Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 191
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 8, 1998, 7:00 PM EDT for 41 counties in North Carolina; 15 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 8, 1998, 7:00 PM EDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 9, 1998, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 56 counties
Alamance County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Davie County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Gates County, NC, Granville County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Orange County, NC, Person County, NC, Polk County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Brunswick County, VA, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Emporia, VA, City of Franklin, VA, City of Hampton, VA, City of Norfolk, VA, City of Portsmouth, VA, City of Suffolk, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, Greensville County, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA, Lunenburg County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA, Southampton County, VA, Sussex County, VA
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 8:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Lunenburg, Mecklenburg | 34 min |
| Apr 8, 8:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick | 47 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 347 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 712 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 304 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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 8, 2:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 7:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Jackson and 6 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 1998Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Virginia, 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.