| Mar 22, 12:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Harris, Muscogee | 30 min |
| Mar 22, 12:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fulton | 35 min |
| Mar 22, 1:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fayette | 26 min |
| Mar 22, 1:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 29 min |
| Mar 22, 1:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Rockdale | 36 min |
| Mar 22, 2:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Henry | 27 min |
| Mar 22, 2:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Butts | 30 min |
| Mar 22, 2:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Newton | 32 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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 39 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
- 978 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 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 22, 6:55 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Dallas and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 22, 7:38 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale and 5 more | 67 min |
| Mar 22, 7:40 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Crenshaw, Dale, Geneva and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 22, 8:49 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 30 more | 26 min |
| Mar 22, 9:44 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 8 more | 61 min |
| Mar 22, 12:51 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Coffee, Covington, Crenshaw and 8 more | 54 min |
| Mar 22, 1:20 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Henry, Houston | 7 hr |
| Mar 22, 3:43 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw, Greene, Sumter, Washington | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 4:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Marion and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 22, 9:38 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atkinson, Brantley, Camden, Charlton, Clinch, Glynn and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 10:05 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Camden, Charlton, Clinch and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 22, 10:54 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Baldwin, Bleckley, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke and 34 more | 36 min |
| Mar 22, 12:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appling, Baldwin, Bleckley, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke and 36 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 22, 1:37 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Berrien, Brantley, Camden and 13 more | 83 min |
| Mar 22, 2:05 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Butts, Carroll, Chattahoochee, Clayton, Coweta and 32 more | 25 min |
| Mar 22, 3:41 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Camden, Charlton and 8 more | 34 min |
| Mar 22, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Brantley, Bryan and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 22, 5:10 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brantley, Bryan, Camden, Charlton, Clinch, Echols and 7 more | 95 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.