Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 4
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jan 7, 1998, 4:00 PM EST for 10 counties in Florida; 82 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 7, 1998, 4:00 PM EST (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 7, 1998, 10:00 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 92 counties
Columbia County, FL, Dixie County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Leon County, FL, Madison County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Atkinson County, GA, Baker County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Butts County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Echols County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Grady County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Hall County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Macon County, GA, Madison County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Pike County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Schley County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walton County, GA, Webster 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 4:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Crawford | 32 min |
| Jan 7, 5:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Monroe | 30 min |
| Jan 7, 5:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jasper, Jones | 34 min |
| Jan 7, 5:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bibb | 33 min |
| Jan 7, 6:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Morgan, Putnam | 30 min |
| Jan 7, 6:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 30 min |
| Jan 7, 6:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Jones | 27 min |
| Jan 7, 7:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene | 27 min |
| Jan 7, 9:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair | 20 min |
| Jan 7, 9:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Laurens | 21 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 198 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 536 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 5:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 6 hr |
| Jan 7, 10:15 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 8 more | 6 hr |
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.