Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 5
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jan 7, 1998, 7:45 PM EST for 20 counties in Georgia; 15 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 7, 1998, 7:45 PM EST (00:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 8, 1998, 1:00 AM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties
Burke County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Hart County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Laurens County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Union County, SC
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 8:00 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Anderson, Oconee | 30 min |
| Jan 7, 8:21 PM EST | Tornado Warning | FFC | Oglethorpe | 39 min |
| Jan 7, 8:25 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Elbert | 50 min |
| Jan 7, 10:34 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Anderson, Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 604 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 237 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 10:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch and 23 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 8, 2:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Brantley, Camden, Charlton, Glynn, Liberty and 5 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 1998Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Carolina, 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.