Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 539
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 10, 1998, 2:00 PM EDT for 58 counties in Georgia; 16 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 1998, 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 74 counties
Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Butts County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Hart County, GA, Henry County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Madison County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Murray County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Union County, GA, Walker County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Saluda County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:02 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 2:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield | 42 min |
| Jun 10, 2:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 39 min |
| Jun 10, 2:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson | 43 min |
| Jun 10, 2:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Catoosa, Whitfield | 32 min |
| Jun 10, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dade, Walker | 48 min |
| Jun 10, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dawson, Lumpkin | 33 min |
| Jun 10, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Pickens | 33 min |
| Jun 10, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | McCormick | 37 min |
| Jun 10, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield | 49 min |
| Jun 10, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Barnwell | 39 min |
| Jun 10, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington, Saluda | 48 min |
| Jun 10, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richmond | 52 min |
| Jun 10, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Newton, Rockdale | 31 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 1817 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 698 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dade | 5 hr |
| Jun 10, 8:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aiken, Berkeley, Calhoun, Charleston, Cherokee, Chester and 27 more | 6 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.