Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 76
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 23, 2005, 5:25 PM EST for 41 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 23, 2005, 5:25 PM EST (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2005, 11:00 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 41 counties
Alamance County, NC, Beaufort County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Camden County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Dare County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gates County, NC, Granville County, NC, Greene County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Lee County, NC, Martin County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Orange County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Person County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Washington County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:28 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
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 5:33 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Guilford | 57 min |
| Mar 23, 6:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Camden, Currituck | 181 days |
| Mar 23, 8:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Bertie | 181 days |
| Mar 23, 9:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Washington | 35 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 456 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 381 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 518 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 23, 11:41 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Avery, Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood and 6 more | 64 min |
| Mar 23, 12:42 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden and 48 more | 93 min |
| Mar 23, 4:50 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Cabarrus, Camden and 60 more | 55 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.