Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Watches in 2005
Tornado Watch 617
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jul 7, 2005, 3:10 AM EDT for 13 counties in Georgia; 14 counties in North Carolina; 14 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 2005, 3:10 AM EDT (07:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2005, 8:54 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 41 counties
Banks County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hart County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Madison County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Cabarrus County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Davie County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Union County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:12 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
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 5:23 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Hart | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 5:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | FFC | Madison | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 6:41 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 37 min |
| Jul 7, 7:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Greenville | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 8:05 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Anderson | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 8:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Iredell | 67 min |
| Jul 7, 8:32 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Pickens | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 8:40 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Anderson | 33 min |
| Jul 7, 8:45 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Iredell | 45 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 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 204 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1642 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WWUS20 KWNS 070711
SEL7
SPC WW 070711
GAZ000-NCZ000-SCZ000-071400-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 617
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
310 AM EDT THU JUL 7 2005
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
NORTHEAST GEORGIA
WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA
EFFECTIVE THIS THURSDAY MORNING FROM 310 AM UNTIL 1000 AM EDT.
TORNADOES...HAIL TO 0.5 INCH IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.
THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 50 STATUTE MILES
NORTH AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF ATHENS
GEORGIA TO 30 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF CHARLOTTE NORTH CAROLINA.
FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH
OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU7).
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.
OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 616...
DISCUSSION...ISOLATED SUPERCELLS EXPECTED TO PERSIST IN ERN QUADRANT
OF REMNANT CIRCULATION OF T.C. CINDY THROUGH LATER THIS MORNING AS
SYSTEM CONTINUE NE ALONG THE ERN SLOPES OF THE SRN APLCNS. WIND
FIELD IN NRN SC /PER GSP VWP/ HAS BECOME MORE FAVORABLE FOR LOW
LEVEL STORM ROTATION IN THE PAST 2 HRS AS LOW LEVEL WIND MAX
ASSOCIATED WITH CINDY HAS BEGUN TO OVERSPREAD REGION. COUPLED WITH
HIGH SURFACE DEWPOINTS...AND POSSIBLY SOME DEGREE OF TOPOGRAPHIC
FORCING...SETUP MAY SUPPORT ISOLATED TORNADOES.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 0.5 INCH. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 400.
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 25025.
...CORFIDI
345,0833 360,0802 343,0802 332,0833SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 10:53 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butts, Carroll, Chattahoochee, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb and 30 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 1:47 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts and 65 more | 28 min |
| Jul 7, 5:44 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banks, Clarke, Elbert, Franklin, Habersham, Hart and 7 more | 91 min |
| Jul 7, 8:43 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Elbert, Glascock, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond and 3 more | 32 min |
| Jul 7, 9:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Alexander, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Caswell and 27 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 7, 12:33 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Caswell, Catawba, Cleveland and 15 more | 117 min |
| Jul 7, 1:17 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bertie, Chowan, Dare, Edgecombe, Halifax, Hertford and 8 more | 88 min |
| Jul 7, 2:05 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe and 14 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 7, 3:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Cabarrus, Caswell, Chatham, Davidson, Davie and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 7, 4:47 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Halifax, Northampton | 118 min |
| Jul 7, 6:01 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Chatham, Chowan, Currituck, Dare and 20 more | 59 min |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in North Carolina, 2005Tornado Watches in South Carolina, 2005Tornado Watches in Georgia, 2005Every tornado watch in 2005
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.