Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 67
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 22, 2005, 1:20 PM EST for 42 counties in Georgia; 10 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 2005, 1:20 PM EST (18:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2005, 8:00 PM EST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 52 counties
Appling County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Candler County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam 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, Wilkinson County, GA, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Beaufort County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Jasper County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:22 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
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 1:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Emanuel, Montgomery, Toombs | 54 min |
| Mar 22, 1:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Candler | 61 min |
| Mar 22, 2:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch | 50 min |
| Mar 22, 2:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Bacon, Jeff Davis | 63 min |
| Mar 22, 3:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling | 56 min |
| Mar 22, 3:28 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Appling | 47 min |
| Mar 22, 3:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan | 33 min |
| Mar 22, 4:58 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Long, McIntosh | 62 min |
| Mar 22, 5:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty | 42 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 859 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 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, 8:38 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay, Colquitt and 18 more | 67 min |
| Mar 22, 8:40 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 22, 9:49 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Chattahoochee, Haralson, Harris, Heard, Muscogee and 2 more | 26 min |
| Mar 22, 10:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bibb, Butts, Carroll, Chattahoochee, Clayton, Coweta and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 22, 10:38 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atkinson, Brantley, Camden, Charlton, Clinch, Glynn and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 11:05 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Camden, Charlton, Clinch and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 22, 11:54 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Baldwin, Bleckley, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke and 34 more | 36 min |
| Mar 22, 1:51 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 22 more | 54 min |
| Mar 22, 2:20 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay, Colquitt and 14 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 22, 2:37 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Berrien, Brantley, Camden and 13 more | 83 min |
| Mar 22, 3:05 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Butts, Carroll, Chattahoochee, Clayton, Coweta and 32 more | 25 min |
| Mar 22, 4:41 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Camden, Charlton and 8 more | 34 min |
| Mar 22, 5:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Brantley, Bryan and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 22, 6:10 PM EST | 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.