Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches in 2005
Tornado Watch 89
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 26, 2005, 6:20 PM EST for 15 counties in Florida; 66 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 26, 2005, 6:20 PM EST (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2005, 10:00 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 81 counties
Alachua County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Dixie County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Union County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Echols County, GA, Grady County, GA, Harris County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Schley County, GA, Seminole 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, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Troup County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Ware County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA
Warnings issued inside it
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 6:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lafayette, Taylor | 43 min |
| Mar 26, 6:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp | 24 min |
| Mar 26, 7:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crisp | 13 min |
| Mar 26, 7:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Chattahoochee | 25 min |
| Mar 26, 7:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Early, Seminole | 26 min |
| Mar 26, 7:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pulaski | 33 min |
| Mar 26, 8:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Seminole | 30 min |
| Mar 26, 8:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden | 37 min |
| Mar 26, 9:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady | 47 min |
| Mar 26, 9:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Liberty | 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
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 469 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 668 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WWUS20 KWNS 262317
SEL9
SPC WW 262317
FLZ000-GAZ000-CWZ000-270300-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 89...RESENT
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
620 PM EST SAT MAR 26 2005
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
NORTHERN FLORIDA
CENTRAL AND SOUTH GEORGIA
COASTAL WATERS
EFFECTIVE THIS SATURDAY EVENING FROM 620 PM UNTIL 1000 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 115 STATUTE
MILES NORTH AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 55 MILES WEST OF ALBANY
GEORGIA TO 15 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF WAYCROSS GEORGIA. FOR A
COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE
UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU9).
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 87...WW 88...
DISCUSSION...SLIGHTLY ELEVATED SUPERCELLS DEVELOPING ALONG
NWD-MOVING WARM FRONT/BOUNDARY LAYER MOISTURE SURGE EXPECTED TO
PERSIST AND SPREAD E/NEWD FROM SRN AL AND THE WRN FL PANHANDLE INTO
WW THROUGH THE EVENING. COMBINATION OF SLOWLY INCREASING LOW TO
DEEP LEVEL SHEAR...COUPLED WITH INCREASING MOISTURE SUPPLY...MAY
COMPENSATE FOR DIURNAL COOLING TO MAINTAIN/EXTEND SEVERE THREAT INTO
WATCH AREA.
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 24035.
...CORFIDI
331,0850 324,0821 292,0821 295,0850SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 6:37 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bay, Bradford, Calhoun, Citrus and 38 more | 113 min |
| Mar 26, 10:07 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bay, Bradford, Calhoun, Citrus and 33 more | 113 min |
| Mar 26, 10:40 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bay, Bradford, Calhoun, Clay and 28 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 26, 2:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 26, 5:51 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gadsden, Hamilton, Jackson, Jefferson, Leon, Madison and 2 more | 54 min |
| Mar 26, 2:50 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Bacon, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Bibb, Bleckley and 75 more | 115 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.