Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches in 2005
Tornado Watch 100
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 27, 2005, 4:55 PM CST for 28 counties in Alabama; 19 counties in Florida; 110 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 2005, 4:55 PM CST (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2005, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 157 counties
Barbour County, AL, Blount County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Dale County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Lee County, AL, Macon County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Washington County, FL, Atkinson County, GA, Baker County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Butts County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, Decatur County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Early County, GA, Echols County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Grady County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Murray County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Schley County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Towns County, GA, Troup County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Union County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walker County, GA, Walton County, GA, Webster County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:56 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
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 5:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattooga, Walker | 40 min |
| Mar 27, 6:01 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Chambers, Lee, Macon, Montgomery, Tallapoosa | 119 min |
| Mar 27, 6:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard, Troup | 23 min |
| Mar 27, 7:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta | 34 min |
| Mar 27, 7:51 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Houston, Peach | 6 hr |
| Mar 27, 8:15 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Sumter | 6 hr |
| Mar 27, 9:42 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Fulton | 6 hr |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 58 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
- 615 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 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, 6:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Chilton and 23 more | 3 hr |
| 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 26, 11:05 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Columbia, Duval, Nassau, Union | 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.