Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 90
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 26, 2005, 6:05 PM CST for 29 counties in Alabama; Floyd County, Haralson County, Polk County, Georgia. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 26, 2005, 6:05 PM CST (00:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2005, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 32 counties
Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Cullman County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Marion County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL, Floyd County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Polk County, GA
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:06 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.
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 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 2600 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 78 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 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 26, 8:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler and 44 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 26, 9:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston, Lee and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 26, 10:43 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Chilton and 24 more | 62 min |
| Mar 27, 1:14 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock and 50 more | 91 min |
| Mar 27, 2:27 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh and 13 more | 63 min |
| Mar 27, 3:27 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw, Clarke, Greene, Hale, Lamar, Marengo and 5 more | 33 min |
| Mar 27, 3:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 27, 6:53 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Coffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva, Henry and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 27, 9:08 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Covington, Geneva, Houston | 37 min |
| Mar 27, 9:35 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 27, 11:06 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Calhoun, Cherokee and 33 more | 54 min |
| Mar 27, 11:40 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 25 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 27, 2:24 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Chilton and 23 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 27, 4:55 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 22 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 26, 11:05 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brantley, Camden, Charlton, Glynn, Ware | 5 hr |
| Mar 27, 12:13 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 35 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 27, 2:55 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atkinson, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Calhoun, Coffee and 22 more | 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.