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Tornado Watch 70
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 22, 2005, 5:00 PM EST for 14 counties in Florida; 20 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 2005, 5:00 PM EST (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2005, 11:00 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties
Alachua County, FL, Baker County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Clay County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Duval County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Putnam County, FL, Saint Johns County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Union County, FL, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Camden County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Echols County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 5:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Ware | 56 min |
| Mar 22, 5:12 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JAX | Ware | 48 min |
| Mar 22, 5:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty | 42 min |
| Mar 22, 5:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Duval, Saint Johns | 38 min |
| Mar 22, 5:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Brantley, Charlton | 67 min |
| Mar 22, 5:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Clay, Putnam | 50 min |
| Mar 22, 6:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Hamilton | 53 min |
| Mar 22, 6:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Camden, Glynn | 50 min |
| Mar 22, 6:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Saint Johns | 29 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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 381 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 569 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WWUS20 KWNS 222158
SEL0
SPC WW 222158
FLZ000-GAZ000-CWZ000-230400-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 70
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
500 PM EST TUE MAR 22 2005
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
NORTHEAST FLORIDA
SOUTHEAST GEORGIA
COASTAL WATERS
EFFECTIVE THIS TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 500 PM UNTIL
1100 PM EST.
TORNADOES...HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.
THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 85 STATUTE MILES
NORTH AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 65 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAYCROSS
GEORGIA TO 20 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF BRUNSWICK GEORGIA. FOR A
COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE
UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU0).
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...THIS TORNADO WATCH REPLACES TORNADO
WATCH NUMBER 66. WATCH NUMBER 66 WILL NOT BE IN EFFECT AFTER 500
PM EST. CONTINUE...WW 67...WW 68...WW 69...
DISCUSSION...THREAT FOR TORNADIC SUPERCELLS WILL PERSIST FOR THE
NEXT FEW HOURS AS STORMS MOVE EWD ACROSS S/SE GA...AND NEW
CONVECTION DEVELOPS ALONG THE WARM FRONT AND SEA BREEZE BOUNDARIES
ACROSS NE FL.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500.
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 26030.
...THOMPSON
314,0830 320,0811 293,0811 292,0830SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 7:55 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 6 hr |
| Mar 22, 8:38 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson and 7 more | 67 min |
| Mar 22, 8:40 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 22, 10:38 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 10:44 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 61 min |
| Mar 22, 11:05 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 22, 1:51 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 11 more | 54 min |
| Mar 22, 2:20 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson, Jefferson, Lafayette and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 22, 2:37 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie and 15 more | 83 min |
| Mar 22, 4:41 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 9 more | 34 min |
| Mar 22, 6:10 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 6 more | 95 min |
| Mar 22, 9:49 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Chattahoochee, Haralson, Harris, Heard, Muscogee and 2 more | 26 min |
| Mar 22, 10:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bibb, Butts, Carroll, Chattahoochee, Clayton, Coweta and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 22, 11:54 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Baldwin, Bleckley, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke and 34 more | 36 min |
| Mar 22, 1:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appling, Baldwin, Bleckley, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke and 36 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 22, 3:05 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Butts, Carroll, Chattahoochee, Clayton, Coweta and 32 more | 25 min |
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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.