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Tornado Watch 28
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 5, 2025, 12:26 PM EST for 38 counties in North Carolina; 18 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 2025, 12:26 PM EST (17:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 2025, 7:32 PM EST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 56 counties
Beaufort County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Camden County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Craven County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Dare County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gates County, NC, Greene County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Nash County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Washington County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Emporia, VA, City of Franklin, VA, City of Hampton, VA, City of Newport News, VA, City of Norfolk, VA, City of Poquoson, VA, City of Portsmouth, VA, City of Suffolk, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, City of Williamsburg, VA, Greensville County, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA, James City County, VA, Southampton County, VA, Surry County, VA, Sussex County, VA, York County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:24 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
27 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 12:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Halifax, Vance, Warren | 39 min |
| Mar 5, 1:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Harnett, Johnston, Nash, Wake | 56 min |
| Mar 5, 1:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Greensville, Sussex | 38 min |
| Mar 5, 1:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Halifax, Warren | 64 min |
| Mar 5, 1:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash | 71 min |
| Mar 5, 1:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Henrico, James City, King and Queen and 8 more | 47 min |
| Mar 5, 1:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Johnston, Wayne, Wilson | 72 min |
| Mar 5, 1:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Northampton | 50 min |
| Mar 5, 2:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin, Lenoir | 39 min |
| Mar 5, 2:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Greene, Lenoir, Martin, Pitt | 63 min |
| Mar 5, 2:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Hertford, Northampton | 43 min |
| Mar 5, 2:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash | 64 min |
| Mar 5, 2:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Duplin, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow | 63 min |
| Mar 5, 2:44 PM EST | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Southampton, Surry, Sussex | 31 min |
| Mar 5, 2:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Wilson | 51 min |
| Mar 5, 3:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Gates, Hertford | 55 min |
| Mar 5, 3:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Craven, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Martin and 1 more | 74 min |
| Mar 5, 3:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Charles City, Gloucester, James City, King and Queen, King William, Lancaster and 5 more | 48 min |
| Mar 5, 3:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Gates, Hertford, Northampton | 46 min |
| Mar 5, 3:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Jones, Onslow, Pamlico | 75 min |
| Mar 5, 3:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Hampton, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth, City of Suffolk, City of Virginia Beach | 43 min |
| Mar 5, 4:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Chowan, Gates, Hertford, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 42 min |
| Mar 5, 4:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford, Pasquotank | 43 min |
| Mar 5, 5:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Carteret, Dare, Hyde, Pamlico | 75 min |
| Mar 5, 5:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Pasquotank, Perquimans | 44 min |
| Mar 5, 5:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Hampton, City of Newport News, City of Norfolk, City of Poquoson, City of Portsmouth and 2 more | 42 min |
| Mar 5, 6:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare, Hyde | 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
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 840 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 300 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 351 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 7:22 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anson, Bladen, Cabarrus, Chatham, Columbus, Cumberland and 15 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 5, 7:47 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Bladen, Brunswick, Cabarrus, Caswell and 42 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 5, 10:35 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden and 48 more | 85 min |
| Mar 5, 2:23 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret and 29 more | 97 min |
| Mar 5, 4:30 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 10 more | 90 min |
| Mar 5, 8:50 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Amelia, Appomattox, Brunswick, Buckingham, Campbell, Charles City and 24 more | 115 min |
| Mar 5, 10:27 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Accomack, Amelia, Brunswick, Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield and 34 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 5, 1:02 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Accomack, Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, Essex, Gloucester and 19 more | 88 min |
| Mar 5, 2:19 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Augusta, Clarke, Frederick, Greene, Highland, Madison and 9 more | 116 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.