Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches in 2005
Tornado Watch 92
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 26, 2005, 8:45 PM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 26, 2005, 8:45 PM CST (02:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2005, 4:00 AM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 70 counties
Autauga County, AL, Baldwin County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Cullman County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Marion County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Winston County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Bartow County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Polk County, GA, Clarke County, MS, Forrest County, MS, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:45 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
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 8:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 50 min |
| Mar 26, 9:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke, Lauderdale | 55 min |
| Mar 26, 9:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 35 min |
| Mar 26, 9:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Monroe | 25 min |
| Mar 26, 10:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 50 min |
| Mar 26, 10:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke, Lauderdale | 65 min |
| Mar 26, 10:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee | 47 min |
| Mar 26, 10:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 29 min |
| Mar 26, 10:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 34 min |
| Mar 26, 10:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 47 min |
| Mar 27, 12:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 36 min |
| Mar 27, 2:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 32 min |
| Mar 27, 2:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 34 min |
| Mar 27, 2:45 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 2 hr |
| Mar 27, 3:06 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery, Pike | 24 min |
| Mar 27, 3:30 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pike | 18 min |
| Mar 27, 3:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 44 min |
| Mar 27, 3:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock | 25 min |
| Mar 27, 3:54 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Bullock | 2 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 2600 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 78 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WWUS20 KWNS 270244
SEL2
SPC WW 270244
ALZ000-FLZ000-MSZ000-CWZ000-271000-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 92
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
845 PM CST SAT MAR 26 2005
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
MUCH OF ALABAMA
THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE
SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI
COASTAL WATERS
EFFECTIVE THIS SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING FROM 845 PM UNTIL
400 AM CST.
...THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION...
DESTRUCTIVE TORNADOES...LARGE 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 95 STATUTE MILES
EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF GADSDEN ALABAMA
TO 35 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF MOBILE ALABAMA. FOR A COMPLETE
DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU2).
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 87...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 90. WATCH
NUMBER 87 90 WILL NOT BE IN EFFECT AFTER 845 PM CST. CONTINUE...WW
89...WW 91...
DISCUSSION...SUPERCELLS...INCLUDING A FEW WITH POSSIBLE STRONG
TORNADOES...EXPECTED TO FOCUS INVOF WSW/ENE WARM FRONT LIFTING N
THROUGH SRN/CNTRL AL. OTHER CELLS MAY PERSIST WITHIN WARM
SECTOR...AND N OF FRONT...WHERE AMPLE SHEAR/INSTABILITY WILL EXIST
FOR HAIL/HIGH WIND AND ISOLATED TORNADOES.
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
341,0844 301,0862 301,0893 341,0880SPC 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, 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 27, 4:55 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 22 more | 7 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 |
| Mar 26, 8:35 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Amite, Attala, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw and 38 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 26, 9:18 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bolivar, Coahoma, Quitman, Sunflower, Tunica, Washington | 57 min |
| Mar 26, 11:32 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Attala, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw and 31 more | 58 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.