Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches in 2005
Tornado Watch 74
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 23, 2005, 12:35 AM CST for Chambers County, Lee County, Randolph County, Alabama; 35 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 23, 2005, 12:35 AM CST (06:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2005, 8:00 AM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 38 counties
Chambers County, AL, Lee County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Baldwin County, GA, Butts County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Coweta County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Pike County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Troup County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, Wilkes County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:39 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
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 12:37 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Randolph | 38 min |
| Mar 23, 12:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers | 51 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 14 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
- 454 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 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 230637
SEL4
SPC WW 230637
ALZ000-GAZ000-231400-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 74...RESENT
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
135 AM EST WED MAR 23 2005
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
FAR EAST-CENTRAL ALABAMA
NORTHERN AND CENTRAL GEORGIA
EFFECTIVE THIS WEDNESDAY MORNING FROM 135 AM UNTIL 900 AM EST.
TORNADOES...HAIL TO 1.5 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 35 STATUTE MILES
NORTH AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF AUBURN
ALABAMA TO 55 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF ATHENS GEORGIA. FOR A
COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE
UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU4).
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 72...WW 73...
DISCUSSION...SURFACE WARM FRONT IS BECOMING BETTER DEFINED ACROSS
NRN GA FROM JUST SOUTH OF AHN TO FFC. PRESSURE FALL MAXIMA IS
APPARENT ALONG THIS BOUNDARY...SUGGESTING MESO LOW MAY FORM ALONG
NEWD MOVING SQUALL LINE MOVING INTO FAR ERN AL AT 06Z. AS THIS
ACTIVITY SHIFTS ENEWD OVERNIGHT...ENHANCED LIFT AND SHEAR NEAR THE
FRONT/MESO LOW WILL ENHANCE TORNADO THREAT JUST NORTH AND NORTHEAST
OF TORNADO WATCH 73.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 1.5 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE
WIND GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO
400. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 23035.
...EVANS
333,0853 340,0822 330,0822 322,0853SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 6:09 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke and 22 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 6:50 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw and 26 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 22, 7:47 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Marion and 1 more | 88 min |
| Mar 22, 9:36 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler and 49 more | 84 min |
| Mar 22, 10:11 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | DeKalb, Jackson, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Morgan | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 11:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Coffee, Coosa and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 22, 11:37 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Coffee and 19 more | 83 min |
| Mar 23, 1:27 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw and 27 more | 63 min |
| Mar 23, 2:11 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Coffee, Coosa, Covington and 13 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 6:24 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chatham | 36 min |
| Mar 22, 7:39 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Decatur, Grady and 8 more | 36 min |
| Mar 23, 1:35 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brooks, Decatur, Grady, Lowndes, Seminole, Thomas | 85 min |
| Mar 23, 3:16 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bleckley and 36 more | 89 min |
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.