Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 81
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 25, 2005, 12:05 PM EST for 25 counties in Florida. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 25, 2005, 12:05 PM EST (17:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2005, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties
Brevard County, FL, Charlotte County, FL, Citrus County, FL, DeSoto County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Glades County, FL, Hardee County, FL, Hernando County, FL, Highlands County, FL, Hillsborough County, FL, Indian River County, FL, Lake County, FL, Levy County, FL, Manatee County, FL, Marion County, FL, Martin County, FL, Okeechobee County, FL, Orange County, FL, Osceola County, FL, Pasco County, FL, Polk County, FL, Saint Lucie County, FL, Seminole County, FL, Sumter County, FL, Volusia County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:06 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
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 12:13 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Flagler | 47 min |
| Mar 25, 12:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Marion, Putnam | 45 min |
| Mar 25, 12:39 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Volusia | 51 min |
| Mar 25, 12:58 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Flagler | 17 min |
| Mar 25, 1:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Flagler | 45 min |
| Mar 25, 1:30 PM EST | Tornado Warning | MLB | Volusia | 47 min |
| Mar 25, 1:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Volusia | 60 min |
| Mar 25, 1:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 63 min |
| Mar 25, 2:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Martin | 42 min |
| Mar 25, 2:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 63 min |
| Mar 25, 3:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Lake | 40 min |
| Mar 25, 3:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Orange, Seminole | 63 min |
| Mar 25, 4:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard | 51 min |
| Mar 25, 4:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Seminole | 54 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
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 2323 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 599 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.3
- Supercell composite
- 10.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 11:26 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Liberty, Okaloosa, Taylor and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 25, 2:55 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bay, Bradford, Brevard, Calhoun and 39 more | 95 min |
| Mar 25, 5:35 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bay, Bradford, Calhoun, Clay and 26 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 25, 8:05 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bay, Bradford, Calhoun, Citrus and 34 more | 85 min |
| Mar 25, 11:07 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Citrus, Dixie, Gilchrist, Lafayette, Levy and 2 more | 113 min |
| Mar 25, 3:14 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brevard, Lake, Martin, Orange, Seminole, Sumter | 2 hr |
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.