Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 80
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 25, 2005, 8:55 AM EST for 9 counties in Georgia; Beaufort County, Jasper County, South Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 25, 2005, 8:55 AM EST (13:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2005, 3:00 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Candler County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Evans County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Beaufort County, SC, Jasper County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 1183 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 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 25, 2:55 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks and 25 more | 95 min |
| Mar 25, 5:35 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 31 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 25, 8:05 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 36 more | 85 min |
| Mar 25, 8:48 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Chatham, Effingham, Evans, Screven | 27 min |
| Mar 25, 11:22 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans and 5 more | 113 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.