Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 155
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 3, 1998, 10:15 AM CST for Russell County, Alabama; 73 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 1998, 10:15 AM CST (16:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 1998, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 74 counties
Russell County, AL, Appling County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Burke County, GA, Butts County, GA, Candler County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Schley County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Troup County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA
Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 12:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Hancock, Putnam | 52 min |
| Apr 3, 12:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Glascock, Warren | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 1:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Baldwin, Washington | 54 min |
| Apr 3, 1:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 44 min |
| Apr 3, 1:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Washington | 36 min |
| Apr 3, 2:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Jefferson | 36 min |
| Apr 3, 2:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Emanuel | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 2:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Jenkins | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 2:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Burke | 24 min |
| Apr 3, 2:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Russell | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 2:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Jenkins | 30 min |
| Apr 3, 2:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Douglas, Fulton | 26 min |
| Apr 3, 2:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Russell | 47 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 7:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun and 45 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 1:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Cherokee, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah, Jackson and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Russell | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 5:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fannin, Gilmer, Rabun, Towns, Union | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 1998Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Alabama, 1998Every severe thunderstorm watch in 1998
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.